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Auction: CSS78D - The Numismatic Collectors' Series sale - Hong Kong and World Banknotes and Coins
Lot: 5832

The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, $100, remainder note, 1.3.1896, serial number 48796, red and pale blue, the back orange, fresh and unmarked, a lovely specimen.

The central panel reading 'Promises to pay the Bearer on demand at its Office here One Hundred Dollars or the equivalent in the Currency of the Island, value received.'

Perforated "Cancelled" vertically four times.

Printed on unwatermarked banknote paper, by Barclay & Fry, London.

This note shows the border designs of the post-1893 style, with a bolder pattern and the 'M' points facing up; with the printed signature of Jackson, the Chief Manager,

(Pick 147br), PMG 63 Choice Uncirculated (Perforated Cancelled, Previously Mounted). No issued example of the 1865 to 1899 types is believed to exist in private hands and the only other specimen note the cataloguer has seen does not have a printed serial number. The only example known and in lovely conditon!


1896年香港上海匯豐銀行100元，庫存票，編號48796，如出新廠，無標注，中央有”Promises to pay the Bearer on demand at its Office here One Hundred Dollars or the equivalent in the Currency of the Island, value received”字樣，四度垂直打孔注銷，印於倫敦Barclay & Fry廠之無水印鈔票紙上，PMG 63，打孔注銷，有黏貼痕跡，1865-1899年版別相信一直落入私人集藏中，未有公開流通，編者亦只曾遇過一次同版別之樣票，而該樣票未有印上編號，本品相信存世無雙，加上頂尖品相，萬勿錯過!

Estimate
HK$500,000 to HK$750,000

Starting price
HK$500000