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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 This $10 Portrait set was a failure at that time and the series was later withdrawn as it was not popular among collectors.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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15 June 2025

...Australia - 2019 $20 Lowe and Fraser 1st and Last Prefixes

Commonwealth of Australia

Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA)
Currency : Dollar (AUD)
 
Here are the two notes of $20 nd2019 bearing the signatures of: -
 
Governor - Philip Lowe (tenure 18.09.2016-17.09.2023)
Secretary To The Treasury - John Arthur Fraser (tenure 15.01.2015-31.07.2018)
Sizes - 145mm x 67mm

The two notes posted here are the first prefix AA19 and last prefix EA19. Both notes are in UNC condition, and I have had these in my collection for a few years now. Obviously, I paid a high premium for these two notes, but I believe it's worth it.
 
I have posted this note before in one of my previous posts but that note has a normal prefix. 
 

 
Front - Portrait of Mary Reibey (b.1777-1855). Mary Reibey, was an English-born woman who arrived in Australia in 1792 as a convict for stealing a horse in 1791. After gaining her freedom, together with her husband, Thomas Reibey, they successfully ran several businesses as merchant, shipowner and trader. When her husband died in 1811, she took over the family business. In addition to the various businesses she owned, she also owned farms, a sealing operation, and invested in property. It is also interesting to know that she was one of the founding members of the Bank of New South Wales (established 1817, now Commonwealth Bank). Mary Reibey died from pneumonia at the good old age of 78. 

 
 
John Flynn (b.1880-1951) - A pioneered the world's first aerial medical service in 1928. The aim was to spread a 'mantle of safety' across 7.65 million square kilometers of outback. Today, we know this as the Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS). It's still the largest and most comprehensive aeromedical emergency and healthcare service in the world. His stories are told through a RFDS De Havilland aircraft leaving a remote Broken Hill homestead in 1948 and a pedal-powered transceiver used by the service to improve communication in remote areas.
 
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