Catalog
10 Dollars
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of Australia |
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| Year | 1993-2015 |
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| Printer | Note Printing Australia, Melbourne, Australia (1998-date) |
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| Reverse description | At left centre, an intaglio portrait of Dame Mary Gilmore (1865–1962), Australian writer and journalist, set against a vignette of a bullock team hauling wool through an outback landscape. The underprint incorporates a facsimile extract from her poem 'No Foe Shall Gather our Harvest', rendered in a warm ochre and teal colour scheme characteristic of the polymer series. |
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| Protection type | Clear window, Microprinting, Serial number |
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Australia's polymer banknote program, developed jointly by the Reserve Bank and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation through the 1980s, made the country the first in the world to issue a complete circulating polymer series. This $10 was part of that rollout. The substrate itself — biaxially oriented polypropylene — was a genuinely novel material for currency, and Note Printing Australia eventually licensed the technology to central banks across dozens of countries.
The clear window, rather than being a separate inserted element, is an inherent feature of the unprinted polymer base — a manufacturing distinction that matters when authenticating the note against later imitations from issuers who adopted similar but technically distinct window approaches.