Australian dollar

The Australian dollar, AUD or A$, is the official currency of the Commonwealth of Australia, including the Australian Antarctic Territory, Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Heard Island and McDonald Islands and Norfolk Island, as well as the independent Pacific island states of Kiribati, Nauru and Tuvalu. It is sometimes affectionately called the "Aussie battler"; during a low period (relative to the US dollar) around 2001 and 2002 the currency was sometimes locally called the "Pacific Peso."

Former banknotes and coins in decimal currency

There have been two basic issues of decimal currency. The first paper issues of Australian dollars, issued in 1966, featured portraits of the following persons:

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Decimal currency - 1966

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• One dollar ? Elizabeth II (front); Aboriginal art designed by David Malangi (reverse)
• Two dollars ? John Macarthur (front); William Farrer (reverse)
• Five dollars ? Joseph Banks (front); Caroline Chisholm (reverse)
• Ten dollars ? Francis Greenway (front); Henry Lawson (reverse)
• Twenty dollars ? Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith (front); Lawrence Hargrave (reverse)
• Fifty dollars (first issued 1973) ? Howard Florey (front); Ian Clunies Ross (reverse)
• Hundred dollars (first issued 1984) ? Douglas Mawson (front); John Tebbutt (reverse)

Copper one cent and two cent coins were withdrawn from circulation in 1991. The one cent coin featured a sugar glider and the two cent coin a frill-necked lizard.

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Copper - 1991 - Sugar glider - Frill-necked lizard

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