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| 正面描述 | Dark green intaglio-printed note with an ornate guilloche border. Central vignette shows a black swan on water flanked by floral scrollwork, with the numeral 5 in octagonal panels at left and right. Lower field carries the promise-to-pay text in letterpress, with PERTH in a solid panel at foot and SPECIMEN overprint in red. |
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| 背面描述 | Printed in orange-brown on a pale ground, the reverse centres on a large oval guilloche medallion bearing FIVE POUNDS in a horizontal band, with the numeral 5 in circular panels at each side. The inscription WESTERN AUSTRALIAN BANK arcs around the oval within an elaborate lathe-work surround. |
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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.