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10 Pounds Asiatic Banking Corporation

10 Pounds (Asiatic Banking Corporation) - obverse

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Features

Issuer Sri LankaCeylon (1597-1972)
Issuing bank Asiatic Banking Corporation
Queen Victoria (1837-1901)
Type Banknotes
Year 1865
Value 10 Pounds
Currency Pound (1828-1869)
Composition Paper
Size 205 × 124 mm
Shape Rectangular
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
571719
References P# S104
Standard Catalog of World Paper Money (10 volumes).

Obverse

Black print; violet underprint.

Bank seal at upper centre.

Scripts: Latin, Sinhala, Tamil

Lettering:
යෙසියාතික්බැන්කිඬ්කොර්පොරේෂන්
10
ASIATIC BANKING CORPORATION
TEN POUNDS
THE ASIATIC BANKING CORPORATION
promise to pay the Bearer on Demand
at their Branch in Colombo in the Currency
of the Island TEN POUNDS, value received.
COLOMBO
By order of the Court of Directors.
Entd
Manager
රුපියල්සියයයිපවඬ්දහයයි
நூறுரூபாய் பத்துபவுண்ட்
யெசியதிக் பெங்கிங்கொர்ப்பொறேஷன்

Translation: Asiatic Banking Corporation. Ten pounds. One hundred rupees. Asiatic Banking Corporation.

Reverse

Blank.

Watermark

Curved ASIATIC above curved BANKING CORPORATION.

Printer

Smith, Elder & Co., London, United Kingdom (1824-1895)

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
ND (1865)  Specimen.
1865-Nov-01 

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