20 Pounds

The African Banking Corporation was a British colonial bank incorporated in 1891, primarily to service trade and mining interests across southern and eastern Africa. Its banknote issues were always modest in number, and the £20 denomination would have been a high-value commercial instrument — not retail currency but settlement paper for merchants and mining houses.

Bradbury Wilkinson printed the undated base, with the year left incomplete for manuscript completion at the branch of issue. Pinning down which office actually circulated a given example is rarely straightforward.