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670:, Australia left the gold standard, resulting in a devaluation relative to sterling. A variety of pegs to sterling applied until December 1931, when the government devalued the local unit by 20%, making one Australian pound equal to 16 shillings sterling and one pound sterling equal to 25 Australian shillings.
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detailed arrangement that would be necessary to effect the change. On 7 April 1963 the
Commonwealth Government announced that a system of decimal currency was to be introduced into Australia at the earliest practicable date, and gave February 1966, as the tentative change-over date. On 14 February 1966, a
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In
February 1959 the Commonwealth Government appointed a Decimal Currency Committee to investigate the advantages and disadvantages of a decimal currency, and, if a decimal currency was favoured, the unit of account and denominations of subsidiary currency most appropriate for Australia, the method
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In 1946, the fineness of
Australian silver sixpences, shillings, and florins was reduced to .500, a quarter of a century after the same change had been made in Britain. In New Zealand and the United Kingdom, silver was soon abandoned completely in everyday coinage, but Australian .500 silver coins
794:
In 1855, gold full and half sovereigns (worth, respectively, £1 and 10/– sterling) were first minted by the Sydney Mint. These coins were the only non-Imperial denominations issued by any of the
Australian mints until after Federation (the Sydney Mint struck Imperial gold sovereigns and
602:
As a transitional measure lasting three years, blank note forms of 16 banks were supplied to the government in 1911 to be overprinted as redeemable in gold and issued as the first
Commonwealth notes. Some of these banknotes were overprinted by the Treasury, and circulated as Australian banknotes
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The committee presented its report in August 1960. It recommended the introduction of the new system on the second Monday in
February 1963. In July 1961 the Commonwealth Government confirmed its support of a decimal currency system, but considered it undesirable to make final decisions on the
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Coins of the
Australian pound also circulated freely in New Zealand, although they were never legal tender. By 1931, Australian coins made up approximately 30% of the total circulation in New Zealand. The devaluation of Australian and New Zealand exchange rates relative to the
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The pound (in banknote form) was first issued in
Australia in 1910 by a limited number of Australian chartered banks. The first year of issue for the Commonwealth of Australia Treasury Note pound was 1913. The pictured note is from the 1913 second issue (printed in
810:(worth 2/6) was ever issued. Bronze ½d and 1d coins followed in 1911. Production of half sovereigns ceased in 1916, followed by that of sovereigns in 1931. In 1937 a crown (5/– piece, known as a Dollar) was issued to commemorate the coronation of King
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Under the implementation conversion rate, £A1 was set as the equivalent of $ 2. Thus, ten shillings became $ 1 and one shilling became 10¢. As a shilling was equal to twelve pence, a new cent was worth slightly more than a penny.
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was passed imposing a prohibitive tax of 10% per annum on "all bank notes issued or re-issued by any bank in the
Commonwealth after the commencement of this Act, and not redeemed", which effectively ended the use of
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British government removed sterling from the gold standard. When it was returned to the gold standard in 1925, the sudden increase in its value (imposed by the nominal gold price) unleashed crushing
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countries with which Australia did most of its external trade at the time. As one pound sterling went from US$ 4.03 to US$ 2.80, the Australian pound went from US$ 3.224 to US$ 2.24.
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Examples of private issue paper currency in New South Wales, denominated in sterling, exist from 1814 (and may date back to the 1790s). Denominated in sterling (and in some cases
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Decimalisation had been proposed for Australian currency since 1902, when a select committee of the
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coins were minted in denominations of 3d, 6d, 1/– and 2/– (known as a Trey, Zac, Deena, and
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The Australian currency was fixed in value to sterling. As such Australia was on the
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and the subsequent 1926 deflation had far-reaching economic effects throughout the
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distinguished between "British coin" and "Australian coin", giving both status as
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in 1913. The Commonwealth Bank Act of 1920 gave note-issuing authority to the
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the right to legislate with respect to "currency, coinage, and legal tender".
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half sovereigns starting in 1871, and the Melbourne Mint starting in 1872).
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The establishment of a separate Australian currency was contemplated by
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Standard Catalog of World Paper Money General Issues (1368–1960)
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printed by the Commonwealth of Australia, among a collection of
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In 1949, when the United Kingdom devalued sterling against the
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from 1910 until 14 February 1966, when it was replaced by the
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Changing Fortunes: A History of the Australian Treasury
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City Bank of Sydney in Australia cancelled £20 banknote
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1155:"The Commonwealth Bank and the note issue: 1920–1960"
1079:. Federal Register of Legislation. 16 September 1910
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818:continued to be minted until after decimalisation.
