Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
10 Pounds National Bank
| Issuer | The National Bank Limited |
|---|---|
| Year | 1896-1899 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | 10 Pounds (10 Puint) |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | The bank title 'THE NATIONAL BANK LIMITED' appears in a cartouche at top, flanked by the Irish Coat-of-Arms at upper left. A central vignette depicts Hibernia seated with a harp and a hound, inscribed 'ERIN GO BRAGH' below, framed by fine engraved border work. The denomination 'TEN' appears at upper right within an ornamental panel, with the promise-to-pay text and 'TEN POUNDS' in bold letterpress across the centre, above the branch name and issuing authority line. |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Reverse is entirely plain, printed on unadorned paper with no vignette, text, or decorative elements. |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
The National Bank Limited was a New Zealand institution operating under a British charter, and this 10 Pounds note dates from a period when private trading banks still issued their own currency alongside the government. The Bank of New Zealand had nearly collapsed in 1895, requiring a government bailout, and the resulting public anxiety about private bank stability made high-denomination notes from any institution a harder sell on the street.
P#206 is among the rarer surviving National Bank issues from this window — the bank was absorbed by Lloyds Bank in 1966, but its pre-Federation New Zealand paper from the 1890s has a very thin survival rate at this denomination.