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50 Pounds
| Issuer | London Bank of Australia |
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| Year | ND (1910) |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | LONDON BANK OF AUSTRALIA LIMITED FIFTY POUNDS MELBOURNE VICTORIA FIFTY 50 |
| Reverse description | No second image provided; reverse description cannot be confirmed from available sources. |
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The London Bank of Australia was a British-registered institution operating branches across the Australian colonies and later states — one of several Anglo-Australian banks that retained London-registered status long after Australian federation in 1901. By 1910, that model was under pressure; the bank was absorbed into the English, Scottish and Australian Bank (ES&A) that same year, making any note attributable to this late period a product of an institution in the final phase of its independent existence.
A £50 note from a provincial commercial bank in this era would have seen almost no retail circulation — denominations of this size moved between merchants, squatters, and bank branches, not across shop counters. Survivorship is poor for exactly that reason: high-value notes were typically presented and cancelled rather than worn out.