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1 Pound - The Producers' Bank Sydney
| Issuer | The Producers' Bank, Sydney |
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| Year | 1855-1893 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | The upper portion of the note carries a central vignette of a busy harbour scene with sailing vessels and a large warehouse or mill building, flanked on either side by smaller rural and agricultural vignettes. The bank title 'THE PRODUCERS' BANK' arches above the central vignette, with serial numbers appearing to both left and right. The lower half bears a printed promise-to-pay text in script lettering, a bold guilloche-framed numeral 'ONE' at lower left, and the imprint 'THE PRODUCERS' BANK, SYDNEY' repeated along the top and bottom borders, with 'ONE POUND' lettered vertically in the side panels. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is plain, consisting of unprinted paper with no design, text, or ornamentation, showing only the natural aging and wear of the note. |
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The Producers' Bank operated in Sydney from the mid-nineteenth century as a trading and agricultural finance institution, one of dozens of colonial-era private banks that issued their own notes before the Commonwealth Bank's establishment ended that practice. Private bank note issue in New South Wales was progressively curtailed through the latter half of the 1800s, and the Producers' Bank itself did not survive into the federation period.
No Pick number has been assigned, which typically indicates surviving specimens are either extremely rare or known only from archival sources. Unattributed colonial Australian private bank paper is among the most difficult material to authenticate and cross-reference.