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100 Rupees - Specimen Travellers Cheque - Syndicate Bank
| Issuer | Syndicate Bank |
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| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Light brown cheque printed in blue-grey with a guilloche vignette at left enclosing a cat vignette, and a circular guilloche denomination panel at right reading Rs 100. The bank name appears in both Devanagari script and Roman lettering at centre, with bilingual text fields for payee, countersignature, and negotiability terms. SPECIMEN overprinted in red across the lower centre. |
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| Obverse lettering | सिंडिकेट बैंक यात्री चेक SYNDICATE BANK TRAVELLERS CHEQUE WHEN COUNTERSIGNED BELOW WITH THIS SIGNATURE FNo. 0000000 19 Before cashing write here place and date प्रधान कार्यालय मणिपाल 576 119 कर्नाटक (भारत) HEAD OFFICE, MANIPAL 576 119, Karnataka INDIA इस चेक का Pay this cheque to the order of के आदेश पर भुगतान करें भारत में IN INDIA | अन्य देशों में IN OTHER COUNTRIES एक सौ रुपये RUPEES ONE HUNDRED | Negotiable at the current buying rate for bankers' cheques on INDIA SPECIMEN अदाकर्ता के समक्ष यहाँ प्रतिहस्ताक्षर करें COUNTERSIGN HERE IN THE PRESENCE OF PERSON CASHING अध्यक्ष तथा प्रबंध निदेशक Chairman and Managing Director जब तक अन्यथा पृष्ठांकित न हो, यह दस्तावेज़ केवल भारत में विधिमान्य और परक्राम्य है। UNLESS OTHERWISE ENDORSED, THIS DOCUMENT IS VALID AND NEGOTIABLE IN INDIA ONLY |
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Syndicate Bank was one of the "Canara" group of banks founded in coastal Karnataka — established in Udupi in 1925, originally as Canara Industrial and Banking Syndicate. By the time travellers cheques of this type were issued, the bank had been nationalised under India's 1969 banking nationalisation wave, which brought fourteen major private banks into state ownership in a single legislative stroke.
Specimen travellers cheques were produced for training, demonstration, and regulatory approval purposes and were never valid for encashment. The SPECIMEN overprint renders this piece formally inert, which is precisely what makes surviving examples collectible — most were pulped once their administrative purpose was served.