After issuing the new-look $5 note in April last year, the Reserve Bank of Australia has revealed the design of the new $10 notes that will be issued in September this year.
The RBA says the new note will have innovative new security features similar to the ones incorporated in the $5 note, to secure them from counterfeiting.
The new note will have two famous Australian writers, Dame Mary Gilmore and AB Banjo Paterson portrayed on either side of it.
AB Banjo Paterson on the new $10 design. Source: RBA
“Their work is recognised in several design elements on the banknote, including images of a pen nib in two of the clear windows and excerpts of their poetry in microprint,” said the Governor Philip Lowe.
Each banknote in the new series will feature a different species of native Australian wattle and bird. The $10 banknote features the Bramble Wattle and the Sulphur-crested Cockatoo.
Dame Mary Gilmore on the new $10 design. Source: RBA
The new design has retained the key aspects of the existing note- colour, size and people portrayed, for ease of recognition and to minimise the “disruption to business”.
The new banknote series will also have a ‘tactile’ feature to help the vision-impaired people distinguish between different denominations of banknotes.
Though the new banknotes will be issued in September, the RBA says it may take some time for them to be widely circulated and the existing series of $10 banknotes will continue to remain legal tender.
