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5 Dollars

Features

Issuer Straits Settlements (British Malaysia)
Issuing bank Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation
Queen Victoria (1837-1901)
Type Banknotes
Year 1894
Value 5 Dollars
Currency Dollar (1845-1939)
Composition Paper
Shape Rectangular
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
571082
References P# S169
Standard Catalog of World Paper Money (10 volumes).

Obverse

Green print; red underprint; black serial numbers.

Coat of arms at centre.

Scripts: Arabic, Chinese, Latin, Tamil

Lettering:
5
THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION
SINGAPORE
1st Jan 1894
Promise to pay the Bearer on demand
FIVE DOLLARS
at its office here Local Currency for Value received.
BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Engraved on steel by Metchim & Son, London.

Reverse

Red print.

Coar of arms at centre.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
5
THE HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI
BANKING CORPORATION

Printer

Metchim & Son, London, United Kingdom

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
1894-Jan-01 

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