Contains everything you ever wanted to know about Australia's decimal notes.

Michael Vort-Ronald is without peer when it comes to researching and writing about Australian banknotes. His passion for this area of our numismatic history has seen him unearth a huge amount of information on the background of all of Australia's banknotes, from the time before Federation to the present day.

His popular work on our paper decimal banknotes was revised in 2000, and re-released with updated information on the later paper decimal notes, and the polymer notes that were not covered in the first edition. If you collect decimal notes (paper or polymer), you simply must get this book!

In it youll find:

• Background to the introduction of decimal currency in 1966;
• Information on each of the designers of our decimal notes;
• Extensive information on the printing process;
• Brief biographical notes on each of Australia's note signatories;
• Information on specimen and star replacement notes;
• Highly detailed information on each and every signature and design variety in the decimal note series;
• An explanation of how printing errors come about;
• An insight into counterfeit and forged notes; as well as
• Statistics on the number of notes issued throughout Australia.