100 Dollars The Chartered Bank

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.