10 Shillings Bank of Australasia

The Bank of Australasia, though operating across both Australia and New Zealand, remained constitutionally a British institution incorporated by Royal Charter in 1835 and headquartered in London throughout its existence. That arrangement made Perkins, Bacon & Petch the natural choice — the firm had deep roots in colonial currency and security printing going back to the early nineteenth century, including work for the Bank of England's provincial network.

By the mid-1920s, private trading bank notes in Australia were increasingly sidelined by the note-issuing monopoly the Commonwealth Bank had held since 1910 — making this series a late survivor of an older commercial banking tradition rather than a mainstream circulating instrument.