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2 Dollars Commonwealth of Australia
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of Australia |
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| Year | 1966-1972 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Commonwealth of Australia Two Dollars Legal tender throughout the Commonwealth of Australia and the Territories of the Commonwealth |
| Reverse description | Black intaglio portrait of William Farrer at left on a green and yellow wavy-line guilloche underprint, with a central vignette of wheat sheaves rendered in fine intaglio line work. Three additional wheat ears appear in black intaglio against a plain white ground at upper right, with a large denomination numeral '2' at lower right. |
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Australia's switch to decimal currency on 14 February 1966 — "Decimal Day" — required an entirely new note series produced under considerable time pressure. The Reserve Bank's Note Printing Branch in Melbourne had to tool up for the full range of denominations essentially from scratch, making this one of the first significant series printed domestically rather than contracted to British security printers. Four signature combinations across the series reflect the turnover of Governors and Deputy Governors between 1966 and 1972, with the Coombs & Wilson pairing appearing only briefly before H.C. Coombs retired after fourteen years as Governor.