Sir Douglas Mawson, our great Antarctic explorer. Commemorated with the honor of featuring on the obverse side of our first Australian $100 bank note. If you were not already familiar with his achievements you will be now if you have been following our series. His legendary story of courage, bravery and survival has sparked an […]
Monthly Archives: January 2009
$10.00 Johnston/Fraser 1985 FLAP. Cause: One corner of the sheet has folded prior to trimming into individual banknotes. Continuing our series on one of the profitable investments today – rare banknote collecting – in this issue we examine one of its quirkier sides – and dare I say one dear to us all – other […]
Immortalised on a banknote a sure way to ensure you go down in history! So who gets this honour? In the last edition we examined the complexities involved in the lengthy process of banknote design. An arduous task but one with definite prestige assured for the designer chosen. But, perhaps, even greater distinction goes to […]
While the £1,000 pound note only exists as a few cancelled examples on the numismatic market, the Hundred Pound Notes have from time to time turned up in auctions. On May 31 1945, it was declared that ‘from August 31 1945 that all notes above £10 would not be legal tender’. In 1950 there were […]
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The Colt from Old Regret had got away, and ‘was worth a thousand pound’ a sum that ‘drew all the tried and noted riders from the stations near and far’ according to Banjo Paterson when he published his poem in the Bulletin magazine in 1890. A fantastic sum of money at the time! An amount […]
If you have been following our series you will remember that in the last issue we undertook a brief examination of error notes, notes that never should have made it past the starting gate but somehow slipped through and now provide a fascinating and unique (not to mention lucrative) form of collecting. Now we are […]