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Auction: CSS51 - The Numismatic Collectors' Series sale
Lot: 605

The Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China, $5, 16.2.1863, serial number 6090, Hand-signed by the Bank Manager and Accountant. Stamped "Cancelled" at left and right centre. Exceptionally rare and important. With two original internal memos prepared as a record at the time by the Chartered Bank. The first memo states this note was part of a file of late redemption Chartered Bank notes sent to London from Hong Kong and from Singapore. The file was pulled from the Bank's London records during a Second World War paper drive. A paper sorter saved these old documents, along with other curiosities that caught her eye such as colourful restaurant menus, and such. In 1995 these five first series Chartered Bank notes were consigned by her (by now) elderly daughter to a London auction house, who must have had the shock of her life when she received the post-sale auction report. *This is the second oldest Chartered Bank issued note issued known for Hong Kong, the earliest being a $10 dated 1st December 1862. It predates by five years the earliest surviving issued note of the Hong Kong & Shanghai Banking Corporation dated 1867, and only one (Chartered) Mercantile note dated 1858 precedes it. *Together with the note is an original document, partly printed and part handwritten, which reads: [Printed:] "Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China. MEMO. Hong Kong, [Manuscript:] "24th Mar 1881." [Manuscript:] "$5 Note No. 6090. This note is not marked off the Branch Register as Cancelled, because the space is filled up by the date (19/2/75) of a note returned to London. Unless the correct number of note cancelled on 19/2/75 be obtained the register must remain as it is." *The second original document reads: [Manuscript:] "Hongkong $5 note, No. 6090, part of 5000 Nos 5000/10,000, shipped 1st Nov 1862. Two other notes of same numbers have been supplied but with prefix letters AM & FS respty." (Pick 21a), PMG 10 Very Good (Stamp Cancelled). One of only two notes known (the other being dated 1865) and thus ultra rare, as well as of exceptional importance.
1863年印度新金山中國渣打銀行5元，編號6090，經銀行經理及會計師手簽兩遍，左中及右中加蓋注銷，極度稀有，以下有兩項相關事件的備忘文本： 本票連同銀行其他二戰文本檔案被棄置，回收紙分類員保存了這幾份文件，當中不乏引人注目的紙雜，如色彩繽紛的餐廳菜單 1995年，分類員的大女兒賣出這批紙雜 *本票是香港第二古老的渣打銀行紙鈔版別，最早的版別是1862年10元 *本票夾附一份原始文檔，內容半手寫半印刷： [印刷]印度新金山中國渣打銀行。備忘錄。 香港 [手寫]“ 1881年3月24日。$ 5紙鈔，編號6090。本鈔未在分行登記冊上標記為「已注銷」，相關位置填上了本票退回倫敦的日期（19/2/75）。除非得知於19/2/75注銷的鈔票數量，否則登記冊必須保持原來記錄。 “香港5元，編號6090，編號5000 / 10,000中的其中一枚，於1862年11月1日進行船運。另外兩枚紙鈔亦有相同編號，但字軌為AM和FS。”

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HK$780,000

Starting price
HK$300000