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NOTE SERIAL NUMBER INFORMATION

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For information on how serial numbers are allocated view our Numbering Australia's Notes page.

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Year	Denomination	Prefix	Serial Number Range		Signatures Governor/Secretary to Treasury
2007	$5	BA 07 – EA 07	999999	060001	Stevens/Henry
	$5	BA 07 – EA 07	056000	000001	Stevens/Henry
	$5	EB 07 – HB 07	420000	000001	Stevens/Henry
	$10	AA 07 – DF 07	999999	000001	Stevens/Henry
	$10	DG 07 – GL 07	999999	553803	Stevens/Henry
	$20	AA 07 – DA 07	999999	310001	Stevens/Henry
	$20	AA 07 – DA 07	005000	000001	Stevens/Henry
	$20	DB 07 – GB 07	999999	000001	Stevens/Henry
	$20	GC 07 – JC 07	999999	000001	Stevens/Henry
	$50	AA 07 – DA 07	829000	784001	Stevens/Henry
	$50	AA 07 – DA 07	680001	000001	Stevens/Henry

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Year	Denomination	Prefix	Serial Number Range		Signatures Governor/Secretary to Treasury
2006	$5	BA 06 – EA 06	999999	000001	Macfarlane/Henry
	$5	EB 06 – HB 06	999999	360001	Macfarlane/Henry
	$5	EB 06 – HB 06	260000	242501	Macfarlane/Henry
	$10	AA 06 – DF 06	999999	833501	Macfarlane/Henry
	$10	AA 06 – DF 06	830000	205501	Macfarlane/Henry
	$10	AA 06 – DF 06	205000	000001	Macfarlane/Henry
	$10	DG 06 – GL 06	999999	812001	Macfarlane/Henry
	$20	AA 06 – DA 06	999999	000001	Macfarlane/Henry
	$20	DB 06 – GB 06	999999	803001	Macfarlane/Henry
	$20	DB 06 – GB 06	800000	771101	Macfarlane/Henry
	$20	DB 06 – GB 06	770000	000001	Macfarlane/Henry
	$20	GC 06 – JC 06	999999	790001	Macfarlane/Henry
	$50	AA 06 – DA 06	999999	804501	Macfarlane/Henry
	$50	AA 06 – DA 06	802500	790860	Macfarlane/Henry
	$50	AA 06 – DA 06	790000	000001	Macfarlane/Henry
	$50	DB 06 – GB 06	999999	551001	Macfarlane/Henry
	$50	DB 06 – GB 06	550000	000001	Macfarlane/Henry
	$50	GC 06 – JC 06	999999	235501	Macfarlane/Henry

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Year	Denomination	Prefix	Serial Number Range		Signatures Governor/Secretary to Treasury
2005	$5	BA 05 – EA 05	999999	000001	Macfarlane/Henry
	$5	EB 05 – HB 05	999999	000001	Macfarlane/Henry
	$5	HC 05 – KC 05	999999	910037	Macfarlane/Henry
	$20	AA 05 – DA 05	999999	000001	Macfarlane/Henry
	$20	DB 05 – GB 05	999999	080001	Macfarlane/Henry
	$50	AA 05 – DA 05	999999	000001	Macfarlane/Henry
	$50	DB 05 – GB 05	999999	000001	Macfarlane/Henry
	$50	GC 05 – JC 05	999999	295501	Macfarlane/Henry

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Year	Denomination	Prefix	Serial Number Range		Signatures Governor/Secretary to Treasury
2004	$50	AA 04 – DA 04	999999	153501	Macfarlane/Henry
	$50	AA 04 – DA 04	130000	000001	Macfarlane/Henry
	$50	DB 04 – GB 04	999999	572501	Macfarlane/Henry

