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Banking Check The English, Scottish and Australian Chartered Bank - Sydney, NSW
| Issuer | The English, Scottish and Australian Chartered Bank |
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| Year | 1852-1893 |
| Type | Pattern or trial banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | No. 21899 Sydney__18_ The English, Scottish & Australian Chartered Bank Pay__or Bearer the sum of £ S.T.Leigh & Co |
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| Protection description | Impressed oval stamp with crown on top inscribed: NEW SOUTH WALES / ONE / PENNY / STAMP DUTY |
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The English, Scottish and Australian Chartered Bank operated in Australia from 1852 under Royal Charter, eventually absorbed into the ANZ Banking Group through a series of mergers completed in 1970. S.T. Leigh & Co. was one of Sydney's principal commercial printers of the period — a local firm responsible for a significant volume of colonial financial stationery rather than a specialist security printer, which makes the watermark here essentially the primary anti-forgery measure. Cheques printed by Leigh for colonial banks are moderately scarce as archival survivors; most were cancelled and pulped after reconciliation.