Australian ten-shilling note

This issue was payable in gold but subsequent issues were legal tender. The 1913 note was the world's first officially issued ten-shilling note. The first note, serial number M000001, was printed by Judith Denman, five-year-old daughter of the Governor-General of Australia, Lord Denman. The ten-shilling note was equivalent to one dollar upon decimalisation in 1966.

• Country — Australia • Denomination — Ten shillings • Value — ½ • Unit — Australian pound • Width Mm — 137 • Height Mm — 76 • Security Features — Watermark • Paper Type — Cotton • Years Of Printing — 1913–1966 • Obverse Design — Coat of arms of Australia (1908–12) • Obverse Designer —? • Obverse Design Date — 1913 Second issue (1918 note date) • Reverse Design — Goulburn Weir • Reverse Designer —? • Reverse Design Date — 1913 Second issue (1918 note date)

• James Collins and George Allen (1913, 1915) • [Charles John Cerutty] and James Collins (1918) • Denison Miller and James Collins (1923) • Kell and James Collins (1926) • Kell and James Heathershaw (1927) • Ernest Riddle and James Heathershaw (1928) • Ernest Riddle and Harry Sheehan (1933, 1934, 1936) • Harry Sheehan and Stuart McFarlane (1939) • Hugh Traill Armitage and Stuart McFarlane (1942) • H.C. Coombs and George Watt (1949) • H.C. Coombs and Roland Wilson (1952, 1954, 1961)