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Pathe Animated Gazette (Australasian Edition): The First Instalment of Australian Notes (c.1910)

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First Australian notes

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This newsreel item shows an Australian one pound banknote with 'Bank of New South Wales’ printed on it.

Curator’s notes

by Poppy De Souza

In 1910, the Australian Notes Act was passed giving the Commonwealth Treasury the authority to issue Australian notes. As an interim measure, the government overprinted private banknotes with the words ‘Australian Note’, an example of which is seen here.