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5 Baht / 5 Ticals The Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China
| Issuer | The Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China |
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| Year | 1898-1899 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Light lilac and green note with a central royal coat of arms vignette flanked by the denomination numerals "Tcs.5" at upper left and right, with Chinese and Thai script legends running vertically along both side borders. The main text field carries the full English promise-to-pay inscription in letterpress, with Bangkok named as the place of issue and the date written by hand. Two manuscript signatures appear at lower centre alongside printed role designations, with a lower guilloche panel bearing the word "BANGKOK" in bold lettering. |
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| Reverse description | Uniface green reverse printed entirely in letterpress within a decorative guilloche border with floral corner ornaments. The Thai text promise-to-pay inscription is arranged in multiple centred lines across the face of the note, with the denomination numeral "๕" repeated at each of the four corners. A circular handstamp impression is visible at lower right. |
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The Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China maintained a Bangkok branch from 1894, operating in direct competition with the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation for foreign trade finance in Siam. These 5 Baht / 5 Tical notes — the dual denomination reflecting the transitional equivalence between the two terms then in official use — were issued under the private bank note-issuing privileges that foreign banks briefly held in Siam before the government moved to consolidate currency authority.
That consolidation came quickly. The Ministry of Finance began aggressively curtailing private foreign bank issuance after 1902, making the window for this series extremely narrow. Surviving examples are correspondingly rare.