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5 Pounds National Bank
| Issuer | The National Bank Limited |
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| Year | 1908-1914 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | The National Bank Limited Unlimited for Note Issue I Promise to pay the Bearer on Demand Five Pounds at Dublin For the Directors and Company Éire go brách |
| Reverse description | Reverse is unprinted, showing plain paper with no design, vignette, or lettering of any kind, consistent with early twentieth-century Irish commercial bank note practice. |
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The National Bank Limited was one of Australia's major trading banks, and this pre-war series was printed by Perkins, Bacon & Co. — a firm far better known for engraving postage stamps than banknotes, though they held a significant share of colonial and early Commonwealth currency printing contracts throughout this period. The quality of their intaglio work was generally high, and their security printing reputation rested heavily on their philatelic output.
Private trading bank notes in Australia circulated alongside Commonwealth Treasury notes after 1910, when the federal government first entered the currency field. The National Bank continued issuing until legislative pressure made private issue increasingly unviable, with the series running out by 1914.