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6 Pence - The New Zealand Commercial Exchange Co
| Uitgever | The New Zealand Commercial Exchange Co. Limited |
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| Jaar | 1898-1901 |
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| Samenstelling | Paper |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Black letterpress on cream paper within an ornate floral and guilloche border. The issuer's name in Gothic script arches across the top, with 'Head Office, Wellington, N.Z.' below; two circular vignettes of a volcanic peak flank the central text. The denomination 'SIXPENCE' is set in bold display type, with a boxed '6d GOODS OR SERVICES' cartouche at lower left and manuscript signatures of the President and Secretary at lower right. |
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| Beschrijving keerzijde | Reverse is unprinted, showing only the show-through impression of the obverse text and border in reverse, consistent with a plain paper voucher of the period. |
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| Opmerkingen |
The New Zealand Commercial Exchange Co. Limited occupied a peculiar niche in late colonial finance — not a trading bank, not a government body, but a private exchange and investment firm that briefly issued its own low-denomination scrip during the 1890s financial squeeze. The 6 Pence denomination suggests these were intended for petty commercial transactions, filling a gap left by the chronic shortage of small coin that plagued New Zealand's provincial commercial centres well into the Federation period.
Local printing in Wellington rather than commissioning a British security printer kept costs down, though it also meant the note lacked the anti-forgery sophistication of contemporary Trading Bank issues. The company did not survive long into the new century.