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| Emittent | The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation |
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| Jahr | 1889 |
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| Nennwert | 400 Bahts |
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| Vorderseitenlegende | 行 銀 豐 滙 海 上 港 香 暹銀四佰銖 暹銀四佰銖 400 400 เปนเงินสยาม สี่ร้อย เปนเงินสยาม สี่ร้อย ฮองกงและเชียงไฮ้แบงกิงกอปอเรชัน № № THE HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION, BANGKOK, 18 Promises to pay the Bearer on Demand FOUR HUNDRED TICALS Local Currency at its Office here value received BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS. Acc.ᵗ Manager กรุงเทพฯ กรุงเทพฯ BANGKOK. 400 400 Engraved on Steel by Barclay & Fry, London |
| Rückseitenbeschreibung | Printed uniformly in salmon-red on plain paper, the reverse presents a central rectangular panel of Thai text setting out the full promise-to-pay obligation, enclosed within a simple ruled border. The Thai numeral ๔๐๐ appears in all four corners, and the bank's Thai title runs across the head of the note. The layout is entirely typographic, with no pictorial vignette or guilloche underprint. |
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| Anmerkungen |
The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation operated in Bangkok under a royal concession that permitted foreign banks to issue notes denominated in the local tical — an arrangement that would have been unthinkable within a decade, as Siamese financial nationalism gathered force in the 1890s. The 400-tical denomination is unusually high and suggests this note was designed for wholesale trade settlement rather than retail commerce, almost certainly tied to the rice export business that dominated Bangkok's international economy at the time.
Barclay & Fry printed for several colonial and foreign banking clients during this period, working primarily in intaglio. Only a handful of HSBC Bangkok issues from this era are known to survive.