20 Dollars

Issuer	Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China
Year	1875
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Value	20 Dollars
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Obverse lettering	$20 INCORPORATED BY ROYAL CHARTER PENANG THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA & CHINA Promises to pay the Bearer on Demand at its OFFICE here Twenty Dollars in Local Currency for Value received. BY ORDER OF THE COURT OF DIRECTORS SPECIMEN
Reverse description	Printed entirely in green, the reverse presents a densely ornamented guilloche design with the bank name arranged in a central oval cartouche surrounding a smaller lozenge vignette inscribed TWENTY. The word TWENTY is repeated in each corner and along the lateral margins in large letters, with numeral 20 in all four corners. Small vignettes of an elephant and a bull appear within circular medallions on the left and right margins respectively, and a crowned medallion is set at the upper centre. The border is composed of interlocking geometric lathe-work typical of the period's security printing.
Reverse lettering	20 TWENTY THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA AUSTRALIA AND CHINA SPECIMEN
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