Catalog
10 Dollars
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of Australia |
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| Year | 2002-2015 |
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| Composition | Polymer |
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| Obverse description | Portrait of A.B. 'Banjo' Paterson at centre-right in intaglio, wearing a wide-brimmed hat, against a blue and green multicolour underprint with guilloche patterning. A vignette of a horseman and galloping horses appears at left, with a facsimile of Paterson's signature and verse from 'The Man from Snowy River' below. The numeral '10' is printed in large format at upper right, with a clear polymer window bearing a printed floral device. |
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| Reverse description | Portrait of Dame Mary Gilmore at centre-right in intaglio, set against a violet and blue multicolour underprint with guilloche work. A vignette at left shows a pioneer settler scene with a horse-drawn wagon and cattle, with a facsimile of Gilmore's signature beneath her portrait. The large numeral '10' appears at upper right alongside the clear polymer window, and the serial number is printed in black at lower right. |
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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 full circulating polymer series — the $10 being among the earlier denominations converted. Note Printing Australia, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Reserve Bank, handled production entirely domestically throughout this run.
The signature combinations span four governor-secretary pairings across thirteen years, with the 2006 transition reflecting Glenn Stevens replacing Macfarlane mid-series. Ken Henry's name appears across three of the four signature variants, an unusually long tenure for a Secretary to the Treasury.