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100 Pounds
| Issuer | Commonwealth of Australia |
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| Year | 1914-1918 |
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| Value | 100 Pounds |
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| Obverse lettering | 100 100 THE COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA AUSTRALIAN NOTE The Treasurer of the Commonwealth of Australia promises to pay the Bearer ONE HUNDRED POUNDS in gold coin on Demand at the Commonwealth Treasury at the Seat of Government. ONE HUNDRED 100 100 T. S. HARRISON AUSTRALIAN NOTE PRINTER |
| Reverse description | Two landscape vignettes are set within scrolled oval medallions: one showing a waterfall on the Upper Yarra River in Victoria, and the other Leura Falls in New South Wales. The medallions are surrounded by fine guilloche border work and denomination inscriptions. |
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Australia's first independent paper currency came from the Commonwealth's assumption of note-issuing authority under the Australian Notes Act 1910, which abolished state bank issues and gave the federal government a monopoly. The £100 was the highest denomination in this inaugural series — a denomination sized for commercial and interbank settlement rather than retail use, which explains its extreme scarcity in any form today.
The Collins/Allen serif-prefix variant is not recorded as issued, suggesting the plates were prepared but the notes were held or destroyed before release. The late Cerutty/Collins Z-suffix and Z-prefix variants mark the final signing combination of the series, with the Z prefix considered the rarer of the two.