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5 Pounds
| Issuer | Commonwealth Bank of Australia |
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| Year | 1939-1952 |
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| Currency | Pound (1788-1966) |
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| Reverse description | A square intaglio vignette at left portrays a group of longshoremen loading or unloading barrels and bales, captioned COMMERCE below the scene. To the right, the denomination £5 and the word FIVE appear within an elaborate guilloche underprint composed of interlocking geometric and basket-weave patterns. The overall design is executed in a deep blue ink with ornate lathe-work borders framing the entire reverse. |
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| Signature(s) | Sheehan & McFarlane Armitage & McFarlane Coombs & Watt Coombs & Wilson |
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| Protection description | a pattern or portrait visible when held to light, embedded in the cotton paper substrate. |
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