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1 Baht / 1 Tical The Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China
| Issuer | The Chartered Bank of India, Australia & China |
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| Year | 1898 |
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| Value | 1 Baht |
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| Obverse description | Green and pink letterpress note with an elaborate guilloche border framing the entire face. At upper centre, the Royal Arms vignette is flanked by two oval medallions each bearing the denomination "Tcl 1" in bold script; the legend "INCORPORATED BY ROYAL CHARTER" arcs above the coat of arms with the motto "DIEU ET MON DROIT" below. The bank name and promise-to-pay text in English occupy the central field, with Thai script (เงินสยามหนึ่งบาท) running along the lower border and Chinese characters (暹銀壹銖) printed vertically at left and right margins. Serial number and "BANGKOK" appear at upper left and right, with manuscript signatures of the Accountant and Manager at lower centre. |
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| Obverse lettering | ษารเตอรด์แบงค์ของเมืองอินเดียออซเตรเลียแลเมืองจีน 1 1 INCORPORATED BY ROYAL CHARTER DIEU ET MON DROIT Tcl1 Tcl1 № 1886 № 1886 BANGKOK. THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA AND CHINA, Promises to pay the Bearer on Demand, at its Office here ONE TICAL Local currency, Value received BY ORDER OF THE COURT OF DIRECTORS. ONE BANGKOK 1 1 เงินสยามหนึ่งบาท เงินสยามหนึ่งบาท 銖 壹 銀 暹 銖 壹 銀 暹 |
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The Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China maintained a long commercial presence in Bangkok, and its Thai-currency notes occupied an unusual legal position — private banknotes issued by a British imperial bank circulating in a sovereign kingdom that had not yet established its own central bank. The Siamese government tolerated, and in practice depended on, foreign bank issue well into the early twentieth century.
W.A. Sprague & Co. produced relatively little surviving material compared to contemporaries like Waterlow or Bradbury Wilkinson, which makes their Bangkok-series output of the 1890s among the more infrequently encountered examples of their commercial engraving work.