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5 Baht / 5 Ticals Banque de l'Indo-Chine, Non-overprinted specimen
| Issuer | Banque de l'Indo-Chine |
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| Year | 1898 |
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| Value | 5 Bahts |
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| Obverse description | Green intaglio print on white paper with an ornate guilloche border incorporating East Asian architectural and dragon motifs at the corners. The left half bears a large allegorical vignette in the classical French engraving tradition: a crowned female figure holding a caduceus is seated beside a kneeling Asian woman, rendered in fine line engraving by Léveillé after Dupuis and Duval. The denomination numeral "5" appears at upper left, with bilingual text in English and French — "FIVE TICALS / CINQ TICAUX" — occupying the right half alongside spaces for administrator and director signatures. |
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| Obverse lettering | BANQUE DE L'INDO-CHINE 5 Décrets du 21 Janvier 1875 et du 20 Février 1888 BANGKOK, le 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. A LEVEILLE SC. |
| Reverse description | Green intaglio and letterpress print on white paper, entirely without a central pictorial vignette but filled instead with large Chinese characters arranged in a grid across the centre field, conveying the bank name and denomination in Chinese. A boldly engraved dragon in the classic East Asian style spans the upper register, and a second decorative motif — a stylised pagoda or lantern — anchors the lower register, both set against a dense guilloche and fret-pattern underprint. The French anti-counterfeiting penalty clause appears in two columns flanking the Chinese text, and "$1" denomination indicators are printed at all four corners. |
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