Bank of Van Diemen's Land Limited Banknotes: 1826-1832 |
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In 1826, Governor Brisbane's experiment with a dollar based exchange system was abandoned when the English authorities intervened to re-establish the sterling system of pounds, shillings and pence. The Bank of Van Diemen's Land issued new notes with denominations between £50 and Threepence. The designs of the note series were used for the next 6 years until 1832. A specimen is shown below.
Bank of Van Diemen's Land Limited Thirty Shillings Banknotes: 1826-1832
The notes were engraved by Thomas Bock in Hobart Town. Bock, a convict artist, used mainly rural motifs. The plates used to print the notes were apparently not destroyed as reprints of the Shilling, Sixpence and Threepence, on paper watermarked J WHATMAN 1900, exist. No original notes for those three values are known to have survived.
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