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| 正面描述 | Brown and olive note with the heading CEYLON BRANCH at top within a fine guilloche border. The central vignette carries the royal coat of arms with supporters, inscribed INCORPORATED BY ROYAL CHARTER above, flanked by two oval TEN SHILLINGS cartouches with lathe-work surrounds. The denomination and branch name KANDY appear in bold letterpress, with the promise text and value TEN SHILLINGS rendered in italic script. Bilingual legends in Sinhala and Tamil appear along the upper and lower margins, with manuscript spaces for Accountant and Manager signatures; a large SPECIMEN overprint in green is applied diagonally across the face. |
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| 正面铭文 | CEYLON BRANCH INCORPORATED BY ROYAL CHARTER TEN SHILLINGS KANDY THE CHARTERED MERCANTILE BANK OF INDIA, LONDON & CHINA Promises to pay the Bearer on demand at its Branch in KANDY in the Currency of the Island TEN SHILLINGS value received By order of the Court of Directors Ent'd Accountt MANAGER SPECIMEN |
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The Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, London and China was incorporated by Royal Charter in 1853 and expanded aggressively through the 1860s into Ceylon, where the Kandy branch joined Colombo as a point of issue. Perkins Bacon, whose intaglio work and security printing were already well-established through banknote and stamp contracts across the Empire, supplied the printed sheets from London — the branch designation filled in to differentiate Kandy issues from those of other agency offices within the same series.
The bank collapsed in 1892 following bad loans and mismanagement, making surviving notes from any branch genuinely uncommon. Kandy issues are rarer still than Colombo equivalents given the relative size of the branch's business.