Australia paper money AUD 100 Australian Dollars banknote of 1992,
Sir Douglas Mawson & John Tebbutt.
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| 100 Australian Dollars |
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| Aussie Dollar |
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Obverse: Portrait of Sir Douglas Mawson, Australian Antarctic explorer and geologist. Mawson's scientific contributions ranged over a wide area of geology and physics and included three expeditions to the Antarctic. The design depicted Mawson in his Antarctic gear against a background of geological strata formations which he studied in the Flinders Ranges of South Australia.
Reverse: Portrait of Australian Astronomer John Tebbutt.
John Tebbutt (1834 – 1916) was a pioneer astronomer who helped to lay the foundations for Australia's involvement in astronomy with the discovery of major comets. Tebbutt's portrait is thus set against representations of his observatory at Windsor, New South Wales, and elements to symbolise the sky and comets.
Australian Banknotes 50 Australian dollars banknote of 1991.
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| 50 Australian dollars banknote |
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| Australian paper fifty dollar note, circulated between 1973 and 1995. |
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The original fifty dollar note, designed by Gordon Andrews, has a scientific theme.
Obverse: Portrait of Australian pathologist Sir Howard Florey and scenes of laboratory research.
Reverse: Portrait of Sir Ian Clunies Ross, veterinary scientist and first chairman of the CSIRO, along with scenes from the Australian environment.
Australian banknotes 20 Australian dollars banknote of 1991,
Kingsford Smith & Lawrence Hargrave.
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| 20 Australian dollars |
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| 20 Australian dollars note |
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Obverse: Portrait of Charles Kingsford Smith along with five Lissajous curves drawn by a two-pendulum harmonograph.
Reverse: Portrait of Lawrence Hargrave with his drawings of kites and type aircraft designs.
Watermark: Portrait of Captain James Cook in the white field.
The Australian twenty dollar banknote was issued when the currency was changed from the Australian pound to the Australian dollar on 14 February 1966. It replaced the £10 note which had the same orange colouration. 20 Australian dollars paper banknote had a gradient of yellow and red, with a distinct orange colouration background. It is because of this vivid colour that the current note is often called a "lobster".
Sir Charles Edward Kingsford Smith MC, AFC (9 February 1897 – 8 November 1935), often called by his nickname Smithy, was an early Australian aviator. In 1928, he earned global fame when he made the first trans-Pacific flight from the United States to Australia. He also made the first non-stop crossing of the Australian mainland, the first flights between Australia and New Zealand, and the first eastward Pacific crossing from Australia to the United States. He also made a flight from Australia to London, setting a new record of 10.5 days.
Lawrence Hargrave (29 January 1850 – 14 July 1915), engineer, explorer, astronomer, inventor and aeronautical pioneer.
Australian Banknotes 10 Australian dollars banknote of 1979,
Francis Greenway & Henry Lawson.
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| 10 Australian dollars banknote |
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| Australia 10 Dollars bill |
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Obverse: Portrait of Francis Greenway along with public building he helped construct.
Reverse: Portrait of Henry Lawson with his poetry and scenes of the outback gold mining town of Gulgong in the 19th century including the Times Bakery.
Watermark: Portrait of Captain James Cook in the white field.
The Australian ten dollar banknote was issued when the currency was changed from the Australian pound to the Australian dollar on 14 February 1966; it replaced the £5 note which had the same blue colouration.
Australia banknotes Australian ten-dollar commemorative polymer note of 1988.
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| Australian ten-dollar Commemorative polymer note |
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| Australian 10 dollars Commemorative polymer banknote |
Obverse design included the sailing ship HMS Supply anchored at Sydney Cove with the early colony in the background. Above are people who symbolise all who have contributed to Australia, from left the early settlers to right the modern working man.
Reverse includes portraits of the aboriginal population, the main picture is a young native youth with ceremonial paint, and in the background is a Morning Star Pole, other Aboriginal artworks commissioned by the Bank and a human like figure from Dream time.
Security features - This Australian ten-dollar commemorative polymer note includes an optically variable device of Captain James Cook.
