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2019 - Here I have a complete collection of all Australian polymer notes (single note) issued since 1988, including all commemorative / numismatic notes, joint issues and special serial numbered issues. The only set that I do not have, at the moment, is the 1998 $10 Portraits AA98/AB98 (with or without frame). This $10 Portrait set was a failure at that time and the series was later withdrawn as it was not popular among collectors. The price was not right then for me too and that was why I didn't buy them. It was the NPA intention then to release all portrait sets on a yearly basis starting with the $10 note and collectors were also given the opportunity to get them all with matching serial numbers too. Unfortunately this was not to be the case.

* Australian banknotes are also the official currency of Christmas Island, Norfolk Islands, Keeling and Cocos Islands, Kiribati, Nauru and Tuvalu. The Australian banknotes were also once circulating as an official currency of Hebrides (Vanuatu), Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands prior to gaining independence. *

"no borrowed scans here nor i cut and pasted from other web sites. all notes posted here are all mine"

02 January 1996

...Australia - Test Notes $5 (1997) and $100 (1996)

Australia

Test Notes of $5 and $100
Signatures $5
Governor - Ian John Macfarlane
Secretary To The Treasury - Edward Alfred 'Ted' Evans
Signatures $100
Governor - Bernard William 'Bernie' Fraser
Secretary To The Treasury - Edward Alfred 'Ted' Evans

These are the two notes that NPA printed to test a special ink for the colouring of the clear substrate of the polymer notes. These notes were printed with specific prefixes and none were printed with first prefixes like BA or AA. 

The notes for the $5 came from the 1997 prints, whilst the $100 notes were from the 1996 prints.

Prefixes printed;-
$5 - AN-AZ, BN-BZ, CN-CZ & DN;
$100 - AN-AZ, BN-BZ, CN-CS.

These notes were not discovered initially until a few years later when unusual prefixes like AZ and CZ were spotted. This is all the information I know about these test notes.

Five Dollars, ND1997
Letter Prefixes AN-AZ, BN-BZ, CN-CZ & DN
Prefix "AZ97"

One Hundred Dollars, ND1996
Letter Prefixes Issued AN-AZ, BN-BZ, CN-CS
Reverse - This Last prefix note is in VF condition

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