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1000 Rupees Oriental Bank, Bombay
| Issuer | Oriental Bank |
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| Year | 1842-1849 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | ORIENTAL BANK. Promise to Pay the Bearer on Demand at the bank's office here (and not elsewhere) One Thousand Rupees. Value Received. Nº 302 Bombay By Order Of The Board. ONE THOUSAND RUPEES |
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| Reverse lettering | ORIENTAL 1000 RUPEES BANK |
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The Oriental Bank Corporation — chartered in 1843 but operating under earlier predecessors in Bombay from the late 1830s — was one of the first British overseas banks to issue notes in India, doing so under a system of private banking that preceded the Presidency Banks' eventual dominance. The Bombay branch notes from this period circulated in a commercial environment still navigating the aftermath of the 1840s credit crises that would eventually cripple several exchange banks across the subcontract.
Batho & Bingley, a London security printer working under several successive partnerships during this decade, supplied the printed sheets to Bombay for local completion and issue — a common arrangement that left completion details, signatures, and dates to be added in-branch. At the 1,000 rupee denomination, these were instruments of wholesale trade, not retail currency.