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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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| Currency | Baht / Tical (1869-1897) |
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| Obverse lettering | Décrets des 21 Janvier 1875 et du 20 Février 1888 BANQUE DE L'INDO-CHINE BANGKOK, le 1ᵉʳ Août 1898. One Hundred Ticals to be paid on demand to bearer Cent Ticaux payables en espèces au porteur Le caissier de l'Agence, Le Directeur, Un Administrateur, 100 100 A. BRAMTOT & G. DUVAL FEC. J. ROBERT SC |
| 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. |
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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.