Australian ten-dollar note

Ten dollars
(Australia)
Value10 Australian dollars
Width137 mm
Height65 mm
Security featuresWindow, Watermark
Material usedPolymer
Years of printing1993–94, 1996–98, 2002–03, 2006–2008, 2012–2013, 2015, 2017 [1]
Obverse
DesignAndrew Barton (Banjo) Paterson
Designeremerystudios
Design date20 September 2017
Reverse
DesignDame Mary Gilmore
Designeremerystudios
Design date20 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]

  1. ^ "Serial Numbers".
  2. ^ a b "DISTRIBUTION-CIRCULATION AND PRODUCTION STATISTICS, AS AT END JUNE 2017". banknotes.rba.gov.au. Reserve Bank of Australia. Retrieved 20 December 2017.
  3. ^ Next Generation of Banknotes: $10 Design Reveal Reserve Bank of Australia (www.rba.gov.au). February 17, 2017. Retrieved on 2017-02-18.