Australian Banknotes 10 Australian Dollars banknote 1979 Francis Greenway & Henry Lawson

10 Australian dollars banknote

Australia 10 Dollars bill

Australia Banknotes 10 Australian dollars banknote of 1979, issued by the Reserve Bank of Australia.
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Obverse: Portrait of Francis Greenway along with public building he helped construct.
Reverse: Portrait of Henry Lawson with his poetry and scenes of the outback gold mining town of Gulgong in the 19th century including the Times Bakery.

Watermark: Portrait of Captain James Cook in the white field.

The Australian ten dollar banknote was issued when the currency was changed from the Australian pound to the Australian dollar on 14 February 1966; it replaced the £5 note which had the same blue colouration.

Francis Howard Greenway (20 November 1777 – September 1837) was an English-born architect who was transported to Australia for the crime of forgery. In New South Wales he worked for the Governor, Lachlan Macquarie, as Australia's first government architect. He became widely known and admired for his work displayed in buildings such as St Matthew's Church in Windsor, New South Wales, St James' Church, Sydney and Hyde Park Barracks, Sydney.

Henry Lawson (17 June 1867 – 2 September 1922) was an Australian writer and poet. Along with his contemporary Banjo Paterson, Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets and fiction writers of the colonial period and is often called Australia's "greatest short story writer". He was the son of the poet, publisher and feminist Louisa Lawson.