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5 Pounds Colonial Bank of New Zealand
| Issuer | Colonial Bank of New Zealand |
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| Year | 1870-1889 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Central allegorical vignette engraved in intaglio style portrays a seated female figure flanked by two sailors, surrounded by pastoral and maritime motifs, set within an oval frame at upper centre. Guilloche panels bearing the denomination numeral '5' appear at each corner, with 'FIVE POUNDS' lettered vertically along both side margins. The promise-to-pay text and denomination are inscribed in copperplate script across the middle register, with 'AUCKLAND' as the place of issue and manuscript spaces for date and authorising signature below. |
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| Obverse lettering | INCORPORATED BY ACT OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY 1874 THE COLONIAL BANK OF NEW ZEALAND FIVE POUNDS FIVE POUNDS ON DEMAND WE PROMISE TO PAY TO THE BEARER FIVE POUNDS STERLING FOR THE COLONIAL BANK OF NEW ZEALAND FIVE THE COLONIAL BANK OF NEW ZEALAND |
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The Colonial Bank of New Zealand was a Dunedin-based institution that operated from 1874 until its absorption into the Bank of New Zealand in 1895, following a crisis of confidence that swept through the colony's financial sector during the prolonged depression of the 1880s and early 1890s. Perkins, Bacon handled the security printing for a number of Australasian private banks during this period — their intaglio work was considered reliable enough that colonial institutions rarely looked elsewhere.
The S263 designation covers a fairly wide issuance window, and individual notes within the series can vary in manuscript date, branch, and signatory. Attribution to specific branch offices is the detail that separates routine examples from the more collectible ones.