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100 Rupees Oriental Bank Corporation
| Issuer | Oriental Bank Corporation |
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| Year | 1876 |
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| Currency | Rupee (1871-1972) |
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| Obverse description | Green and blue tint on white paper with an ornate guilloche border; the British Royal Arms vignette centred at top, flanked by the denomination numeral '100' in bold letterpress at left and right. Sinhalese and Tamil scripts appear in the upper corners, with the issuer name and promise-to-pay text in copperplate script across the lower portion. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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The Oriental Bank Corporation, chartered in 1851 under a British Crown license, was one of the great exchange banks of the Victorian empire — and one of the most spectacular failures. It collapsed in May 1884, suspended payments, and was formally wound up shortly after, leaving creditors across India, Ceylon, and the Far East with significant losses. A note dated 1876 places it in the bank's final decade, when overexposure to Ceylon coffee planters hit hard after blight devastated that industry.
Perkins, Bacon & Petch were the gold standard for intaglio security printing in this period, with anti-forgery engraving techniques refined over decades of banknote and stamp production.