HMS Supply - Launched in 1759, the third HMS Supply was a Royal Navy armed tender that played an important part in the foundation of Australia.
Dream time - In the animist framework of Australian Aboriginal mythology, Dreamtime is a sacred era in which ancestral totemic spirit beings created the world.
Australian Banknotes 5 Australian dollars banknote of 1991, Joseph Banks & Caroline Chisholm.
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| 5 Australian dollars banknote |
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| Currency of Australia 5 Dollars bill |
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Obverse: Portrait of Sir Joseph Banks, English naturalist, botanist and patron of the natural sciences. He took part in Captain James Cook's first great voyage to Botany Bay (1768–1771). Banks is credited with the introduction to the Western world of eucalyptus, acacia, mimosa and the genus named after him, Banksia.
Reverse: Portrait of Caroline Chisholm - progressive 19th-century English humanitarian known mostly for her involvement with female immigrant welfare in Australia, as well as elevations of Sydney streets from Joseph Fowles’ "Sydney in 1848", the cover of the Shipping Gazette, a watercolour of the Waverley, and a handbill of a meeting of the Family Colonization Loan Society. All of these images were sourced from the State Library of New South Wales.
Watermark: Portrait of Captain James Cook in the white field.
A metallic strip, first near the centre of the note, then from 1976 moved to the left side on the obverse of the note.
The initial paper five dollar note was designed by Gordon Andrews, with Russell Drysdale as the Reserve Bank of Australia’s artistic advisor.
The Australian 5 dollar note was first issued on 29 May 1967, one year after the currency was changed from the Australian pound to the Australian dollar on 14 February 1966. It was a new denomination, as the pound system had no £2½, with a new mauve colouration.
Australian Banknotes 2 Australian dollars banknote of 1979.
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| 2 Australian dollars banknote |
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| Australian two-dollar note |
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Obverse: Portrait of John Macarthur (1767 – 11 April 1834) was a British army officer, entrepreneur, politician, architect and pioneer of settlement in Australia. Macarthur is recognised as the pioneer of the wool industry that was to boom in Australia in the early 19th century and become a trademark of the nation. Big Merino at center.
Reverse: Portrait of William James Farrer (3 April 1845 – 16 April 1906) , leading Australian agronomist and plant breeder. Farrer is best remembered as the originator of the "Federation" strain of wheat, distributed in 1903. His work resulted in significant improvements in both the quality and crop yields of Australia's national wheat harvest, a contribution for which he earned the title 'father of the Australian wheat industry'.
Watermark: Portrait of Captain James Cook in the white field.
A metallic strip, first near the centre of the note, then from 1976 moved to the left side on the obverse of the note.
The Australian two dollar note was introduced in 1966 to replace the Australian £ one-pound note due to decimalisation. Two Dollars banknote was replaced by a gold-coloured coin from 1988.
Australia Banknotes Australian one dollar banknote of 1983, Queen Elizabeth II.
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| Australian one dollar banknote, Queen Elizabeth II |
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| Australian dollar |
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Obverse: Portrait of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II with the Australian Coat of Arms. This portrait was based on a photo taken by Douglas Glass.
Reverse: Aboriginal Contemporary Art, created by David Malangi. The artwork depicts the 'mortuary feast' of one of the artist's creation ancestors, Gunmirringu, the great Ancestral Hunter. The Manharrngu people attribute this story as the origin of their mortuary rites.
Watermark: Portrait of Captain James Cook in the white field.
An upright internal metallic strip was first placed near the centre of the note, then from 1976 was moved to the left side as viewed from the obverse.
The Australian one dollar note was designed by Gordon Andrews, the design being accepted in April 1964.
The Australian one dollar note was introduced in 1966 to replace the 10 shilling note due to decimalisation. Approximately 1.7 billion one dollar banknotes were printed. The Australian one dollar banknotes were in circulation from its introduction in 1966 until its replacement by the current gold-colored dollar coin on 13 May 1984, due to the longer service life and cost effectiveness of coins. These notes can be redeemed at face value by the Reserve Bank of Australia.