1950 Coombs/Wilson Specimen Sir Henry Parkes Fifty Pound

1950 Coombs/Wilson Specimen Sir Henry Parkes Fifty Pound Note

Obverse:	Sir Henry Parkes.
Reverse:	Standing woman on left, seated woman on right.
Signatories:	H. C. Coombs, Governor, Commonwealth Bank of Australia. Roland Wilson, Secretary to the Treasury.
Size:	186.00mm (width), 96.00mm (height).
Composition:	Paper.
Watermark:
Serial Numbers:	000000.

Valuation :
1950 Coombs/Wilson Specimen Sir Henry Parkes Fifty Pound Note

	Very Good	Fine	Very Fine	Extra Fine	Almost Uncirc.	Crisp Flat Uncirc.
2002				110,000

Notes:

This specimen banknote did not surface until 1996. The note was mounted with a light glue in a buff coloured folder in a manner similar to earlier specimen notes of Edward VIII. The facsimile Coombs/Wilson signature combination, first used in late 1951, was added after the notes were originally printed.

It is believed that the note was one of a proposed new series of Australian Banknotes which had been in preparation for a number of years by that time. The pound with a portrait of George VI, Ten Shillings with Sir Henry Parks, Five Pounds with Sir Edmund Barton and the Ten Pounds with Sir John Monash are all believed to be part of the same project. With the death of George VI early in 1952, it was decided not to proceed with these designs. All stocks were destroyed in 1958.