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Oriental Bank Corporation, £5, Port Elizabeth, 1 July 1874, serial number A14129, two manuscript signatures, split and rejoined with tape, original and quite presentable, very good and exceptionally rare, this being only the second confirmed example known, and the only in private hands, a remarkable find
Pick S113, Hern 327 £5,000-£7,000

The Oriental Bank was established it’s South African presence in 1873, in Port Elizabeth, absorbing the Port Elizabeth Bank, Queenstown Bank, South African Central Bank, Eastern Province Bank and the Fauresmith Bank. It lasted only 6 years under this trading name before carrying on as the Bank of Africa in 1879.