Catalog
20 Dollars
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of Australia |
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| Year | 1974-1994 |
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| Value | 20 Dollars |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio portrait of Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith at right against a red-orange guilloche underprint with radiating wave lines; the centre field carries four stylised aeronautical vignettes rendered in fine line engraving, evoking wing and fuselage forms against an orange-to-gold ombre background. The denomination numeral "20" appears in the upper-left and lower-right corners, with "TWENTY DOLLARS" printed vertically along the left margin. Two facsimile signatures of the Governor, Reserve Bank of Australia and the Secretary to the Treasury appear below centre, accompanied by the legal tender inscription. |
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| Signature(s) | Phillips & Wheeler Knight & Wheeler Knight & Stone serial # font rather straight an simple Knight & Stone serial # font OCR Johnston & Stone Johnston & Fraser serial # font rather straight an simple Johnston & Fraser serial # font OCR Phillips & Fraser Fraser & Higgins Fraser & Cole Fraser & Evans |
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The paper series Australian $20 ran from 1974 until it was superseded by the polymer note in 1994, making it one of the longer-lived denominations before the RBA's staged transition away from cotton substrate. The signature combinations span nearly two decades of governors and secretaries, and the Knight & Stone issues are notable for appearing in two distinct serial number typefaces — the earlier straight-limbed OCR-style font replaced a simpler roman face mid-run, a change that creates real variety within what otherwise looks like a single issue type.