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10 Shillings Reserve Bank
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of Australia |
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| Year | 1961-1965 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | AUSTRALIAN NOTE COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA LEGAL TENDER TEN SHILLINGS IN THE COMMONWEALTH AND IN ALL TERRITORIES UNDER THE CONTROL OF THE COMMONWEALTH Governor, Reserve Bank of Australia Secretary to the Treasury TEN SHILLINGS |
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| Signature(s) | 1961 - H.C. Coombs and Roland Wilson 1965 - H.C. Coombs and John G. Phillips |
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The Reserve Bank of Australia was formally established on 14 January 1960, separated from the Commonwealth Bank after decades of debate over whether a government trading bank should also hold central banking functions. This 10 Shilling note belongs to the first series issued under that new authority — a direct continuation of the pre-existing design, with the institutional name updated and little else changed.
The Coombs/Phillips signature combination dates to 1965, the final year of pre-decimal Australian shillings. Decimal changeover arrived on 14 February 1966, which made this entire series obsolete almost immediately and cut short what would otherwise have been a longer circulation run.