100 Pounds

Issuer	African Banking Corporation Limited, Durban
Year	189x
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Value	100 Pounds
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Obverse description	Pink and black intaglio-printed note with an elaborate engraved border of scrollwork and floral ornaments. At left, a classical allegorical female figure stands beside a recumbent lion, rendered in fine intaglio engraving. The central field carries a pink guilloche underprint with manuscript promise-to-pay text, the denomination ONE HUNDRED POUNDS in a black panel, and the issuing office DURBAN; the heading NATAL appears in a cartouche at top centre, with AFRICAN BANKING CORPORATION LIMITED arched above the central area.
Obverse lettering	NATAL AFRICAN BANKING CORPORATION LIMITED Promise to pay the Bearer on Demand the sum of ONE HUNDRED POUNDS Sterling at their Office here. DURBAN ACCOUNTANT MANAGER ONE HUNDRED POUNDS 100
Reverse description	Uniformly printed in deep rose-red, the reverse is dominated by a large central shield vignette bearing a map of the African continent, set within radiating guilloche lozenges and enclosed by an ornate scalloped border. The denomination 100 / ONE HUNDRED / POUNDS is repeated in bold letterpress at left and right within medallion cartouches. The full corporate title AFRICAN BANKING CORPORATION LIMITED arches across the top and bottom of the design. A SPECIMEN overprint is visible across the central vignette.
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