Banque Industrielle de Chine, China, specimen $500, Tientsin, 1914, serial number 0001-1000, purple and pink and green and orange, value at left and right, bank initials top centre, ornamental lion low left and right, reverse purple, grey and orange-brown, ornate gateway top centre, value at left and right(Pick S400C for similar, Smith-Matravers C254-6), ink date 24.5.18 in top margin,mounting traces at left otherwise a fresh and original good extremely fine and extremely rare, a lovely note