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5 Dollars The Chartered Bank
| Issuer | The Chartered Bank |
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| Year | 1967 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | INCORPORATED BY ROYAL CHARTER 1853 THE CHARTERED BANK Promises to pay the Bearer on Demand at its Office here FIVE DOLLARS or the equivalent in the Currency of the Colony. VALUE RECEIVED HONG KONG BY ORDER OF THE COURT OF DIRECTORS FIVE 五 頁 THOMAS DE LA RUE & COMPANY LIMITED |
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| Protection description | Warrior's head watermark |
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The Chartered Bank was absorbed into Standard Chartered in 1969, making this 1967 issue one of the final emissions under the old name. Thomas De La Rue handled the printing throughout the bank's Hong Kong note-issuing history, and the relationship was long enough that successive series share strong family resemblances in their engraved linework.
The watermark is the primary security feature — no serial number prefix changes or signature varieties have attracted the same collector attention here as in comparable Hong Kong issues of the period. Pick 69 is among the more quietly scarce pieces from the Chartered Bank's last independent decade.