10 Dollars Asiatic Banking Corporation

The Asiatic Banking Corporation was a London-registered institution that operated briefly in the 1860s across eastern trade ports. It collapsed in 1866 during the London credit crisis triggered by the failure of Overend, Gurney & Company — a banking panic that brought down numerous overseas finance houses simultaneously. Notes issued in the years immediately before that collapse, like this one, were effectively rendered worthless at the point of failure, which makes surviving examples genuinely uncommon rather than simply old.

Pick S75 is catalogued in the specialized rather than general sequence, reflecting its private bank status rather than any question of legitimacy at the time of issue.