50 Pounds

The Bank of Australasia was a British-chartered institution operating across the Australian colonies and New Zealand, ultimately absorbed into the ANZ Banking Group in 1951 after merger with the Union Bank of Australia. By 1910, private banknote issue in Australia was already in decline — the Commonwealth Bank had been established the previous year, and the handwriting was on the wall for colonial-era private paper.

Perkins, Bacon's involvement is significant. The firm's security printing pedigree ran deep, and their siderographic transfer process made plate duplication and counterfeiting genuinely difficult. At the £50 denomination, circulation would have been extremely limited to commercial and interbank transactions. Surviving examples are rare by any measure.