5 Pounds

The Western Australian Bank was one of the colony's earliest chartered banks, established in 1841, and by the time this note was produced it had survived the gold rush years of the 1890s that reshaped the state's entire financial character. The bank was absorbed into the Bank of New South Wales in 1927, making all late-issue notes from this period inherently finite in number.

Printed locally in Perth rather than sent to one of the established British security printers — unusual for Australian private bank issues of this scale — which raises legitimate questions about print quality consistency across surviving examples. Perth-printed private banknotes from this period are uncommon as a category.