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10 Pounds Bank of New South Wales
| Issuer | Bank of New South Wales |
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| Year | 1923-1934 |
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| Size | 179 × 89 mm |
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| Obverse description | Uniface note with the bank's full title inscribed within ornate decorative borders at top and bottom. A central allegorical vignette at the upper centre presents a seated female figure symbolising Commerce. The face bears the promise-to-pay text with manuscript completion fields for place, date, and authorising signatures. |
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| Obverse lettering | BANK OF NEW SOUTH WALES PROMISE TO PAY THE BEARER AT ......... ON DEMAND TEN POUNDS STERLING DATED THE.....DAY OF.....19..... FOR THE BANK OF NEW SOUTH WALES TEN POUNDS BANK OF NEW SOUTH WALES |
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The Bank of New South Wales was a private trading bank, not a central authority — this note circulated under Australia's pre-Federal Reserve arrangements, when chartered banks still issued their own currency alongside Commonwealth notes. That system was effectively ended by the Banking Act of 1945, which transferred the right of issue exclusively to the Commonwealth Bank. Notes like this one were progressively withdrawn and replaced during the 1930s as Commonwealth control tightened, meaning later dates in this range saw sharply lower circulation volumes.
Charles Skipper & East handled the printing throughout the series, as they did for numerous colonial and dominion banks during this period. The long production window — over a decade — reflects reorders from standing plates rather than any redesign.