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This is a list of people who have appeared on currency issued by Australia since that country introduced its own notes and coins in 1910.. Those appearing on the current series are shown in bold.
When Australia was part of the fixed-exchange sterling area, the exchange rate of the Australian dollar was fixed to the pound sterling at a rate of A$1 = 8 U.K. shillings (A$2.50 = UK£1). In 1967, Australia effectively left the sterling area, when the pound sterling was devalued against the US dollar and the Australian dollar did not follow.
The Australian dollar (sign: $; code: AUD; also abbreviated A$ or sometimes AU$ to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies; [2] [3] and also referred to as the dollar or Aussie dollar) is the official currency and legal tender of Australia, including all of its external territories, and three independent sovereign Pacific Island states: Kiribati, Nauru, and Tuvalu.
The Australian dollar replaced the Australian pound on 14 February 1966 as part of the decimalisation process. [6] At this time, 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, and 50 cent coins were issued. [6] $1 coins were first issued in 1984, [7] and $2 coins soon followed in 1988. The one- and two-cent coins were discontinued in 1990 and withdrawn from circulation in ...
The new $50 note was released for circulation on 18 October 2018, [20] followed by the new $20 note on 9 October 2019, [21] and the new $100 was released on the 29 October 2020. [ 22 ] [ 23 ] The Reserve Bank currently has no plans to release fourth series notes in denominations higher than $100, despite the amount of inflation that has ...
"Design of the new decimal currency", first broadcast by the ABC in 1964. The Royal Australian Mint has announced that, following the death of Queen Elizabeth II in 2022, it will produce one million $1 coins bearing King Charles' face in 2023 [1] with the new effigy to fully replace a temporary memorial effigy of Queen Elizabeth II by May 2024. [2]
With a diameter of 31.65 millimetres (1.246 in) across flats, [1] the 50-cent coin is one of the largest in volume among those currently circulating in the world. One coin of larger diameter is the Costa Rican five-hundred- colón (32.9 millimetres (1.30 in)); the larger [ 6 ] fifty- franc (CFP) (32.9 millimetres (1.30 in)) discontinued in ...