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Souvenir Notes - 2 Expo Dollars
| Issuer | World Expo 88 |
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| Year | 1988 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1966-date) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette comprises a vivid, stylised collage of six geometric and figurative motifs — including a bird, a face, and a sun — arranged across a mountain-like composition on an orange wave-pattern underprint. A foil disc appears at upper right. Denomination numeral '2' is printed vertically at left. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in green on a light green ground, the centre bears a globe vignette overlaid with the stylised 'XP88' Expo logo. Flowing guilloche scrollwork flanks the globe at left and right. The denomination numeral '2' appears at lower right. |
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World Expo 88, held in Brisbane from April to October 1988, was part of Australia's bicentennial celebration program. These souvenir notes were printed by American Banknote Corporation — a firm with a long history of producing legitimate currency for governments worldwide — which gave the pieces a convincing production quality unusual for commemorative ephemera of the period.
The foil disc security feature is a curiosity: entirely unnecessary for a non-circulating souvenir item, but almost certainly included to reinforce the note-like authenticity of the piece for collectors and fair visitors.