5 Dollars, Reserve Bank of Australia

This copy

Accession

OM-00179

Series year

1995

Actually issued

1995

Signatures

This issue carries no bank manager or cashier signature.

Grade

VF (IBNS)

Light handling; polymer, no folds. Estimated from the archival scan. Folds, soiling and edge condition are visible at this resolution; paper crispness, pinholes, small repairs and pressing are not.

Estimated value

$3 indicative

Category benchmark scaled for grade — an order of magnitude, not an appraisal. Priced 2026-09-07.

Dimensions

132.1 × 65.8 mm (±0.5, from the scan)

Themes

ModernPolymerOceania

The type

Type

5 Dollars, Reserve Bank of Australia

Portrait

Elizabeth II

Printer

Not established

Rarity

common

Inscriptions

Obverse — legal tender

This Australian note is legal tender throughout Australia and its territories

Legal tender throughout Australia and its territories

Symbology

Portrait of Elizabeth II

The sovereign, on polymer.

Polymer substrate

Australia issued the first polymer banknotes in 1988; the clear window is a security device no press can reproduce.

What was happening

A circulating national banknote of the modern era: a central bank, a national portrait, and a currency backed by nothing but the institution that issues it — the arrangement every note earlier in this collection was either trying to establish or failing to maintain.

This account belongs to the type, not this copy — it is shared by every 5 Dollars, Reserve Bank of Australia in the collection.