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10 Rupees Oriental Bank Corporation
| Issuer | Oriental Bank Corporation |
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| Year | 1866-1877 |
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| Currency | Rupee (1871-1972) |
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| Obverse description | Black intaglio print on plain paper. The British royal coat of arms with lion and unicorn supporters is positioned at upper centre, flanked by two oval vignettes each inscribed TEN RUPEES. Dense guilloche border frames the note, with the issuer's name and promise-to-pay text in letterpress below the arms. |
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| Reverse lettering | Perkins, Bacon & Petch, London. Patent Hardened Steel Plate. |
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The Oriental Bank Corporation was among the earliest British overseas banks to issue notes in multiple Asian territories simultaneously — Mauritius, Ceylon, India, Hong Kong, and elsewhere — yet was chronically overextended. It collapsed spectacularly in 1884, making any notes from the 1866–1877 window survivors of an institution that did not outlive the century.
Perkins, Bacon & Petch were the dominant security printers of the Victorian period, responsible for the first Penny Black stamps. Their intaglio work on colonial bank paper is typically among the most resistant to forgery of anything produced in that era.