More Commonwealth Bank Australia Money Boxes

Following up on my recent post on the old Commonwealth Bank Building money box I found I had to dig further into the history relating to more Commonwealth Bank Australia Money Boxes.

In this case it was good to find the Commonwealth Bank providing a history of their School Savings scheme on their website in Celebrating 90 years of School Bank (commbank.com.au). Ironically, the document is headed “Celebrating 90 Years of School Banking”. They celebrated the service by shutting it down in it’s 90th year, 2021. I did save a copy of the PDF just in case it gets taken down at the CBA site.

From that document I confirmed that the tin Bank Building was re-issued in 1980. Page 7 shows an image of the shiny bank building with the annotation “1980 Moneybox Building”. This was probably available for a few years prior to being superceded by the Dollarmites program in 1988.

While the information in the document does not specifically address when specific money boxes were used, we can infer from the time line (pages 3-4) that the “Dollarmites from Outer Space” launched in 1988, while the revamped Dollarmites program was kicked-off in 1998 this time with human kids as the characters rather than imaginary spacelings.

So the orange plastic Dollarmites money box is probably from the period 1988 to 1997.