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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 This $10 Portrait set was a failure at that time and the series was later withdrawn as it was not popular among collectors.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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25 September 2002

How the Portraits Are Rotated On The Australia Polymer Notes Series?

How can you tell which side is the front or back for the Australia polymer series?

Australia polymer notes are all printed with the portraits of famous people in this country. The notes are designed in such a manner that portraits of a female and male are rotated on each denomination.

For the first and second polymer series, the portrait printed are;-

$5 - Queen Elizabeth the ll / Parliament House,
$10 - AB Banjo Patterson / Mary Gilmore,
$20 - John Flynn / Mary Reibey,
$50 - Edith Cowan / David Unaipon, and
$100 - John Monash / Nellie Melba,
$5 - Sir Henry Parkes / Catherine Helen Spence (2001 commemorative)

As you can see from the above, only the $5 regular note is printed with the portrait of Queen Elizabeth the Second. So, how can you tell which side is the front and which one is the back?

The note printed with the signatures is the front and on the back is printed with the serial number. This is the same as those last paper decimal series.