| توضیحات روی اسکناس |
Central oval vignette of a busy harbour scene with sailing vessels, small rowing boats, and a quayside building complex in the background, rendered in fine engraving. The bank title MAURITIUS COMMERCIAL BANK arcs across the upper portion in bold letterpress, flanked by the word TWENTY repeated at upper left and upper right within decorative cartouches. The denomination TWENTY DOLLARS / FOUR POUNDS STERLING appears in large script at centre, with manuscript date 1839 and serial number repeated twice, above handwritten signatures of the Director and Cashier. |
| نوشتههای روی اسکناس |
TWENTY MAURITIUS COMMERCIAL BANK TWENTY PROMISE TO PAY TO THE BEARER ON DEMAND THE SUM OF TWENTY DOLLARS FOUR POUNDS STERLING COLONIAL CURRENCY VALUE RECEIVED FOR THE MAURITIUS COMMERCIAL BANKING COMPANY |
| توضیحات پشت اسکناس |
وارد شوید برای مشاهده جزئیات |
| نوشتههای پشت اسکناس |
وارد شوید برای مشاهده جزئیات |
| امضا(ها) |
وارد شوید برای مشاهده جزئیات |
| نوع ویژگی امنیتی |
وارد شوید برای مشاهده جزئیات |
| توضیحات ویژگی امنیتی |
وارد شوید برای مشاهده جزئیات |
| گونهها |
وارد شوید برای مشاهده جزئیات |
The Mauritius Commercial Bank was founded in 1838 — the first commercial bank established in Mauritius — and this note dates from just its second year of operation. Private banknotes of this period from Indian Ocean colonial territories are genuinely rare; most circulated hard and were redeemed or destroyed as British imperial banking institutions gradually consolidated note-issuing authority on the island through the latter half of the nineteenth century.
Surviving 1839 MCB notes are among the earliest private paper money from sub-Saharan African colonial issuers in any major reference collection.