5 Pounds

The Cape of Good Hope Bank Limited was one of several competing commercial banks operating in the Cape Colony during the 1870s and 1880s, each issuing their own notes in a largely unregulated environment. The bank collapsed in 1882, just two years after this note was printed, making surviving examples from this series genuinely rare — most circulating stock would have been called in or destroyed during the liquidation process.

Bradbury Wilkinson's involvement is worth noting. The firm was already well established as a security printer by this date, handling work for numerous colonial and dominion issuers across the British Empire.