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5 Dollars
| Issuer | Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation |
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| Year | 1893 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | $5 PENANG THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION Promise to pay the Bearer on demand at its office here FIVE DOLLARS Local Currency for Value received. By Order of the Board of Directors |
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| Reverse lettering | 5 THE HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION |
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The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation's 1890s dollar notes were printed by Metchim & Son, a London trade printer with a modest profile compared to the major security firms of the period — unusual for a bank of HSBC's regional weight, which had previously used more established engravers. Whether this reflects a cost decision or a supply arrangement is not documented in the bank's surviving correspondence from that decade.
Notes from this series are rare in any grade. HSBC maintained branches across a network of treaty ports where humidity and heavy daily use destroyed paper quickly.