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| Emittent | Reserve Bank of Australia |
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| Jahr | 1960-1965 |
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| Währung | Pound (1788-1966) |
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| Vorderseitenbeschreibung | Portrait of Governor Arthur Phillip within an oval vignette at left, with his name inscribed below; the Royal Australian Arms centred at top beneath the COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA legend. The denomination TEN POUNDS is rendered in large italic script at centre-right, flanked by guilloche underprint panels and £10 corner numerals, with the legal tender inscription in cursive lettering across the mid-field. Two facsimile signatures appear at lower centre, identified as Governor, Reserve Bank of Australia and Secretary to the Treasury. |
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| Rückseitenlegende | COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA £10 |
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Australia's pre-decimal £10 notes of this period were the highest denomination in general circulation, and the Coombs-Wilson signature combination places this firmly in the early 1960s — Coombs as Governor, Wilson as Secretary to the Treasury. That pairing ran concurrently with the lengthy planning process for decimalization, which eventually made all sterling-denomination notes obsolete on 14 February 1966.
The Note Printing Branch had produced Australian currency in-house since 1913, and by this series had refined the intaglio process to a reliable domestic standard. Interestingly, this £10 was demonetized not by exhaustion or replacement within the sterling system, but simply by the wholesale conversion — one dollar equaling ten shillings, meaning this note converted to the equivalent of A$20.