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10 Dollars
| Issuer | Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation |
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| Year | 1880-1889 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1845-1939) |
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| Obverse lettering | 10 THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION SINGAPORE Promise to pay the Bearer on demand TEN DOLLARS at its office here Local Currency for Value received. BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS Engraved on Steel by Metchim & Son, London E.C. 英商香港上海滙豐銀行 大銀壹拾員 ACCOUNTANT MANAGER |
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| Reverse lettering | 10 THE HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION |
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| Comments |
The Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation's 19th-century notes were printed by several London firms over the decades, and Metchim & Son represents one of the less prominent contractors in that rotation. The firm was primarily known as a printer of legal and commercial stationery rather than a specialist security printer — an unusual choice for a bank of HSBC's regional standing, and one that didn't last long in the contract history.
Surviving examples from this decade are genuinely rare. The bank periodically called in and destroyed unissued stock, and notes that did circulate across Hong Kong and the treaty ports faced a punishing climate.