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500 Dollars Mercantile Bank of India

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Issuer Hong Kong (China)
Issuing bank Mercantile Bank of India
King George VI (1936-1952)
Type Standard circulation banknotes
Year 1948
Value 500 Dollars
500 HKD = USD 64
Currency Dollar (1863-date)
Composition Paper
Shape Rectangular
Issued 1948
Number
N#
557241
References P# 241
Standard Catalog of World Paper Money (10 volumes).

Obverse

Mercury at right

Lettering:
香港有利银行
The Mercantile Bank of India Limited
Promises to pay the Bearer on demand at its Office here
500
Five Hundred Dollars
or the Equivalent in the Currency of the Island
Value Received
Hong Kong, 24th August 1948
員佰伍

Translation:
Hong Kong Mercantile Bank
Five Hundred Yuan

Reverse

Gateway

Lettering:
The Mercantile Bank of India Limited
Five Hundred Dollars
員佰伍

Translation: Five Hundred Yuan

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
1948-Aug-24 

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