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| Uitgever | Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, London and China |
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| Jaar | 1870 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Opschrift voorzijde | CEYLON BRANCH රුපියල් සියයයි நூறு ரூபாய் 100 RUPEES INCORPORATED BY ROYAL CHARTER COLOMBO, 1st Jany. 1870 THE CHARTERED MERCANTILE BANK OF INDIA, LONDON & CHINA Promises to pay the Bearer on demand here ONE HUNDRED RUPEES, value received. By order of the Court of Directors, Entd. ACCOUNTT. MANAGER PERKINS, BACON & Co, LONDON. (Translation: One hundred rupees.) |
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| Varianten | Specimen |
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The Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, London and China was established by royal charter in 1853, primarily to finance the Indo-Chinese opium and cotton trades. By 1870, its network ran from Bombay to Shanghai, and notes like this one circulated across multiple British colonial ports simultaneously — legally payable in rupees but practically useful wherever the bank maintained an agency.
Perkins, Bacon & Co. held long-standing relationships with colonial banking institutions throughout this period, their steel-engraved intaglio work being considered sufficiently difficult to counterfeit for circulation in markets with limited access to anti-forgery expertise. The Chartered Mercantile Bank was absorbed into the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China in 1892, ending the issuing authority entirely.