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| Emittent | Otago Banking Company |
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| Jahr | 1851 |
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| Größe | 170 × 127 mm |
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| Vorderseitenbeschreibung | Uniface note printed in black on plain paper. The Scottish royal arms vignette appears at upper centre, flanked by the bank title 'BANK OF OTAGO' in bold letterpress. Below, the issuer name 'The Otago Banking Company' is rendered in ornate copperplate script, with two oval guilloche cartouches bearing the denomination numeral 'ONE' at left and right. The promise-to-pay text and denomination 'ONE POUND Sterling' are set in a combination of script and bold letterpress, with 'AT THEIR OFFICE HERE' and 'Dunedin' below, and a rectangular signature box at lower right ruled for Chairman and Manager. |
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| Vorderseitenlegende | BANK OF OTAGO THE OTAGO BANKING COMPANY ONE ONE PROMISE TO PAY THE BEARER ON DEMAND ONE POUND STERLING AT THEIR OFFICE HERE DUNEDIN BY ORDER OF THE DIRECTORS CHAIRMAN MANAGER |
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The Otago Banking Company was a short-lived provincial institution, operating from the early settler period of the Otago colony before being absorbed into more durable banking networks as New Zealand's financial sector consolidated through the 1860s. Notes from this issuer are exceptionally rare survivors — provincial colonial paper of this vintage rarely escaped the destruction that followed branch closures and currency consolidation.
1851 places this note in Otago's earliest European settlement years, barely three years after the Free Church of Scotland colonists established Dunedin. A functioning private banknote presupposes an economy already complex enough to need one — which at that date in that location was far from guaranteed.