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5 Rupees Galle; Oriental Bank Corporation
| Uitgever | Oriental Bank Corporation |
|---|---|
| Jaar | 1866 |
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| Afmetingen | 146 x 115 mm |
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| Beschrijving keerzijde | Black print on plain paper. A central guilloche pattern forms the primary decorative element, printed by intaglio from a hardened steel plate, surrounded by a uniform border consistent with the obverse frame. |
| Opschrift keerzijde | Perkins, Bacon & Co, London. Patent Hardened Steel Plate. |
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| Opmerkingen |
The Oriental Bank Corporation was chartered in London in 1851 and became one of the dominant exchange banks operating across British colonial Asia. By the 1860s it held a near-monopoly on silver exchange in Ceylon, and its branch notes issued at Galle — then the island's principal port before Colombo eclipsed it — circulated among merchants handling the cinnamon and coffee trades.
Perkins, Bacon & Petch were the foremost security printers of the period, responsible for the first adhesive postage stamps and a significant share of colonial currency work. The bank collapsed in 1884, caught in the wreckage of the Australian land credit crisis, making surviving pre-failure branch notes genuinely uncommon.