Catalog
50 Pounds
| Issuer | London Bank of Australia Limited |
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| Year | ND (1910) |
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| Composition | Cotton paper |
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| Obverse description | Landscape-format note with salmon-pink and grey underprint; bank title LONDON BANK OF AUSTRALIA LIMITED in bold letterpress across the centre, flanked by guilloché side panels bearing coat-of-arms vignettes. Denomination numeral '50' appears in each corner, with FIFTY POUNDS in script and 'VICTORIA' inscribed along the lower border. Note is cancelled by punch perforations. |
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| Obverse lettering | LONDON BANK OF AUSTRALIA LIMITED FIFTY POUNDS FIFTY VICTORIA MELBOURNE |
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The London Bank of Australia Limited was absorbed into the English, Scottish and Australian Bank in 1893 — meaning any note issued under the London Bank name after that date was technically transitional stock, drawn on old printed plates or remaining authorized stationery. By 1910 the bank had been legally dissolved into its successor for nearly two decades, which makes the survival of circulating instruments still bearing its name a quiet administrative curiosity rather than a straightforward issuance.
At the fifty-pound denomination, surviving examples from this series are exceptionally rare. High-value commercial notes of this period were typically cancelled and returned to the issuing branch upon settlement, leaving almost nothing for the historical record.