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100 Dollars The Chartered Bank
| Issuer | The Chartered Bank |
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| Year | 1970-1977 |
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| Value | 100 Dollars |
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| Obverse description | At left, a vignette of the bank's headquarters building rendered in intaglio against a red guilloche underprint; at centre, the bank's full heraldic crest in multicolour. The promise-to-pay text, denomination in both English and Chinese characters (壹佰圓), and the date 1ST JANUARY 1977 are printed across the face, with the serial number and two manuscript signatures of the Accountant and Chief Manager in Hong Kong appearing along the lower portion. |
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| Variants | P#76a(1) - not dated P#76a(2) - not dated P#76b - 01.01.1977 |
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The Chartered Bank was a British overseas bank with roots in the 1853 Charter of Incorporation, operating primarily across Asia — Hong Kong, Singapore, India, and the Straits Settlements among its key territories. By the time this note was issued in the early 1970s, the bank had already merged with the Standard Bank of South Africa to form Standard Chartered in 1969, meaning these notes were issued under a name that was already administratively obsolete at the time of printing.
Thomas De La Rue handled the printing throughout the series, as they had for most of the bank's twentieth-century issues. The $100 denomination would have circulated primarily in Hong Kong, where the bank held one of the three note-issuing rights alongside HSBC and the Mercantile Bank.