Early Australian Polymer Notes

Brett,

Print numbers for those requested are:

DA96 $20 819,000

AB19 $5 778,000

Can't help you with AB57 $10 (1988) - I suggest you contact Trevor Wilkins at polymernotes.com.au

Cheers

Peter (notcb)

The simple answer to that question is that in 1992, not many people were collectors of first and last prefixes, especially last prefixes, as very few people knew when the notes for that year would have stopped being printed.

Even though there were almost 800,000 of the last prefix, most would have just been in general circulation and been destroyed by the time people started to be interested in collecting first and last prefixes.

From memory (and memory is always a bit questionable with an old timer like me), heightened interest in first and last prefixes began when the Reserve Bank began releasing that sort of information readily on the net around 2001.

Prior to that, the information was NOT freely available unless you were privy to employees or other private sources of information.

Cheers

Peter (notcb )

Good luck with your collecting Brett. 90s polymers are a particularly challenging subject. Many of the last prefixes are pretty much impossible to get in UNC.

Of the $5, The KC95 is the hardest one to get. Its also worth remembering that the 1996 $5 come in 2 signature combinations, Fraser/Evans and MacFarlane/Evans. Of the two last prefixes for that year the EA96 MacFarlane/Evans is the hardest one to find.