Australia's Ten Dollar Note
By Judy Evans
@JudyEv (339930)
Rockingham, Australia
June 23, 2020 8:49am CST
Every country has its own currency and I’ve written about our $20 and $50 notes some time ago. The ten dollar note has been issued in several different guises. Since September 2017 it has been a polymer note with a transparent window.
There are two portraits of famous Australian poets on the note. AB ‘Banjo’ Paterson is featured on the obverse and Dame Mary Gilmore on the reverse. Arguably, Paterson’s most famous poem was The Man From Snowy River which later was adapted to a high-grossing film.
The centre panel is transparent and hopefully you can make out a pen nib, two images of a sulphur-crested cockatoo (Cacatua galerita) and finally a windmill. The edges of the panel feature the bramble wattle (Acacia victoriae).
It’s quite an attractive note, don’t you think?
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@piyushbhatia1 (11695)
• India
11 Jul 20
Did the Australian currency also carry photos of Queen Elizabeth?
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@JudyEv (339930)
• Rockingham, Australia
12 Jul 20
A lot of our currency has had images of the queen.
@JudyEv (339930)
• Rockingham, Australia
12 Jul 20
@piyushbhatia1 She is our sovereign but really it's just in name only. Britain has no say now in how we govern our country.
@piyushbhatia1 (11695)
• India
12 Jul 20
@JudyEv Australia is a crown dependence of her ?
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@Tampa_girl7 (50249)
• United States
26 Jun 20
@JudyEv I’ve always thought that our money could be prettier.
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@JudyEv (339930)
• Rockingham, Australia
27 Jun 20
@Tampa_girl7 Our mint prints some really nice coins too but the market is coin collectors. It's a money-making business for them.
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@DocAndersen (54402)
• United States
24 Jun 20
Money, not in the US, is so beautiful. Our (US) coins are pretty, our notes are boring!
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@JudyEv (339930)
• Rockingham, Australia
25 Jun 20
@DocAndersen It's decades since we were in Thailand so I don't remember the currency there.
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@DocAndersen (54402)
• United States
24 Jun 20
@JudyEv Malaysia has amazing notes, so does Thailand. The Euro replaced so many beautiful currencies!
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@louievill (28851)
• Philippines
23 Jun 20
It's very beautiful, I hope our country would start issuing polymer notes, with our weather and humidity paper does not last very long and it's getting more expensive to produce them than the value of the note itself lol
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@wolfgirl569 (106226)
• Marion, Ohio
24 Jun 20
@JudyEv They look like they would be.
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@JudyEv (339930)
• Rockingham, Australia
28 Jun 20
All our notes are quite pretty. I like how they have all this different 'stuff' on them - that most of us never notice and don't know anything about.
@JudyEv (339930)
• Rockingham, Australia
24 Jun 20
We've had other prominent people too but not too many political people.
@LindaOHio (178568)
• United States
23 Jun 20
It's quite lovely and very different.
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@nawala123 (20871)
• Indonesia
30 Jun 20
It is similar to what we had when i was a kid. 100.000 rupiah,the highest note we have.
Is that The Queen in the reserve?
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@JudyEv (339930)
• Rockingham, Australia
30 Jun 20
No, as I said in the text, it's Dame Mary Gilmore.
@Marilynda1225 (82791)
• United States
23 Jun 20
Your $10 note certainly is attractive and so much nicer than our blah money
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@JudyEv (339930)
• Rockingham, Australia
24 Jun 20
Maybe you do too but the different colours make it easier to differentiate between the values.
