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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 This $10 Portrait set was a failure at that time and the series was later withdrawn as it was not popular among collectors.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 January 2021

...Australia - $100 First Generation Polymer ND2017 Final Reprints

Commonwealth of Australia

Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA)
Currency - Dollar (AUD)

This is the last issue of the first polymer series and is only the denomination issued in (nd)2017. In 2016, the Reserve Bank of Australia commenced the release of the next generation of polymer banknotes and issued the $5 polymer note. Since then, the RBA has successfully released the entire series with the last note of $100 issued on 29/10/2020.

Very little has changed for this $100 note since it was first issued in 1996. However, in 2008, the reprints for these $100 notes were altered by including the names of Dame Nellie Melba and Sir John Monash to the notes. Dame Nellie Melba was an internationally renowned soprano and Sir John Monash was an engineer, soldier and a civic leader. The Monash University in Melbourne was named after him.

Signatures
Governor - Glenn Robert Stevens (tenure 2006-2016)
Secretary to the Treasury - John A Fraser (tenure 2015-2018)
Dimensions - 159mm x 65mm

Here I have posted the first prefix AA17 and also the last prefix HE17 notes.

One Hundred Dollars (AA17 first prefix)
nd2017, Dame Nellie Melba (b.1861-1931)
Reverse - Sir John Monash (b.1865-1931)

One Hundred Dollars (HE17 last prefix)
nd2017, Dame Nellie Melba (b.1861-1931)
Reverse - Sir John Monash (b.1865-1931)

Click here to read more about these two famous Australians.