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10 Shillings
| Issuer | Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, London & China, Colombo |
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| Year | 1864-1869 |
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| Currency | Pound sterling (1694-date) |
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| Obverse description | Pale olive-green and grey note with a central royal coat of arms vignette supported by two lions and inscribed 'INCORPORATED BY ROYAL CHARTER', flanked by oval letterpress panels bearing the denomination 'TEN SHILLINGS'. The heading 'CEYLON BRANCH' runs in bold uppercase across the top, with bilingual Sinhala and Tamil inscriptions in the upper corners and lower border. The body text, rendered in copperplate script, carries the promise to pay the bearer on demand at the Colombo branch in the currency of the island, authorised 'By order of the Court of Directors', with a diagonal 'SPECIMEN' overprint in the lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | CEYLON BRANCH THE CHARTERED MERCANTILE BANK of INDIA, LONDON & CHINA INCORPORATED BY ROYAL CHARTER TEN SHILLINGS Promises to pay the Bearer on demand at its Branch in COLOMBO in the Currency of the Island TEN SHILLINGS Value received. By order of the Court of Directors SPECIMEN Rupees Five Pound Half Half Pound |
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| Reverse lettering | TEN SHILLINGS Perkins Bacon & Co. London, Statue, Southwark, Print. Plate. |
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