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20 Dollars American Express Travelers Cheque
| Issuer | American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc. |
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| Year | 1993 |
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| Size | 158 x 70 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | U.S. DOLLAR TRAVELERS CHEQUE U.S. $20 WHEN COUNTERSIGNED BELOW WITH ONE OF THESE TWO SIGNATURES American Express Travelers Cheque Cheques for Two ISSUED BY AMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVEL RELATED SERVICES COMPANY, INC. NEW YORK, N.Y. Pay this Cheque to the Order of IN UNITED STATES TWENTY DOLLARS IN ALL OTHER COUNTRIES NEGOTIABLE AT CURRENT BUYING RATE FOR BANKERS CHEQUES ON NEW YORK COUNTERSIGN HERE IN PRESENCE OF PERSON CASHING THOMAS DE LA RUE AND COMPANY LIMITED |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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American Express had been issuing travelers cheques since 1891, making it one of the longest-running continuous instruments of its kind in financial history. By 1993, the product was deep into a slow decline — credit card acceptance had expanded dramatically through the late 1980s, and the cheque's core advantage, universal merchant recognition without a bank account, was eroding fast. De La Rue's involvement here is unsurprising; they had printed for AmEx across multiple series and denominations for decades, with security production handled at their Gateshead and later Dunstable facilities.
The watermark remains the primary anti-counterfeiting feature on this issue — relatively modest by later standards.