NEW BOOK: BANKNOTES OF NEW ZEALAND TRADING BANKS

In this 278 page book, I have attempted to provide facts, stories and information on each issued Bank of New Zealand note in New Zealand. These notes were issued from 1861 to 1934. I have not attempted to write an account of the Bank of New Zealand notes issued in Australia, but I have included information on the notes that were originally printed for issue in New Zealand but later modified for use in either Fiji or Samoa.

The chapters in the book have not been ordered chronologically but by note denomination, from Ten Shillings to One Hundred Pounds. Some information has been repeated in later chapters to provide the best possible record of that note issue. For each chapter, information on each known issued, specimen or trial note has been recorded. This part of each chapter is not definitive as unknown notes will undoubtedly be revealed in the future. However, it provides a very exhaustive starting point for a collector of these notes and any further editions of the book will include updated information. During the period when Bank of New Zealand notes were issued, a number of counterfeit notes of various denominations and issues were produced. Their stories along with information on these forgeries have also been included in the relevant chapters.

The section in each chapter on specimen notes will hopefully give the reader more information on a particular note issue as many of the specimen notes carried annotated dates to provide a particular timeframe when the notes were printed or issued. Along with watermarks in the note paper, the method by which the printer marked a note as a specimen provides further information about a specimen note's date of origin. As the majority of the BNZ notes were printed by Bradbury Wilkinson, information in this section will appeal to anyone who has an interest in notes produced by this printer.

The intention of the book is not to create or endorse a cataloguing system but to provide a coherent overview of information on the Bank of New Zealand notes.

The book (ISBN 978-0-473-53551-3) has a soft cover and has been commercially printed in color. Copies are US$55.00 plus P&H and can be obtained from emailing Robert on nzhnoted@gmail.com

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