THE AUSTRALIAN 5 DOLLAR NOTE

This is a 5 dollar note from 1995. The front has QE 2 and the gum tree or eucalyptus on the left and in the bottom right ckear window. On the reverse is two parliament buildings (old and new) in Canberra.

ORGANISING YOUR COLLECTION

There are loads of way to organise your collection of banknotes. most will depend on why you are collecting. I organise my one by country a-z but you could use subject or denomination for instance.

By subject could be :

ANIMALS

the above are from Antarctica, Congo democratic republic and Belarus

or BIRDS

from Singapore, Suriname and Zambia

or Women on banknotes ( not very many of them)

from Slovakia, Luxembourg, Italy and The Czech Republic

but of course there is one woman who are on loads of notes. Bahamas, Bermuda, British Honduras, Cayman Islands, Canada, Jersey, New Zealand, Australia, St Helena, Hong Kong, Gibraltar, jersey, Fiji, Falkland islands, Eastern Caribbean States, and of course Great Britain all have Queen Elizabeth II on their notes:

Other Possibles could be  Buildings, Revolutionaries , Presidents, Kings, Queens, Jobs or you could list them as you find them !!!

Finally you could list them by denomination;

Bolivars from Venezuela and Bolivia

Dollar from 30 countries from Australia to Zimbabwe

I think the rule here is that there are no rules 

AUSTRALIA

Australia has the distinction of being the smallest continent and the largest island in the world. its currency was pounds until 1966 and then the dollar. it is still part of the British commonwealth.

Surprisingly , this is the only Australian banknote i have in my collection. its a 1 dollar note from 1983 (i think) - there are lots of years with the same design , so it comes down to the signature john stone is fine but the other looks like it may be R A Johnston if it is then its 1983. the reverse has aboriginal art. Australia was the first to produce a polymer note in 1988 and are now commonplace there.