Ah pineapples that’s what sometimes these notes are referred to as the paper 50 dollar notes up to 15 dollars value depending on particular features and uh details so we’ll jump right in have a look at everything to do with the paper Australian 50 dollar notes let’s cut straight to the details Rennix Australian Coin and banknote values book for the values and this is the page we got the 50 paper notes here from 1973 through to 1995 so yeah you see here 73 and then the different years they were produced down to 1993 which is the start of the last run of these notes and all of these figures here are the values depending on the condition of the note and different attributes so we can see here $1,500 for an uncirculated UNC stands for uncirculated banknote from 1973 and that’s a last prefix so it has to have the y a U before the serial number for it to be that banknote not many of them made and that’s the value right there but there lots of different values depending on condition so these condition gradings up here um if you knew in this book you go to the page before the $1 notes so I’ll just show you oop going back a couple more pages of the $1 notes page the page before it it has the um condition grading definitions right here so see F V F E F E F a U N C and uncirculated there so you can read those definitions of if you’ve got a bank note you read the definition and match it up with the condition grading and then you can go back to your page on at the 50 dollar notes and you can just find it right here oop no that’s the 20 still let’s go and then you can match up the condition grading with the year you’ve got now you also need to know which year it is too so yep should have covered that first but uh see here it’s got Phillips Wheeler or it’s got Knight Wheeler or Knightstone there are signatures on the banknotes so here you see down the bottom here there’s little signatures here that’s a Johnston stone right there but when you’re starting out it’s hard to determine what those signatures are so again you turn to that page before the $1 notes and it has a signature chart so you can identify which ones they are so few pages back here we go so the banknote signature identification chart for decimal notes so all of these signatures appear on the banknotes here in Australia and you can determine which signatures they are to work out which year your notes are from and then you can look at the condition and you can um work out a relative value so this book has it’s a bit of a guide these values in this book but it’s a Good guide I think and um yeah a way you go from there who’s on the 50 dollar note and why so we got notable Australians historical figures portrayed on Australia’s banknotes so this book from the uh Reserve Bank of Australia and yeah this page right here this is on this side of the banknote uh this gentleman right here and let’s have a little bit of a look at who he is so it’s Sir Ian Clooney’s Ross Sir Ian Clunie’s Rice 1899 to 1959 began to study veterinary science at the university of Sydney in 1918 he specialised in the study of parasites and was appointed the first parasitical parasitologist for the council of scientific and Industrial Research the C s I R in 1926 at the time when it was focusing on improving the health of animals especially sheep by 1840 oh sorry 1949 Clooney’s Ross was appointed chairman of its successor the Commonwealth Scientific Industrial Research Organisation C s I R O and he became an influential advocate for the public benefits of science research and education Lord Casey the Liberal minister who had been responsible for the C s I R O observed in a memorial speech that in the last 10 years of his life he used his remarkable talents as scientist, administrator and publicist in building up CSIR and making it a household word throughout the country the banknote included representation of the radio telescope of the CSIR’s Parks Observatory in New South Wales, which has become one of the symbols of the country’s scientific advancement. Since its establishment in 1961, the observatory has made a series of discoveries. In 1969, it received signals from the Apollo 11 moon landing, which were relayed worldwide. Yes. So there you go. So we’ve got him right here and he’s the radio telescope in the background there. So that’s C, s, I, R, O. And, um, very nice. Cool. Let’s take a look at this side of the banknote. And here’s the portrait of the gentleman that features on there. And his name is Lord Howard Florrie. So let’s take a look. Lord Howard Florrie, 1898 to 1968, played a vital role in the development of penicillin as an antibiotic drug. Although Alexander Fleming had discovered penicillin in 19, its medical curative benefits had not been developed. Florey conducted experimental work at the university of Oxford with a team including the biochemist Ernest Chain. He was assisted by his wife, Ethel nee read, whom he had met when they were studying medicine at the university of Adelaide. In August of 1942, Flora reported on their progress to his mentor, Sir Charles Sherrington. It is most tantalizing, really, as there is for me, no doubt, that we have a most potent weapon against all common sepsis. My wife is doing the clinical work and is getting astonishing results, almost miraculous some of them. Penicillin represented one of the most influential medical advances of its era. Florrie Was appointed the William Dunn Chair of pathology, the university of Oxford from the mid 1930s until the early 1960s and a detail of his school’s buildings was depicted on the banknote together with an image of a culture of penicillin. Florian envisioned a medical research centre of international standing for his native Australia and discussed its research centre of Ooh and discussed its possibility with Doctor H. C. Coombs, a member of the Australian National University Interim Council, later it’s pro chancellor and chancellor and the first governor of the Reserve Bank. So Akhmatov is on the banknotes, the center on some of those banknotes, those early ones. The vision involved and as Coombs explained to Florrie, the proposed medical centre developed to become one of the research schools that could from the nucleus of a university of higher learning equal to any in the world. The John Curtin School of Medical Research at the Australian National University was founded in 1948. Florrie was chancellor of the Anu from 1965 until his death in 1968. Florrie was knighted by King George the sixth in 1944 and the following year he received the Nobel Prize for physiology and medicine with Ernest Chain and Alexander Fleming. He was made up here in 1965 and became a baronet of Adelaide and Marston, the village near Oxford where he settled. So there you go. These banknotes also had a security feature with a metal strip running through the note. You can’t really see it With the naked eye and it also has a watermark as well. So if I put this light on behind the banknote, you will be able to see those two features. This is the metal strip woven through the note as a thread through the note. And here we’ve got Captain Cook, Captain Cook, the watermark in that white window pane of the banknote. So yes, the 50 dollar paper banknotes, great to have as part of your collection. I’ve got a fair few in my collection. And yes, I do like to use this book, the Ranks Australian Coin and Banknote Values book to get a bit of an idea on the values of them. I’ve got a link to that book through the links in my account so you can pick that up. But, um, 50 dollar notes, if you wanted to pick some of these up, I haven’t got any available for sale, but people sell them on sites like eBay. Um, coin dealers would sell them too. Uh, auction houses around the country operate probably on a, a few monthly basis. So if you check those out, some people sell, they sell these on those sites as well. Oh, where else could you get them? Um, uh, people on social media might sell them from time to time too. So there’s lots of different places where you can pick these up and they’re a good addition because it’s a bit of a slice of history. Um, they’re not In circulation anymore.