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| 表面の銘文 | Australian Note The Treasurer of the Commonwealth of Australia promises to pay the Bearer One Pound in gold coin on demand at the Commonwealth Treasury at the seat of government. ASSISTANT SECRETARY SECRETARY TO THE TREASURY |
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| 裏面の銘文 | ONE POUND |
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Australia's first Commonwealth note issue, this series launched in 1910 displaced the private bank notes of institutions like the Bank of New South Wales and the Bank of Australasia, fulfilling a long-standing political ambition to centralise currency control under federal authority. The Commonwealth Bank was not yet established as a central bank in the modern sense — it had only opened in 1912 — so the Treasury effectively managed note issue directly through the Secretary and Assistant Secretary, hence Collins and Allen as signatories rather than a Governor.
The 1914–15 dating corresponds to the first years of wartime pressure on sterling-backed reserves, which made the Commonwealth's monopoly on paper issue politically convenient almost immediately after it was established.