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100 Dollars
| Issuer | Chartered Bank of India, Australia & China |
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| Year | 1934-1956 |
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| Value | 100 Dollars |
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| Obverse description | Green and brown multicolour note with a central intaglio vignette of Britannia seated with a lion, enclosed in an oval guilloche frame. The bank title THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA & CHINA arcs across the upper portion, with the denomination 100 rendered in large numerals at left and right. Chinese characters appear in the upper corners and along the borders, with the place of issue HONG KONG and promise-to-pay text completing the design. |
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| Reverse description | Printed entirely in green, the reverse carries a detailed architectural vignette of a grand colonial building with a domed roof, set within an expansive plaza with figures and a monument in the foreground and distant hills beyond. Four serial number panels appear at each corner, flanked on the right by a vertical row of five circular medallions containing symbolic vignettes. A large decorative blank cartouche occupies the left side, and Chinese characters for the denomination are placed at the lower right. |
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The Chartered Bank of India, Australia & China operated under a Royal Charter dating to 1853, which granted it the right to issue notes across its eastern branch network — a privilege that distinguished it sharply from ordinary commercial banks operating in the same territories. By the 1930s, Hong Kong remained the primary market for notes of this denomination, where the dollar unit had displaced the older Mex dollar reckoning.
Waterlow & Sons produced this series through a period that encompassed Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, during which Chartered Bank notes were suppressed and Japanese military currency imposed. Notes printed before 1941 but surviving that occupation carry an unusual provenance — either withdrawn before the fall or preserved outside the colony entirely.