Australian ten-pound note
Old unit of Australian currency equivalent to a twenty-dollar note / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Australian ten-pound note was a denomination of the Australian pound that was equivalent to twenty dollars on 14 February 1966. This denomination along with all other pound denomination is still legal tender = twenty dollar note.
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Value | 10 Australian pounds |
Width | 1913–24: 171 mm, 1925–present: 180 mm |
Height | 1913–24: 103 mm, 1925–present: 78 mm |
Security features | patterns |
Material used | cotton |
Years of printing | 1910–1966 |
Obverse | |
Design | Coat of arms |
Reverse | |
Design | Wagons with bags of grain at Narwonah railway station |
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It was first issued in 1911 on overprinted banknotes issued by the various commercial and state banks of the time. In 1913 the first Australian banknote was issued. It featured a scene of the carting wheat at Narwonah in New South Wales.