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| Uitgever | Commonwealth of Australia |
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| Jaar | 1913-1918 |
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| Afmetingen | 193 × 85 mm |
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| Beschrijving keerzijde | A central vignette of Goulburn Weir in Victoria, enclosed within an ornate oval frame of scrollwork and guilloche latticework, shows a solitary figure at the water's edge. The words TEN and SHILLINGS are set in large letters flanking the central vignette and repeated in each corner. A dense guilloche underprint carrying the repeated text HALF SOVEREIGN covers the entire reverse field. |
| Opschrift keerzijde | TEN 10 SHILLINGS |
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| Opmerkingen |
Australia's first nationally issued banknotes, authorized under the Australian Notes Act of 1910, were a deliberate move to replace the private bank notes that had circulated across the colonies and states since the nineteenth century. The Commonwealth took full control of note issue, and the Treasury — not a central bank, which Australia would not establish until 1920 — was the responsible authority. These early notes were printed at the Melbourne facility of the Commonwealth Bank's note printing branch, making Australia one of very few countries at the time printing its own government currency entirely domestically from the outset.
The 1910 legislation also imposed a tax of ten percent on private bank notes still in circulation, effectively killing the competing issues within a few years.