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Year	Denomination	Prefix	Serial Number Range		Signatures Governor/Secretary to Treasury
2003	$5	BA 03 – EA 03	999999	000001	Macfarlane/Henry
	$10	AA 03 – DF 03	742500	000001	Macfarlane/Henry
	$20	AA 03 – DA 03	260000	008001	Macfarlane/Henry
	$50	AA 03 – DA 03	820000	000001	Macfarlane/Henry

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Year	Denomination	Prefix	Serial Number Range		Signatures Governor/Secretary to Treasury
2002	$5	BA 02 – EA 02	870000	000001	Macfarlane/Henry
	$10	AA 02 – DF 02	999999	000001	Macfarlane/Henry
	$10	DG 02 – GL 02	999999	670001	Macfarlane/Henry
	$20*	AA 02 – DD 02	999999	000001	Macfarlane/Henry
	$20*	DE 02 – GH 02	999999	000001	Macfarlane/Henry
	$20*	GJ 02 – KM 02	999999	401001	Macfarlane/Henry
*The letter �I' not used in prefixes for this print run.

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Year	Denomination	Prefix	Serial Number Range		Signatures Governor/Secretary to Treasury
2001	$5Fed*	AA 01 – AA 01	999999	200001	Macfarlane/Evans
	$5Fed*	AB 01 – DB 01	999999	160001	Macfarlane/Evans
	$5Fed*	DC 01 – GC 01	999999	000001	Macfarlane/Evans
	$5Fed*	GD 01 – JD 01	999999	630001	Macfarlane/Evans
*Federation $5 note issued to commemorate Australia's Centenary of Federation.

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Year	Denomination	Prefix	Serial Number Range		Signatures Governor/Secretary to Treasury
1999	$50	AA 99 – DA 99	999999	050001	Macfarlane/Evans
	$50	DB 99 – GB 99	999999	000001	Macfarlane/Evans
	$50	GC 99 – JC 99	999999	000001	Macfarlane/Evans
	$50	JD 99 – MD 99	999999	000001	Macfarlane/Evans
	$50	ME 99 – PE 99	999999	888001	Macfarlane/Evans
	$100	AA 99 – CF 99	999999	050001	Macfarlane/Evans
	$100	CG 99 – EL 99	999999	000001	Macfarlane/Evans
	$100	EM 99 – HE 99	999999	000001	Macfarlane/Evans
	$100	HF 99 – JK 99	999999	833501	Macfarlane/Evans

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Year Denomination Prefix Serial
Number Range Signatures
Governor/Secretary to Treasury

1998

$5

BA 98 – EA 98

999999

013001

Macfarlane/Evans

$10

AA 98 – DF 98

999999

050001

Macfarlane/Evans

$10

DG 98 – GL 98

999999

490001

Macfarlane/Evans

$20

AA 98 – DA 98

999999

119501

Macfarlane/Evans

$50

AA 98 – DA 98

999999

050001

Macfarlane/Evans

$50

DB 98 – GB 98

999999

000001

Macfarlane/Evans

$50

GC 98 – JC 98

999999

960001

Macfarlane/Evans

$100

AA 98 – CF 98

999999

444501

Macfarlane/Evans

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Year	Denomination	Prefix	Serial Number Range		Signatures Governor/Secretary to Treasury
1997	$5	BA 97 – EA 97	999999	000001	Macfarlane/Evans
	$5	EB 97 – HB 97	999999	864001	Macfarlane/Evans
	$5*	AN 97 – DN 97	999999	990229	Macfarlane/Evans
	$10	AA 97 – DF 97	999999	489501	Macfarlane/Evans
	$20	AA 97 – DA 97	999999	050001	Macfarlane/Evans
	$20	DB 97 – GB 97	999999	793001	Macfarlane/Evans
	$50	AA 97 – DA 97	999999	050001	Macfarlane/Evans
	$50	DB 97 – GB 97	999999	000001	Macfarlane/Evans
	$50	GC 97 – JC 97	999999	514001	Macfarlane/Evans
*Test notes issued for trial of static free substrate (prefixes used were AN to AZ, BN to BZ and CN to DN).

