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5 Pounds Kandy; Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, London and China
| Issuer | Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, London and China |
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| Year | 1864-1869 |
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| Printer | Perkins, Bacon & Co., London, United Kingdom |
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| Obverse description | Green letterpress print with red-brown underprint. British Royal Arms vignette at top centre, flanked by ornamental rosettes and the word FIVE in large letters on either side. A large intaglio FIVE POUNDS underprint fills the centre, with the promise-to-pay text and branch details in script above. |
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| Reverse description | Printed entirely in green, the reverse is dominated by an elaborate guilloche composition centred on an oval medallion, flanked by two large circular lathe-work rosettes bearing the numeral 5. The printer's imprint appears at the lower margin. |
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| Variants | Specimen |
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