Star Notes

Australian Star Notes Introduction Between 1948 and 1971, Australia’s banknote issuing authorities used notes produced in separate printing runs to replace notes that were spoiled in the printing process. They were known as star notes because the last digit of the serial number of each replacement note was an star (pre-decimal), or an asterisk. The first notes to be replaced in this way were Ten Shilling, One Pound and Five Pound notes with the Armitage/Macfarlane signature combination, printed in 1948. For the initial five years of the decimal note series, the practice was continued. Notes produced in the special print runs were identified by a serial number prefix commencing with the letter Z. The second letter identified the denomination : The third letter simply incremented as each series from 00000* to 10000* was completed. The practice was stopped in 1971. A for $1 notes F for $2 notes N for $5 notes S for $10 notes X for $20 notes

Example of a Pre-Decimal Star Replacement serial number Pre-Decimal Star Notes

Example of a Decimal Star Replacement serial number Decimal Star Notes

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updated; 11/05/2019