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100 Baht / 100 Ticals Banque de l'Indo-Chine
| Issuer | Banque de l'Indo-Chine |
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| Year | 1898 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in red on cream paper, with the entire surface covered by a dense, intricate guilloche underprint of floral and scrollwork motifs. The denomination and bank name appear in four languages — Thai, Chinese, and French — arranged in rectangular panels at the top and bottom. A central oval text panel carries the Thai-language promise to pay, flanked by vertical Chinese column inscriptions reading 暹銀佰銖, with the numeral ๑๐๐ and the Arabic numeral 100 at each corner. |
| Reverse lettering | ๑๐๐ 佰 BANQUE DE L'INDO-CHINE บางก์ เดอ ลินโดชิน์ 行 銀 國 法 暹銀佰銖 暹銀佰銖 ร้อย บาท ร้อย บาท สัญญา ว่า เมื่อ ท่าน ผู้ หนึ่ง ใด ได้ นำ หนังสือ ฉบับ นี้ มา ยื่น ต่อ ห้าง เรา ที่ อยู่ ใน เมือง นี้ แล้ว เรา ก็ จะ ใช้ เงิน ให้ แก่ ผู้ นั้น ใน ทัน ใด เปน เงิน สยาม ร้อยบาท ถ้วน L'article 139 du Code Pénal punit des travaux forcés à perpé- tuité ceux qui auront contrefait ou falsifié les Billets de banques autorisées par la loi, ainsi que ceux qui auront fait usage de ces Billets contrefaits ou falsi- fiés, ceux qui les auront in- troduits sur le territoire fran- çais seront punis de la même peine CENT TICAUX BANQUE DE L'INDO-CHINE 行 銀 國 法 บางก์ เดอ ลินโดชิน์ 唂 網 กรุงเทพ ฯ 佰 ๑๐๐ |
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The Banque de l'Indo-Chine was a private concession bank, chartered in Paris in 1875 with the right to issue currency across French colonial territories in Southeast Asia. This note circulates both a denomination in Baht and in Ticals — a deliberate dual-naming to facilitate acceptance across Siam's commercial sphere and the Mekong territories, where French and Siamese economic interests overlapped uneasily in the late 1890s.
Bramtot was a Prix de Rome laureate; his involvement, alongside engraver Charles-Jules Robert, places this note firmly within the Imprimerie nationale's production orbit. Robert's intaglio work for colonial currency of this period is among the finest produced for any issuing authority operating east of Suez.