Australian ten-dollar note

Ten dollars

(Australia)
Value	10 Australian dollars
Width	137 mm
Height	65 mm
Security features	Window, Watermark
Material used	Polymer
Years of printing	1993–94, 1996–98, 2002–03, 2006–2008, 2012–2013, 2015, 2017 [1]
Obverse
Design	Andrew Barton (Banjo) Paterson
Designer	emerystudios
Design date	20 September 2017
Reverse
Design	Dame Mary Gilmore
Designer	emerystudios
Design date	20 September 2017

The Australian ten-dollar note was one of the four original decimal banknotes excluding the Australian five-dollar note, was issued when the currency was changed from the Australian pound to the Australian dollar on 14 February 1966. It replaced the Australian five-pound note, which included the same blue colouration. There have been four different issues of this denomination: a paper banknote; a commemorative hi-polymer note, to celebrate the bicentennial of Australian settlement (the first polymer banknote of its kind); the 1993–2017 polymer note; and from September 2017 a polymer note featuring a transparent window.

In June 2017, there were 128 million $10 notes in circulation, with a net value of $1.280 billion.^[2] This was 2% of the cash value of all banknotes in circulation, and 8% of the number of all banknotes in circulation.^[2]

Since the start of issue of $10 notes, there have been eleven signature combinations, of which the 1967 issue is the most valued. It was issued for one year, along with the Coombs/Wilson issue of 1966.

Following the issue of a new $5 note in September 2016, the RBA revealed the design for the new $10 note, which was issued in September, 2017.^[3]