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5 Pounds
| Issuer | National Bank of South Africa Ltd. |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Pattern or trial banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | The National Bank of South Africa Limited Promise to pay the Bearer on Demand at their Office at PRETORIA FIVE POUNDS VALUE RECEIVED. 3rd January, 1920. BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS. No B 895896 |
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| Protection description | Waterlow & Sons watermark in the paper. |
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The National Bank of South Africa Ltd. was a commercial institution, not a central bank — it operated alongside several rival colonial-era banks before being absorbed into Barclays Bank (Dominion, Colonial and Overseas) in 1926 following a forced amalgamation driven by post-WWI financial instability in South Africa. This note was issued during that difficult transitional window, when the bank was already under pressure from contracting credit markets and the deflationary shock that hit commodity-dependent economies hard after 1919.
Waterlow & Sons produced clean, technically competent work, but surviving examples of this series are genuinely uncommon — the 1926 merger triggered a rapid withdrawal and destruction of circulating stock.