417:at par, then at £A 1 = 16 shillings sterling
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507:section 51(xii) of the Constitution of Australia
1173:"Tables of modern monetary history: Australia"
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1201:"Report from the Select Committee on Coinage"
684:and the issuing of the first coinage of the
1324:Renniks Australian Coin and Banknote Values
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1177:"Tables of modern monetary history: Asia"
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570:Commonwealth of Australia, £1 (1918)
3156:1966 disestablishments in Australia
1026:. Melbourne University Publishing.
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1224:Commonwealth of Australia (1963).
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1363:Commonwealth Pre-Decimal Currency
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828:Banknotes of the Australian pound
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658:pressures. Both the initial 1914
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2819:Australian Securities Exchange
1321:Pitt, Michael T., ed. (2013).
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387:Commonwealth Bank of Australia
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3161:Economic history of Australia
3121:Currencies introduced in 1910
2443:Historical antecedents (mass)
1226:"Chapter 20. Private finance"
942:
790:Coins of the Australian pound
756:(two shillings) as its base.
608:National Library of Australia
3058:Australia–United Kingdom FTA
2662:Australian Capital Territory
2354:Rhodesia and Nyasaland pound
1369:Australian Pre-Decimal Coins
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806:respectively). Unusually no
314:; 114 years ago
27:Former currency of Australia
7:
3033:Australia–United States FTA
2923:National Electricity Market
2509:Carolingian monetary system
1112:Jordan Hayne (5 May 2015),
1100:Reserve Bank of Australia,
916:British currency in Oceania
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3151:Modern obsolete currencies
2778:Minerals Resource Rent Tax
2339:Prince Edward Island pound
2073:British West African pound
1980:Local alternative currency
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1136:British Numismatic Journal
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1833:Reserve Bank of Australia
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1076:Australian Notes Act 1910
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581:Australian Notes Act 1910
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2763:Goods & Services Tax
2394:South West African pound
2384:Southern Rhodesian pound
1182:19 February 2007 at the
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746:House of Representatives
700:produced currency notes
650:so long as Britain was.
612:first £A 1 banknote
487:(denoted by the symbol
475:(denoted by the symbol
3126:Currencies of Australia
3053:Indonesia–Australia FTA
2187:Italian Somaliland lira
1822:Note Printing Australia
1186:(India's section), and
798:In 1910, .925 fineness
706:intended to be occupied
591:Bank Notes Tax Act 1910
2600:Snowy Mountains Scheme
2575:Banking crisis of 1893
2219:Lombardo-Venetian lira
1919:Falkland Islands pound
1126:Stocker, Mark (2005).
1102:"History of Banknotes"
975:classic.austlii.edu.au
846:Commonwealth banknotes
842:superscribed banknotes
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253:£20, £50, £100, £1,000
2374:Solomon Islands pound
2125:French colonial livre
1874:Currency units named
1805:Royal Australian Mint
1355:22 April 2021 at the
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678:led to New Zealand's
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586:Commonwealth Treasury
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330:14 February 1966
2964:Poverty in Australia
2556:Economy of Australia
2429:Western Samoan pound
2379:South Carolina pound
2294:North Carolina pound
1951:South Sudanese pound
1375:Coins from Australia
720:Post-war devaluation
309:Date of introduction
3043:Japan–Australia FTA
3038:China–Australia FTA
3023:Australia–Korea FTA
3018:Australia–Chile FTA
2979:Wealth in Australia
2959:Income in Australia
2942:Economic conditions
2838:Regulatory agencies
2797:Banking and Finance
2585:Four pillars policy
2264:New Hampshire pound
2254:New Brunswick pound
2249:Massachusetts pound
1468:Australian currency
1431:2 dollars = 1 pound
1307:, pp. 163–175.
1230:Year Book Australia
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2865:Corporations power
2814:Official cash rate
2718:Telecommunications
2404:Tripolitanian lira
2389:South African pond
2344:Rhode Island pound
2324:Pennsylvania pound
2299:Nova Scotian pound
2284:Newfoundland pound
1944:Saint Helena pound
1475:Decimal ($ 1=100c)
1407:1910 – 1966
1377:– Online Coin Club
1295:, pp. 158–59.
898:Numismatics portal
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327:Date of withdrawal
249: Rarely used
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2647:Western Australia
2616:Australian dollar
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2279:New Zealand pound
2259:New Guinean pound
2145:Saint Lucia livre
2088:Connecticut pound
1971:Ukrainian hryvnia
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911:New Zealand pound
906:Australian dollar
850:Commonwealth Bank
686:New Zealand pound
606:In May 2015, the
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465:Australian dollar
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2580:Economic history
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2364:Sammarinese lira
2269:New Jersey pound
2229:Luxembourg livre
2140:New France livre
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2012:Stroud pound
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