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25 Dollars
| Emisor | Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, London and China |
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| Año | 1887 |
| Tipo | Inicie sesión para ver los detalles |
| Valor | 25 Dollars |
| Moneda | Inicie sesión para ver los detalles |
| Composición | Inicie sesión para ver los detalles |
| Tamaño | Inicie sesión para ver los detalles |
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| Descripción del anverso | 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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| Leyenda del anverso | 25 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.