Catalog
10 Shillings
| Issuer | Commonwealth Bank of Australia |
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| Year | 1936-1939 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Portrait of King George V in military uniform occupies the right portion of the note within a fine-line guilloche border, rendered in orange-brown intaglio. The Royal Arms of Australia appears at lower centre flanked by the facsimile signatures of the Governor of the Commonwealth Bank and the Secretary to the Treasury. An oval blank space at left is framed by intricate lathe-work underprint, with the denomination '10/-' and fractional value '1/2' repeated in the corners. |
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| Reverse lettering | MANUFACTURES TEN SHILLINGS |
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Australia's Note Printing Branch in Melbourne took over production of this series from the British-based printer Thomas De La Rue following the Commonwealth Bank's decision to establish full domestic printing capability — a shift that was as much about institutional confidence as it was about logistics. The transition was not entirely smooth; early Melbourne-printed notes showed minor ink consistency problems that De La Rue's equipment had not.
The Riddle-Sheehan signature combination dates the earliest issues to 1936, when Ernest Riddle held the governorship. Sheehan's name then carried over into the 1938 pairing with Armitage, making him the sole continuity figure across both signature varieties of P#21.