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20 Dollars
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of Australia |
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| Year | 1994-2013 |
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| Value | 20 Dollars |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is dominated by a portrait vignette of Mary Reibey (1777–1855) set against a red and orange guilloche underprint, accompanied by an intaglio rendering of the schooner Mercury — built in Sydney in 1805–06 — and a vignette of the George Street, Sydney building she owned. The polymer substrate incorporates a clear window as an integral security element. Inscriptions include the denomination TWENTY DOLLARS and the legal tender clause THIS AUSTRALIAN NOTE IS LEGAL TENDER THROUGHOUT AUSTRALIA AND ITS TERRITORIES. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse bears a portrait vignette of Reverend John Flynn (1880–1951), founder of the Royal Flying Doctor Service, set within a warm red and orange guilloche field, alongside an intaglio representation of the Air Ambulance Victory and a pedal-powered wireless generator developed by Alfred Traeger. Additional design elements include a medical diagram captioned Where Does It Hurt? and a vignette of Flynn as a camel-mounted boundary rider. The denomination and country name are lettered in intaglio. |
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Australia's polymer banknote program, developed jointly by the Reserve Bank and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, saw this denomination enter circulation in 1994 as part of the full rollover from paper. The switch wasn't cosmetic — polymer notes last significantly longer in circulation and are considerably harder to counterfeit, a practical response to a surge in high-quality counterfeiting of the paper series in the late 1980s.
Garry Emery's design work on this series earned international attention, and the format was subsequently licensed to numerous other central banks. The Evans/Macfarlane signature combination reflects the governorship transition to Ian Macfarlane in September 1996, though notes bearing that pairing didn't enter circulation until 1997.