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| 表面の銘文 | THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA & CHINA FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS 500 Promises to pay the Bearer on Demand at its Office here HONG KONG OR THE EQUIVALENT IN THE CURRENCY OF THE COLONY - VALUE RECEIVED By Order of the Court of Directors 印度産金新山中國渣打銀行 伍佰員 |
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| 偽造防止の説明 | a male portrait head visible in the unprinted oval area of the obverse. |
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The Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China operated under a Royal Charter that permitted note issuance across its eastern branches, with Hong Kong being the primary circulation point for high-denomination notes like this one. A $500 note was no everyday instrument — at mid-century exchange rates, it represented a substantial commercial sum, moving between trading houses and larger mercantile accounts rather than through retail channels.
Waterlow & Sons produced the plate work to their usual high standard for colonial and imperial bank contracts. The 1934–1952 date span covers wartime interruption: Japanese occupation of Hong Kong from December 1941 halted legitimate circulation entirely, and notes of this series that survived the occupation did so outside normal banking hands.