Australian ten-pound note

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Ten Pound
(Australia)
Value10 Australian pounds
Width1913–24: 171 mm,
1925–present: 180 mm
Height1913–24: 103 mm,
1925–present: 78 mm
Security featurespatterns
Material usedcotton
Years of printing1910–1966
Obverse
AUS-6b-Commonwealth of Australia-10 Pounds (1918).jpg
DesignCoat of arms
Reverse
DesignWagons with bags of grain at Narwonah railway station

The Australian ten-pound note was a denomination of the Australian pound that was equivalent to twenty dollars on 14 February, 1966. This denomination along with all other pound denomination is still legal tender = twenty dollar note.

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It was first issued in 1911 on overprinted banknotes issued by the various commercial and state banks of the time. In 1913, the first Australian banknote was issued. It featured a scene of the carting wheat at Narwonah in New South Wales.

Timeline

1910

These banknotes were overprinted on private issue from various banks, signatures were Jas R Collins and Geo T Allen. A total of 152,675 banknotes were issued.

1913–1925

Signatories: Collins/Allen (1914–1917); Cerutty/Collins (1918–1924)

The first ten-pound note was issued in 1913, with 2,039,188 being printed. The reverse of the note possessed horizontal red/yellow bands.

1925–1934

Signatories: Kell/Collins (1925–1926); Riddle/Heathershaw (1927); Riddle/Sheehan (1933)

Designed and printed by Thomas S. Harrison, the note was made longer and narrower to improve printing efficiency (six notes could fit onto a sheet instead of four) and further security features were added: a basketweave watermark was used around the borders and the denomination appears in watermarks in the center of the note. 3,610,000 of these notes were printed.

1934–1966

Sheehan/McFarlane (1940); Armitage/McFarlane (1943); Coombs/Watt (1949); Coombs/Wilson (1952)

These were all legal tender and included two basic designs, those of 1934–40 has 3,076,000 issues, 1940–54 with 21,924,000 and 1954–66 with 61,151,000 banknotes issued.

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