![]() ![]() His first book – The Man from Snowy River – sold out of its first edition within a week! Waltzing Matilda and The Man from Snowy River are both depicted in the banknote.ĭame Mary Gilmore (1865–1962) was also a poet, as well as an author, journalist and keen campaigner against inequality and deprivation. ![]() This iconic Aussie was actually a solicitor in his younger days, not putting poetic pen to paper until he was in his 30s. The unique feature of the $10 note is the microprint on all other notes is the value, on the $10 note it includes extracts from works by the two poets featured on the note.Īndrew Barton ‘Banjo’ Paterson (1864–1941) was an Australian-born poet, ballad writer, horseman and journalist, most famous for works such as Waltzing Matilda and The Man from Snowy River. The $10 note has the portraits of poets AB ‘Banjo’ Paterson and Dame Mary Gilmore. Each of the Australian dollar notes depict a famous Australian or notable person who has some important significance to Australia. Notes of different denominations vary in both size and colour. Today, Australia is a world leader in bank notes and coins and pioneered the use of polymer bank notes in 1988, although it wasn’t until 1996 that paper notes were fully replaced. In 1966 decimal currency, dollars and cents replaced the pounds, shillings and pence. The first coins used in Australia, in 1813, were created by punching the centre out of a Spanish dollar to produce two coins the Holey Dollar and the Dump, they were then stamped with their new values making them worthless elsewhere in the world.ġ910, nine years after Federation, Australian silver coins were introduced, a year later Australian bronze pennies and half pennies and in 1913 the first Australian notes were issued. Rum became one of the original forms of currency during the first 25 years despite all the issues of spillage and loss. When the first fleet arrived in Australia it was decided that no currency was required as the population consisted of only soldiers and convicts. ![]()
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