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5 Dollars
| Uitgever | Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, London and China |
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| Jaar | 1885-1886 |
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| Valuta | Dollar (1845-1939) |
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| Opschrift voorzijde | 5 DOLLARS INCORPORATED BY ROYAL CHARTER SINGAPORE 1st May 1885 THE CHARTERED MERCANTILE BANK OF INDIA, LONDON & CHINA Promise to pay the Bearer on Demand at its Branch in SINGAPORE in Local Currency, the sum of FIVE DOLLARS Value received. By order of the Court of Directors |
| Beschrijving keerzijde | Printed in black intaglio on plain paper. A large central oval guilloche medallion is flanked symmetrically by two smaller quatrefoil rosette medallions each bearing the numeral "5", with foliate ornaments connecting them. The composition is entirely geometric lathe-work with no pictorial vignette; the printer's imprint "Perkins, Bacon & Co. London" appears in small text below centre. |
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| Opmerkingen |
The Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, London and China was one of the British exchange banks operating under Royal Charter in the eastern trade corridors, and its Hong Kong branch issued notes like this one to service the substantial volume of silver-based commerce moving between the colony, the treaty ports, and London. The bank was absorbed into the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation in 1892, which makes this mid-1880s window the final years of independent issue.
Perkins, Bacon produced plates of exceptional intaglio quality — their anti-counterfeiting work was among the best available in the period, a deliberate choice for a note that circulated in markets where forgery of foreign bank paper was a persistent problem.