Catalog
100 Pounds
| Issuer | Bank of New South Wales |
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| Year | ND (1910) |
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| Composition | Cotton paper |
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| Obverse lettering | Bank of New South Wales I Promise to pay the Bearer at SYDNEY on demand One Hundred Pounds Sterling Dated the day of For the Bank of New South Wales Manager One Hundred |
| Reverse description | Plain unprinted paper ground bearing five intricate lathe-work guilloche medallions: one large central oval and four circular corner medallions, each with fine engine-turned geometric patterns. No text or vignettes appear on the reverse. |
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The Bank of New South Wales was the oldest trading bank in Australia, established in 1817, and by 1910 its London-printed notes occupied the upper tier of private colonial and post-Federation banking. Chamier, Gouppy & East — a short-lived successor identity to the better-known Skipper & East firm — handled security printing for several colonial banks during this transitional period, and their work for NSW is among the rarer surviving examples of that house's output.
A £100 denomination was a working instrument for pastoral and mercantile transactions, not a curiosity. Few circulated long enough to survive in collectable condition, and the attrition rate on high-value private bank notes of this period was severe — most were redeemed and pulped.