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 This $10 Portrait set was a failure at that time and the series was later withdrawn as it was not popular among collectors.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

01 December 2018

...Australia - $5 (Reprint) and $50 Next Generation Series 2018

Australia

Fifty Dollars Next Gen Series ND2018

This is the new $50 polymer banknotes and is the third issue for the Next Gen series. This note was issued on 18.10.2018. The prefixes issued are from AA18 to IB18.

The Reserve Bank of Australia retains the main designs of this note with the portrait of David Unaipon on the front and Edith Cowan on the back. Both the portraits are slightly modified too.

David Unaipon was a preacher, inventor and author, whilst Edith Dircksey Cowan OBE was a former member of the Western Australia Legislative Assembly

Update:-
On 09.05.2019, almost seven months after it was first released, it was reported that the entire issue was all printed with an error on the note. The micro text word 'RESPONSIBIL(I)TY' is missing the 3rd "I". This error is repeated 3 times, on lines 2, 8 and 20. As all notes are printed with the same error and therefore it's not rare!

This is a bit embarrassing but nothing can be done. No doubt the next reprints will have these corrected.

Signatures:-
Governor - Philip Rowe
Secretary To The Treasury - John Arthur Fraser

Fifty Dollars
nd2018, First Prefix AA18, David Unaipon (b.1872-1967)
Reverse - Edith Dircksey Cowan (b.1861-1932)

Fifty Dollars
nd2018, Normal Prefix EA18, David Unaipon (b.1872-1967). This was initially reported to be the last prefix.
Reverse - Edith Dircksey Cowan (b.1861-1932)

Error Spelling - RESPONSIBIL(I)TY

Fifty Dollars
ND2018, Last Prefix IB
Reverse
 
Five Dollars
The late Queen Elizabeth the Second (b.1926-2022)

nd2018, Parliament House in Canberra, ACT

Update: 24.08.2023 - Added Five dollars last prefix EJ18
Dimensions - 131mm x 66mm

Five Dollars ND2018
The late Queen Elizabeth the Second (b.1926-2022)

nd2018, Parliament House in Canberra, ACT