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10 Rupees Oriental Bank Corporation
| Issuer | Oriental Bank Corporation |
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| Year | 1881 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | 10 COLOMBO 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. COLOMBO 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 was among the earliest British overseas banks to issue currency in the Indian subcontinent, operating under a royal charter that permitted note issue across several Asian territories. By 1881 the bank was already in serious trouble — it had suffered catastrophic losses on Ceylon coffee plantation loans after the blight of the 1870s wiped out the colony's main crop. The bank collapsed entirely in 1884, just three years after this note was printed, making late-series examples like this one survivors of a very short final window of issue.
Bradbury Wilkinson handled the plates. The liquidation was swift enough that significant quantities of unissued stock were never released.