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Year	Denomination	Prefix	Serial Number Range		Signatures Governor/Secretary to Treasury
1996	$5	BA 96 – EA 96	999999	439001	Fraser/Evans
	$5	BA 96 – EA 96	439000	325001	Macfarlane/Evans
	$10	AA 96 – DF 96	999999	850001	Macfarlane/Evans
	$20	AA 96 – DA 96	999999	181001	Fraser/Evans
	$50	AA 96 – DA 96	999999	373001	Fraser/Evans
	$100	AA 96 – CF 96	999999	050001	Fraser/Evans
	$100	CG 96 – EL 96	999999	000001	Fraser/Evans
	$100	EM 96 – HE 96	999999	000001	Fraser/Evans
	$100	HF 96 – JK 96	999999	757501	Fraser/Evans
	$100*	AN 96 – CS 96	999999	648001	Fraser/Evans
*Test notes issued for trial of static free substrate (prefixes used were AN to AZ, BN to BZ and CN to CS).

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Year	Denomination	Prefix	Serial Number Range		Signatures Governor/Secretary to Treasury
1995	$5	AA 95 – AA 95	210000	010001	Fraser/Evans
	$5	BA 95 – EA 95	999999	010001	Fraser/Evans
	$5	EB 95 – HB 95	999999	000001	Fraser/Evans
	$5	HC 95 – KC 95	999999	233001	Fraser/Evans
	$20	AA 95 – DA 95	999999	246501	Fraser/Evans
	$50	AA 95 – DA 95	999999	050001	Fraser/Evans
	$50	DB 95 – GB 95	999999	000001	Fraser/Evans
	$50	GC 95 – JC 95	999999	000001	Fraser/Evans
	$50	JD 95 – MD 95	999999	000001	Fraser/Evans
	$50	ME 95 – PE 95	999999	000001	Fraser/Evans
	$50	PF 95 – SF 95	999999	000001	Fraser/Evans
	$50	SG 95 – VG 95	999999	620001	Fraser/Evans

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Year Denomination Prefix Serial
Number Range Signatures
Governor/Secretary to Treasury

1994

$10

AA 94 – DF 94

999999

615795

Fraser/Evans

$20

AA 94 – DA 94

999999

010001

Fraser/Evans

$20

DB 94 – GB 94

999999

000001

Fraser/Evans

$20

GC 94 – JC 94

999999

000001

Fraser/Evans

$20

JD 94 – MD 94

999999

000001

Fraser/Evans

$20

ME 94 – PE 94

999999

820001

Fraser/Evans

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Year	Denomination	Prefix	Serial Number Range		Signatures Governor/Secretary to Treasury
1993*	$5	BA 93 – EA 93	999999	445001	Fraser/Evans
	$10	AA 93 – DF 93	999999	010001	Fraser/Evans
	$10	DG 93 – GL 93	999999	000001	Fraser/Evans
	$10	GM 93 – KE 93	999999	083501	Fraser/Evans
*Introduction of the �year dated' prefix structure.

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Year	Denomination	Prefix	Serial Number Range		Signatures Governor/Secretary to Treasury
1992	$5*	AA 00 – AA 39	999999	006001	Fraser/Cole
	$5*	AA 40 – AA 79	999999	000001	Fraser/Cole
	$5*	AA 80 – AB 19	999999	222001	Fraser/Cole
*Consecutive numerical prefixes used for this print run.

Disclaimer

Some of the note prefix and serial number information has been compiled from incomplete records, and it is possible that notes have been issued with serial numbers outside of those published in the above tables. While every effort has been made by the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) to ensure the information is correct, the RBA accepts no liability for the accuracy or completeness of the information, nor any responsibility for financial loss or damage resulting from use of the information. The RBA recommends that users exercise care and judgement when using the information. (Back to text)