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The African Banking Corporation was a British-registered colonial bank operating branches across southern Africa, including the Transvaal, Cape Colony, and Rhodesia. Its note-issuing activity was concentrated in the 1890s, a period when private bank paper still circulated freely alongside government issues in much of the region. The corporation was eventually absorbed into the Standard Bank of South Africa in 1920, ending its independent identity entirely.

Bradbury Wilkinson's engraved work for colonial issuers of this period is consistently fine, and the cotton substrate they used for southern African clients held up reasonably well in a climate that was hard on paper currency.