Fake/Forged/Copied Notes Do Really Exist!

I was on a $10 without serials note post the other day when I mentioned that I purchased a $10 Coombs Wilson forgery from IAG not too long ago.

I'm into my $50's as I'm sure a lot of you know. I actually got handed a fake $50 the other day in the shop & I spotted it straight up as soon as I saw the note. I said to my regular, "That's a fake!" & she was like, what do you mean? where I replied it's a fake. I said to her that I'm a collector. She was like are any of the rest of them fake? I assume the bank had just given her a bundle ($500 worth)of $50's. Then she scrunched it (& I was thinking...NO! you can't do that). She said I'll take it back to the bank & I said, I can do it for you, the guys at the bank know me well. That's not going to the bank, that's staying in my collection. I've been waiting to see a fake note come in & it has finally happened. I've had a handful of fake $2's come in, but about time a note came in.

Below is my collection of notes that I have had in my possession in the past? Is that the best was to phrase it?

Here was the one from IAG: Coombs/Wilson, apparently it was a common forgery back then, which is why they started working on the Polymer's not too soon after the decimal currency began in Australia.


A reasonably impressive $10, looks better in person, but extremely creased. It actually has the wavey plastic pressed lines on the window. That's what I call effort. But I think that note's passed its use-by & it's time to go back to the mint for shredding:


A horrible effort on a $10...look at the WINDOW? Is it suppose to look like a palm tree?


The first fake/forged/copied note I have seen in circulation. A reasonable effort. A non-collector would know no different.


ALL OF THIS IS JUST A STORY...apparently