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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scottishmoney, post: 455337, member: 12789&quot;]This is just a plain very lovely note, so red and so well printed by Thomas De La Rue:</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center"><img src="http://www.geocities.com/scottishmoney/banknotes/hongkong/hongkongmercantile1001974dtl.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p> <p style="text-align: center"><img src="http://www.geocities.com/scottishmoney/banknotes/hongkong/hongkongmercantile1001974.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left"><b>Mercantile Bank Ltd. was opened beginning in 1853 in Bombay India, but moved it&#039;s headquarters to London in 1858. They opened banks in Hong Kong by 1857 and began issuing banknotes in 1859. This $100 from 1974 marks the last issue of paper money from this bank. The bank was subsequently sold to Citibank in 1984 and then Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi in 1987. Notice again the apparently Caucausian appearance of the feminine vignette on this note.</b></p> </p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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