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1 Pound National Bank
| Issuer | The National Bank Limited |
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| Year | 1882-1895 |
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| Reference(s) | P#203 |
| Obverse description | The bank title appears in a ruled cartouche at top centre, below which a central vignette shows Hibernia seated with a harp and a hound at her feet, captioned "ERIN GO BRAGH". The National Bank coat-of-arms with two lion supporters is at upper left, and a guilloche medallion bearing "ONE" occupies the upper right. A horizontal band lists the bank's branch towns across Ireland, with the denomination panel "ONE POUND" in a framed tablet at lower left. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse is uniface, printed on plain paper with no design elements or lettering. |
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The National Bank Limited was one of New Zealand's early colonial trading banks, and this note was produced by Perkins, Bacon & Co. — a firm better known for engraving postage stamps, including the Penny Black, than for banknote work, though they produced currency for numerous colonial issuers throughout the nineteenth century. The long issue window of over a decade reflects the stability of the design rather than any single printing run; multiple dates exist across the series.
New Zealand private bank notes were progressively squeezed out of circulation after the Government Notes Act of 1893 required competing institutions to hold gold reserves against their issue, and The National Bank eventually ceased private note production shortly after.