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1 Pound Bank of New Zealand
| Issuer | Bank of New Zealand |
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| Year | 1902-1916 |
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| Value | 1 Pound |
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| Obverse lettering | ONE POUND BANK OF NEW ZEALAND INCORPORATED BY THE ACT OF GENERAL ASSEMBLY ONE ON DEMAND WE PROMISE TO PAY TO THE BEARER ONE POUND STERLING WELLINGTON DAY OF... ONE FOR THE BANK OF NEW ZEALAND ONE POUND |
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| Reverse lettering | BANK OF NEW ZEALAND |
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The Bank of New Zealand, though a private trading bank, occupied a quasi-official role in colonial and early Dominion-era New Zealand — the government held a significant stake and the bank had survived a near-collapse in 1895 only through Crown intervention. Notes from this series were issued across branches in both New Zealand and, crucially, London, creating parallel circulation that complicates provenance today.
Bradbury Wilkinson's engraved plates for this series were among the more durable in their colonial portfolio, used continuously across a span long enough to cross the proclamation of Dominion status in 1907 — a political change that left the bank's title, and these notes, entirely unaltered.