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25 Dollars

Emittent Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, London and China
Jahr 1887
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Nennwert 25 Dollars
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Vorderseitenbeschreibung Black letterpress and intaglio print on plain paper. The Royal Charter coat of arms with two lion supporters is centred at top, flanked by oval guilloche panels bearing the denomination numeral "25" at left and right. The border incorporates multilingual text in Chinese, Jawi Arabic, and Tamil scripts. Three cancellation punch holes appear at lower centre.
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INCORPORATED BY ROYAL CHARTER
SINGAPORE
14th Feby. 1887
THE CHARTERED MERCANTILE BANK OF INDIA, LONDON & CHINA
Promises to pay the Bearer on Demand
at its Branch in SINGAPORE in Local Currency,
the sum of TWENTY FIVE DOLLARS Value received.
By order of the Court of Directors
Ent.d
ACC.t
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The Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, London and China was one of the so-called "exchange banks" operating under Royal Charter — institutions designed primarily to finance trade flows rather than serve local depositors. By 1887, the bank was heavily concentrated in Hong Kong and the treaty ports, and a 25-dollar note would have moved through commercial transactions denominated in the Hongkong dollar, which itself tracked the Mexican peso silver standard.

Perkins, Bacon & Petch were among the most technically accomplished security printers of the century, their reputation built on steel-plate engraving originally developed to combat American counterfeiting. Notes produced under their process are among the hardest to fake from the period.

The bank was absorbed into the Standard Chartered group in 1958 — surviving notes from this era are genuinely rare in any condition.