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5 Baht / 5 Ticals Banque de l'Indo-Chine
| Issuer | Banque de l'Indo-Chine |
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| Year | 1898 |
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| Engraver(s) | Auguste-Hilaire Léveillé |
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| Obverse lettering | BANQUE DE L'INDO-CHINE 5 Décrets du 21 Janvier 1875 et du 20 Février 1888 BANGKOK, le 22 Décembre 1898. FIVE TICALS TO BE PAID ON DEMAND TO BEARER CINQ TICAUX PAYABLE EN ESPÈCES AU PORTEUR Un Administrateur : Le Directeur : DANIEL DUPUIS ET GEORGES DUVAL FEC LEVEILLE SC |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in green on cream paper and is oriented in a landscape format, with large Chinese characters 行銀國法 (Banque de l'Indo-Chine) dominating the upper centre, beneath which the Thai transliteration บางก์ เดอ ลินโดชิน์ appears. Vertical panels on both left and right margins carry the denomination in Chinese (暹銀伍銖) and Thai script, while the central field contains a promise-to-pay clause in Thai and, in the lateral borders, the French penal code warning against counterfeiting. Corner numerals in Thai (๕) and Chinese (五) mark all four angles within a guilloche frame incorporating stylised dragon motifs. |
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The Banque de l'Indo-Chine was chartered in Paris in 1875 with the exclusive privilege of note issue across French Indochina, and this 1898 Siamese branch issue is one of its most geographically specific products — denominated in both Baht and Ticals to serve a border commerce that French colonial administration could not fully contain within its own currency system. The dual denomination was a concession to Siamese monetary reality, not a clerical overlap.
Dupuis was one of the foremost medallists of the Paris Mint; Léveillé's intaglio work for this series is among the finer engraving coming out of French colonial note production in the 1890s.