Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
400 Baht / 400 Ticals HSBC
| Issuer | The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation |
|---|---|
| Year | 1889 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Baht / Tical (1869-1897) |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Salmon-red intaglio printing over a pale green guilloche underprint, with the central vignette occupied by the royal arms of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, surmounted by the bilingual English and Thai bank title and the Bangkok office designation below. Serial number boxes are positioned at upper left and right flanking the vignette, the denomination 400 repeated in each corner, and the promise-to-pay legend in English distributed across two ornamental ribbon panels at centre, with the word BANGKOK set in a decorative cartouche at the foot. Chinese characters reading 香港上海滙豐銀行 run along the upper border, while Thai and Chinese denomination inscriptions occupy the side margins; the printer's imprint reads "Engraved on Steel by Barclay & Fry, London." |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | 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 |
| Reverse description | 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. |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments | Log in to see details |