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Australian Star Notes |
Between 1948 and 1971, Australia's banknote issuing authorities used notes produced in separate printing runs to
replace notes that were spoiled in the printing process. They were known as star notes because the last digit of
the serial number of each replacement note was an star (pre-decimal), or an asterisk.
The first notes to be replaced in this way were Ten Shilling, One Pound and Five Pound notes with the Armitage/Macfarlane
signature combination, printed in 1948.
For the initial five years of the decimal note series, the practice was continued. Notes produced in the special
print runs were identified by a serial number prefix commencing with the letter Z. The second letter identified
the denomination :
- A for $1 notes
- F for $2 notes
- N for $5 notes
- S for $10 notes
- X for $20 notes
The practice was stopped in 1971.
The third letter simply incremented as each series from 000001* to 100000* was completed.
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Example of a Pre-Decimal Star Replacement serial number
Example of a Decimal Star Replacement serial number
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