Australian ten-dollar note
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.
| (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 |
| 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 |
In June 2017, there were 128 million $10 notes in circulation, with a net value of $1.280 billion. This was 2% of the cash value of all banknotes in circulation, and 8% of the number of all banknotes in circulation.
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.