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1 Shilling Postal Note - New Zealand
| Issuer | New Zealand Post Office |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | NEW ZEALAND POSTAL NOTE on account of the Postmaster General PAYABLE IN NEW ZEALAND ONLY POUNDAGE TWO PENCE 2D. Pay to at the sum of 1s/ • ONE SHILLING • 1s/ Issuing Officer Received the above named sum Signature. ISSUING OFFICE PAYING OFFICE |
| Reverse description | Plain white paper reverse showing only bleed-through impression of the obverse design, with no printed design elements or text. |
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New Zealand's postal notes occupied an odd regulatory gap — they were issued by the Post Office rather than a bank, making them instruments of remittance rather than currency, technically outside the scope of the banking legislation that governed ordinary banknotes. The 1 Shilling denomination was the lowest value in the postal note series, used primarily for small domestic money transfers at a time when many rural New Zealanders had no practical access to banking facilities.
Postal notes were payable only at the specified office named at time of purchase, a deliberate anti-fraud measure that also makes surviving examples relatively easy to date and locate geographically.