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1 Pound Reserve Bank
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of Australia |
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| Year | 1961-1965 |
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| Printer | Note Printing Branch, Reserve Bank of Australia |
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| Obverse lettering | Commonwealth of Australia One Pound Legal tender in the Commonwealth and in all Territories under the control of the Commonwealth |
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| Reverse lettering | ONE POUND CHARLES STURT 1795-1869 HAMILTON HUME 1797-1873 JAMES COOK ENDEAVOUR COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA |
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The Coombs/Wilson signature combination places this note in the final years of Australian pound issues — decimal conversion arrived on 14 February 1966, and from that point the pound series became redundant overnight. Notes returned through banking channels were systematically destroyed, which is why circulated survivors in better grades are genuinely harder to find than the low catalogue values suggest.
H.C. Coombs served as Governor of the Reserve Bank from its establishment in 1960, while Roland Wilson was Secretary to the Treasury — the dual-signature arrangement reflecting the note's dual accountability to both institutions. Wilson's tenure on this series was brief.