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100 Dollars
| Issuer | Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation |
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| Year | 1909 |
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| Value | 100 Dollars |
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| Obverse description | Brown and red intaglio-printed note with Chinese characters running along the top and side borders reading 香港上海滙豐銀行. Two finely engraved vignettes flank the central text area: at left, a scene of figures beside a rustic structure, and at right, an industrial or harbour scene with machinery and vessels. The bank's name in large bold letterpress occupies the upper centre, below which a promise-to-pay clause and the denomination ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS are set within a guilloche underprint, dated HONGKONG, 1st January, 1909, with a signature line reading By Order of the BOARD of DIRECTORS. |
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| Obverse lettering | 香港上海滙豐銀行 THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION Promise to pay the Bearer on demand at its Office here ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS or the equivalent in the currency of the Colony. VALUE RECEIVED. HONGKONG, 1st January, 1909. By Order of the BOARD of DIRECTORS. CHIEF ACCOUNTANT CHIEF MANAGER ONE HUNDRED 100 壹百圓 港壹 |
| Reverse description | Printed in red and black, the reverse is dominated by a central oval intaglio vignette of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation's imposing neoclassical headquarters building, framed by palm trees and pedestrians on the street below. An elaborate guilloche pattern in red fills the entire field, with the bank's name split across the top and bottom in bold lettering, and the denomination 100 / DOLLARS repeated in large numerals on either side of the central vignette. Chinese script panels appear in the upper corners. |
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