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100 Dollars

Uitgever Union Bank of Calcutta, Singapore Branch
Jaar 1840-1849
Type Standard circulation banknote
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Beschrijving voorzijde Engraved note with a thick ornamental border enclosing the text field; numeral and denomination value in each corner, with vertical side panels reading ONE HUNDRED SPANISH DOLLARS in letterpress. Central text area carries a manuscript-style promise-to-pay legend above signature lines for Cashier and Agent.
Opschrift voorzijde 100
SINGAPORE BRANCH
OF THE
UNION BANK OF CALCUTTA
Promise to pay the
Bearer on demand the sum of
ONE HUNDRED SPANISH DOLLARS
184_ Singapore
For the TRUSTEES of the UNION BANK
Cashier Entd.
Agent
ONE HUNDRED SPANISH DOLLARS
PAYABLE AT SINGAPORE
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The Union Bank of Calcutta operated in Singapore under the Presidency banking framework, one of several British-chartered institutions competing for the Straits trade business during the 1840s. Its Singapore branch issued notes locally denominated in dollars — the Spanish and later Mexican dollar being the dominant trade currency of the port — rather than in rupees, a deliberate concession to the commercial realities of a market that ran on Chinese, Malay, and European exchange simultaneously.

Smith, Elder & Co. were primarily a London publishing house that maintained a sideline in financial printing — an unusual combination that reflects how undifferentiated security printing was as a specialist trade before firms like Perkins Bacon and De La Rue consolidated the field later in the century.