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5 Pounds National Bank
| Issuer | National Bank Limited |
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| Year | 1918-1919 |
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| Reference(s) | P#217 |
| Obverse description | At top centre, a vignette of Hibernia seated with harp, flanked by a decorative guilloche border and the bank title in an ornate letterpress heading; the Irish arms appear at left. The centre of the note carries an extensive list of branch offices in seven lines of small text, beneath a large cursive promise-to-pay legend and the denomination FIVE POUNDS in bold script. Serial numbers appear at left and right, with the date and a manuscript signature for the Directors and Company at the foot. |
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| Reverse description | Plain unprinted paper reverse with no design, vignettes, or lettering applied; faint impressions from the intaglio obverse printing are visible through the sheet. |
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National Bank Limited was one of the commercial banks operating in New Zealand under the pre-Reserve Bank framework, when private institutions still issued their own notes alongside government currency. This 5 Pounds note, printed by Perkins Bacon in London, falls in the period immediately following the First World War — a moment when note production and distribution chains were still recovering from wartime disruption, and demand for higher denominations was rising with postwar economic activity.
Perkins Bacon's intaglio work on colonial and dominion banking notes from this period is generally well-executed, and the firm had long-standing relationships with British imperial banking clients. The 1918–1919 window is narrow enough that surviving examples almost certainly reflect low print runs.