FAUNA ON BANKNOTES - AUSTRALIA & OCEANIA: Australia
Australia pick 43b3: 2 Dollars from 1976
ND (1976). Black on green, blue, and yellow multicolored underprint. MacArthur at right, sheep at center. William Farrer at left, wheat at center on back. (1976). Ocrb serial number. Thread on side.
Without text COMMONWEALTH OF in heading. Watermark: Captain James Cook.
Collectors Comment: obv.: sheep
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Australia pick 58e: 10 Dollars from 2008
(20)08. Dark blue and purple on multicolored underprint. Man on horseback at left. A.B. "Banjo" Paterson at center, windmill OVD in transparent window at lower right. Dame Mary Gilmore at center right on back. Names added below portraits. Polymer plastic. Dates are indicated by the first two digits of the serial number. Printer: NPA.
Collectors Comment: obv.: horses; rev.: cows
Australia pick 62: 5 Dollars from 2016
(20)16; initial date of issue is 1st of September, 2016. Yellow, pink, violet. Queen Elizabeth II at right. Prickly Moses wattle (Acacia verticillata subsp. ovoidea) and the Eastern Spinebill (Acanthorhynchus tenuirostris) printed on transparency. Back: the New Parliament House and the Forecourt Mosaic, which is based on a Central Desert dot-style painting by Michael Nelson Jagamara titled "Possum and Wallaby Dreaming" and a schematic plan of the New Parliament House. This was based on the Design Development Landscape Plan, which was provided by the Parliament House Construction Authority. Polymer banknote.
Collectors Comment: obv.&rev.: Eastern Spinebill (bird)
Australia pick 63: 10 Dollars from 2017
(20)17; first issued on the 20th of September, 2017. Blue, brown and multicolored. AB "Banjo' Paterson at right center and horseman at right. Bramble Wattle (Acacia victoriae) and the Sulphur-crested Cockatoo (Cacatua galerita) printed on transparency. Areas of micro text which feature excerpts from Gilmore and Paterson’s poems "No Foe Shall Gather Our Harvest" and "The Man from Snowy River". The hut on the front side of the banknote references life in the Australian bushland as described in the poetry of Dame Mary Gilmore. Back: Mary Gilmore at left center. Nib pen at top right, cockatoo and homestead in strip. The image of the horseman on the back side of the banknote is the designer's interpretation of a horseman from the era of Paterson’s writing. Printer: NPA. Polymer banknote.
Collectors Comment: Sulphur-crested Cockatoo (Cacatua galerita) on transparency
Australia pick 64a: 20 Dollars from 2019
2019. Grey on reddish-pink underprint.
Collectors Comment: obv.&rev.: kookaburra
Australia pick 65x: 50 Dollars from 2018
2018. Microprint error.
Collectors Comment: obv.&rev.: swans, rev.: microprint error
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Australia pick 66b: 100 Dollars from 2020
2020. Grey on green, pink, and yellow underprint. Nellie Melba at center right.
Collectors Comment: rev.&obv.: owl