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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 This $10 Portrait set was a failure at that time and the series was later withdrawn as it was not popular among collectors.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"

03 August 2010

...Australia - 1995 $50 VG95 Last Prefix Rare (VG) Condition

Australia

$50 1995 First Print Last Prefix Rare
Signatures
Governor - Bernard William 'Bernie' Fraser
Secretary To The Treasury - Edward Alfred 'Ted' Evans

This is a very rare last prefix polymer note, especially in UNC or even aUNC conditions. If you have one in your collection and did not pay a high price for it, then you are one lucky collector. I got this from the ATM and it is in vg-vf condition. I have two of these, both from the ATMs.

As this was the first polymer prints for the new polymer series, and since the amount of banknotes printed are all depending on the demand, not all polymer notes printed have the same last prefixes. For this reason, many collectors missed out on this and for this reason, it became one of the most expensive last prefixes of note, if not the rarest. The print run for this prefix was 379,999 pieces, which is quite a lot. I am not sure if this is harder to find or the first Australia 10 polymer commemorative 1988 print. Equally, both notes are hot favourites among serious collectors. I hope you have better luck than me.

Below, I have only posted the reverse side of the note. The portrait of the note belongs to Edith Dircksey Cowan OBE (b.1861-1932).

Fifty Dollars
nd1995, prefix VG95 Last Prefix