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100 Dollars
| Issuer | The Chartered Bank |
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| Year | 1956 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse description | Printed in green, the reverse presents a panoramic intaglio vignette of the Hong Kong waterfront and Government House or a colonial civic building with dome, set against a hillside landscape, occupying the central field. THE CHARTERED BANK is inscribed in a curved banner at the top, with ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS along the lower border and large Chinese characters 壹百 at lower right. Decorative circular medallions containing maritime and wildlife vignettes are arranged vertically along the right margin, and a large blank cartouche occupies the left side, consistent with the note's design for overprinting or control purposes. |
| Reverse lettering | THE CHARTERED BANK ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS 壹百 |
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The Chartered Bank — formally the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China — issued this denomination for Hong Kong circulation, where it held note-issuing rights alongside HSBC and the Mercantile Bank. By 1956, the $100 was the largest denomination in everyday use, making it both commercially essential and a natural target for forgery. Waterlow & Sons had printed colonial and imperial currency for decades, and their intaglio work on this series is among the more technically accomplished British colonial output of the postwar period.
The bank lost its separate identity when it merged with the Standard Bank of South Africa in 1969 to form Standard Chartered, ending over a century of independent note issue.