Bank Notes: Australia
Australia pick 26b: 1 Pound from 1942
ND (1942). Dark green on multicolor underprint. Portrait King George VI at right. Like number 22. Back: Shepherds with sheep at center.Watermark: Captain Cook. Black.
Australia pick 43d: 2 Dollars from 1974
ND (1974-1985). Black on green, blue, and yellow multicolored underprint. MacArthur at right, sheep at center. William Farrer at left, wheat at center on back. (1983).
Without text COMMONWEALTH OF in heading. Watermark: Captain James Cook.
Australia pick 57a: 5 Dollars from 2002
(20)02. Black, red, and blue on multicolored underprint. Branch at left, Queen Elizabeth II at center right with name under portrait. Issue dates are first two digits of serial number. Back: black on lilac with darker multicolored underprint. Old and new Parliament Houses in Canberra at center. Printer: NPA.
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Australia pick 59h: 20 Dollars from 2013
(20)13. Black and red on orange and pale green underprint. Mary Reiby at center, sailing ship at left. Compass OVD in transparent window at lower right. Biplane at left, Reverend John Flynn at center right, camel at right on back. Names added below portraits. Polymer plastic.
Dates are indicated by the first two digits of the serial number. Printer: NPA.
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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.
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.