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5 Dollars The Chartered Bank
| Issuer | The Chartered Bank |
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| Year | 1967 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Orange and purple intaglio-printed note with a dense guilloche border incorporating Chinese characters and the numeral 5 at each corner; the bank title is set within a curved ribbon banner at top centre, flanked by small circular key vignettes. The Chartered Bank coat of arms with the motto PARTES PER EOAS occupies the lower left, while the denomination FIVE DOLLARS is rendered in large bold letterpress at centre above the promise-to-pay text and the issuing authority line BY ORDER OF THE COURT OF DIRECTORS. Two manuscript signatures appear at the foot of the note, captioned ACCOUNTANT and MANAGER respectively. |
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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.