50 Pounds

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.