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Australia paper money catalog and Australian currency history

• A brief monetary history:
  • British currency, till 1914
  • Australian Pound = 20 Shillings = 240 Pence, till 1966
  • Australian Dollar = (0.50 Pound) = 100 Cents, from 1966

• Australian currency is used:
  • Keeling - Cocos Islands
  • Hutt River Province
  • Ashmore and Cartier Islands, Norfolk Island, Christmas Islands, Heard and McDonald Islands, Nauru, Coral Sea Islands, Tuvalu and Kiribati
  • Fanning Islands (now Kiribati)
  • Papua New Guinea, 1914-1975
  • Solomon Islands, 1920-1977

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Pick #	Date
		British Collony till 1942
1-2A	(1913-24)	5, 10 shillings, 1, 1, 1.000 pounds
3-9	(1913-8)	10 shillings, 1, 5, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100 pounds
10-14	(1923-8)	1/2 sovereign, 1, 1, 5, 10 pounds
15-18	(1926-33)	1/2 sovereign, 1, 5, 10 pounds
19-24	(1933-9)	10, 10, 10 shillings, 1, 5, 10 pounds
25-28	(1939-52)	10 shillings, 1, 5, 10 pounds
		State
29-32	(1953-60)	10 shillings, 1, 5, 10 pounds
33-36	(1960-65)	10 shillings, 1, 5, 10 pounds
37-41	(1966-72)	1, 2, 5, 10, 20 $
42-48	(1973-94)	1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100 $
49	(1988)	10 $; commemorative; "Bicentennial of the British Settlement (1788-1988)"
50-55	(1992-)	5, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100 $
56	2001	5 $; commemorative; "Centennial of the Commonwealth (1901-2001)"
57-61	(2002-)	5, 10, 20, 50, 100 $
62-	(2016-)	5, 10, 20, 50, 100 $