Catalog
1 Pound
| Issuer | Commercial Bank of Tasmania |
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| Year | ND (1910) |
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| Reference(s) | P#A104 |
| Obverse description | Pale lilac note with "HOBART" printed vertically at both left and right margins. Upper centre bears the bank title "The Commercial Bank of Tasmania Limited" in curved script above the text "AUSTRALIAN NOTE". A small vignette of a standing figure appears at upper left, with a guilloche oval bearing "ONE" at upper right. Serial number and "ONE POUND" denomination appear in the lower register alongside manuscript and printed signatures. |
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| Reverse description | Plain uncoloured reverse with a simple rectangular border enclosing a central panel bearing the large bold denomination "ONE" in block lettering. Four ornate guilloche ovals, each containing a horizontal bar, are placed at each corner of the composition. |
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The Commercial Bank of Tasmania was absorbed into the Bank of Australasia in 1921, making any surviving notes from its final decade of independent operation genuinely scarce. The bank had operated since 1823 — one of the oldest colonial banking institutions in Australia — but its note-issuing activity was already in steep decline by 1910 as Commonwealth banking regulation tightened following federation.
The undated designation reflects standard practice for Australian trading bank notes of this period, where precise issue dates were not printed on the face. Most examples that survived did so in archives rather than through circulation.