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| 正面铭文 | 10 INCORPORATED BY ROYAL CHARTER Malacca. 1st May, 1886 THE CHARTERED MERCANTILE BANK OF INDIA, LONDON & CHINA Promises to pay the Bearer on Demand at its Branch in MALACCA in Local Currency, the sum of TEN DOLLARS Value received. By order of the Court of Directors Endt. Acct. MANAGER |
| 背面描述 | Printed in blue on plain paper, the reverse is dominated by a large central guilloche composition consisting of an oval lathe-work medallion flanked by a horizontal band of interconnected circular rosettes, each containing fine engine-turned geometric patterns. The numeral '10' appears within the two outermost rosette clusters at left and right. The printer's imprint 'Perkins Bacon & Co. London' is visible in small type beneath the central medallion. |
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The Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, London and China was one of the British exchange banks operating under Royal Charter across Asian treaty ports in the nineteenth century. Its Hong Kong branch issued dollar-denominated notes like this one to service trade finance rather than retail banking — the clientele was predominantly merchant houses settling accounts in silver dollars across the China coast.
Perkins, Bacon & Co. had by this period a long track record printing colonial and imperial currency, their steel-engraved work being difficult to replicate locally. Notes from this series are genuinely scarce; the bank merged into the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China in 1893, and surviving examples from the 1882–1886 window are rarely encountered outside specialist auctions.