DETAILS: Commonwealth Bank money box
RELEASED: c1990
CONDITION: Excellent
DESCRIPTION: Commonwealth Bank of Australiia metal money box.
'Money boxes were designed to encourage children to save, and to experience the growth of coins into sums of money. The Commonwealth Bank money box originated in 1921. The previous year the Bank had taken over the Queensland Government Savings Bank, and its existing stocks of money boxes were relabelled with images of the Commonwealth Bank’s headquarters on the corner of Pitt Street and Martin Place, Sydney. The idea of producing the money box fully in the shape of this building was realised in 1928. ' Reserve bank of Australia
