Australian ten-pound note
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.
| (Australia) | |
|---|---|
| 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 | |
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| Design | Coat of arms |
| Reverse | |
| Design | Wagons with bags of grain at Narwonah railway station |
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.
Timeline
1910
These banknotes were overprinted on private issue from various banks, signatures were Jas R Collins and Geo T Allen. A total of 152,675 banknotes were issued.
1913–1925
Signatories: Collins/Allen (1914–1917); Cerutty/Collins (1918–1924)
The first ten-pound note was issued in 1913, with 2,039,188 being printed. The reverse of the note possessed horizontal red/yellow bands.
1925–1934
Signatories: Kell/Collins (1925–1926); Riddle/Heathershaw (1927); Riddle/Sheehan (1933)
Designed and printed by Thomas S. Harrison, the note was made longer and narrower to improve printing efficiency (six notes could fit onto a sheet instead of four) and further security features were added: a basketweave watermark was used around the borders and the denomination appears in watermarks in the center of the note. 3,610,000 of these notes were printed.
1934–1966
Sheehan/McFarlane (1940); Armitage/McFarlane (1943); Coombs/Watt (1949); Coombs/Wilson (1952)
These were all legal tender and included two basic designs, those of 1934–40 has 3,076,000 issues, 1940–54 with 21,924,000 and 1954–66 with 61,151,000 banknotes issued.