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10 Rupees Newera Ellia; Oriental Bank Corporation
| Issuer | Oriental Bank Corporation |
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| Year | 1881 |
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| Value | 10 Rupees |
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| Obverse lettering | 10 NEWERA ELLIA THE ORIENTAL BANK CORPORATION INCORPORATED BY ROYAL CHARTER රුපියල් දහයයි பத்துரூபாய் Promise to pay the Bearer on demand at their Office here TEN RUPEES value received. NEWERA ELLIA , 1st January 1881 By Order of the Court of Directors ENTD. ACCOUNTT. MANAGER. CEYLON BRADBURY WILKINSON & CO ENGRAVERS LONDON (Translation: Ten rupees.) |
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| Reverse lettering | 10 TEN රුපියල් දහයයි பத்துரூபாய் (Translation: Ten rupees.) |
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The Oriental Bank Corporation, chartered in Britain and operating across Asia, collapsed spectacularly in May 1884 — one of the largest bank failures of the Victorian era. Notes issued from its Ceylon branches, including this Newera Ellia piece, became worthless almost overnight. Circulating survivors are rare precisely because the failure was so abrupt; holders had little time to redeem before the doors closed.
Newera Ellia's branch served the hill-country tea and coffee plantation economy. Bradbury Wilkinson printed for several colonial and private banks during this period, and their intaglio work for the OBC series is among the finer private bank printing of the 1880s.