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 This $10 Portrait set was a failure at that time and the series was later withdrawn as it was not popular among collectors.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

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01 November 2013

.Australia - $10 1993 Portfolio Paper and Polymer Issue Hard Cover

Australia

NPA 1993 Portfolio $10 Last Paper and First Polymer Hard Cover Issue
Signatures - Paper
Governor - Bernard William 'Bernie' Fraser
Secretary To The Treasury - Anthony Stuart Cole
Signatures - Polymer
Governor - Bernard William 'Bernie' Fraser
Secretary To The Treasury - Edward Alfred 'Ted' Evans

This is the first of the limited issued edition of the 1993 Portfolio set to commemorate the release of Australia's first $10 polymer note. The hard cover folder consists of 2 notes, one paper from the last print (nd1991) and the first issue of the polymer $10 note (dated 1993). The difference between this issue and all other issues is that both notes have matching red serial numbers and also this is the only $10 paper note ever printed with 2-letter prefix and is also printed in red colour. All previous paper notes were all printed with a 3-letter prefix. The polymer note for this issue is also printed with the first day of release of the $10 note - 1 November 1993. As this is a very limited issue, only 900 folders were offered to the public at $295 per set. Despite low mintage, this issue is neither rare nor scarce and still plenty around. You will find them selling, you might even get them below issue price in most cases.

1993 Portfolio Folder Paper and Polymer Notes with Matching Red Serial Numbers
1,000 Sets Issued
Ten Dollars (Paper)
nd1991, Francis Howard Greenway (b.1777-1837)
Reverse - Henry Archibald Hertzberg Lawson (b.1867-1922)

Ten Dollars (Polymer)
Dated 1 November 1993, Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson CBE (b.1864-1941)
Reverse - Dame Mary Jean Gilmore DBE (b.1865-1962)
 
Hard Folder Front Cover