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100 Dollars British Guiana Bank
| Issuer | British Guiana Bank |
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| Year | 1900 |
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| Currency | British Guiana Dollar (1837-1965) |
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| Obverse description | Printed entirely in black ink, the obverse bears the bank title in elaborate copperplate script across the top, flanked by the denomination $100 at each upper corner. To the left, an oval intaglio vignette within a ornate foliate border depicts a seated allegorical figure with a crown above. The promise-to-pay text runs across the centre in script, with the denomination repeated in a bold decorative lozenge-shaped guilloche panel at lower left, and signature lines for Manager, Director, and Accountant below, with a perforated SPECIMEN cancellation across the lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | $100 British Guiana Bank $100 19__ Demerara 19__ We Promise to pay the Bearer on Demand ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS One Hundred For the Corporation of the British Guiana Bank, MANAGER. DIRECTOR. ACCOUNTᵀ. ONE HUNDRED |
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The British Guiana Bank was a short-lived commercial institution, and by 1900 it was already in its final years before being absorbed into the consolidating colonial banking structure of the region. Perkins, Bacon & Co. had long-standing experience producing security documents for British colonial issuers — their intaglio work appears on postage stamps and banknotes across the Empire — but a $100 denomination for a small colonial bank in Georgetown represents a high-value instrument with a very narrow probable circulation.
The perforated cancellation on surviving examples confirms these were formally withdrawn rather than worn out, which is typical of high-denomination colonial notes redeemed but not destroyed outright.