australia: ...Australia - 1997 Annual Premium Full Set with Red Serial Numbers #477

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 This $10 Portrait set was a failure at that time and the series was later withdrawn as it was not popular among collectors.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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25 December 2013

...Australia - 1997 Annual Premium Full Set with Red Serial Numbers #477

Australia

NPA 1997 Annual Premium Set of Five Banknotes

Signatures

Governor - Ian John Macfarlane

Secretary To The Treasury - Edward Alfred 'Ted' Evans

Australia 1997 Annual Premium Set all printed with red serial numbers. This is the first full set of banknotes printed from $5 to $100, all with red serial numbers. A total of 1000 sets were printed but only 900 sets were released to the public and the Reserve Bank retained the remaining 100 sets for its bank's archives. These Premium sets were either sold individually or as a full set with individual selling price of :

$5 - $50,

$10 - $65,

$20 - $85,

$50 - $115, and

$100 - $165.

Or full set at $480.

There was no discount if you purchased them in a full set of 5 folders. The selling price for the Deluxe full set was $263. Only 4000 full sets were issued.

Premium Set with Red Serial Numbers

Five Dollars

nd1997, Queen Elizabeth the Second

Reverse - Parliament House in Canberra

Ten Dollars

nd1997, Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson CBE (b.1864-1941)

Reverse - Dame Mary Jean Gilmore DBE (b.1865-1962)

Twenty Dollars

nd1997, Mary Reibey (b.1777-1855)

Reverse - John Flynn (b.1880-1951)

Fifty Dollars

nd1997, David Unaipon (b.1872-1967)

nd1997, Edith Dircksey Cowan OBE (b.1861-1932)

nd1997, Dame Nellie Melba (b.1861-1931)

Reverse - General Sir John Monash (b.1865-1931)

Front Cover of Folders