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10 Shillings Bank of New Zealand, Without text on back
| Issuer | Bank of New Zealand |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Reference(s) | P#S224 |
| Obverse description | Blue intaglio-printed note with intricate guilloche underprint throughout. A vignette at left centre shows two Maori figures in traditional dress, while a vignette at right centre presents two kiwi birds beside a palm tree with a volcanic cone in the background. The bank title 'BANK OF NEW ZEALAND' appears at top in bold lettering, with the denomination 'TEN SHILLINGS' repeated across the lower portion and in corner cartouches. |
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| Obverse lettering | BANK OF NEW ZEALAND INCORPORATED BY ACT OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY ON DEMAND WE PROMISE TO PAY THE BEARER TEN SHILLINGS WELLINGTON FOR THE BANK OF NEW ZEALAND TEN SHILLINGS |
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The Bank of New Zealand was a private institution when this note was issued — it did not come under government ownership until 1945. The "Without text on back" designation distinguishes this from later printings of the same Bradbury Wilkinson plate series that added a back overprint, making the two varieties superficially similar but catalogued separately.
Bradbury Wilkinson's New Zealand work from this period is generally well-executed intaglio, and the 1920 dating places this note in the post-WWI adjustment years when New Zealand's trading banks were still issuing their own currency alongside government notes — a dual system that ran until the Reserve Bank Act of 1933 ended private note issue entirely.