Timeline for Are paper banknotes used in Australia?
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| May 5, 2022 at 14:30 | comment | added | Lll | I'm not surprised. I'm in my thirties and have never seen a paper Australian banknote. I would have no idea if it was real. | |
| May 5, 2022 at 0:30 | comment | added | david | I just got knocked back at McDonalds. The cashier actually said "that's not a five dollar note". And it was during school hours, so it wasn't some high school student. I didn't argue -- I had a polymer note I could use instead -- but I was nonplussed. | |
| Mar 26, 2022 at 21:30 | comment | added | Peter M | @Tetsujin Australia converted to decimal currency 56 years ago. So it is quite likely that someone who received a stash of cash handed down 3 generations might not know how many shillings to a pound. | |
| Mar 26, 2022 at 15:54 | comment | added | Dragonel | @Tetsujin I think it is there because the conversion is not just "multiply by 2", but has the additional step of "convert shillings to pounds" (eg £0.5) before "multiply by two". Without knowing if readers are familiar with shillings, stating the conversion here is the simplest approach. | |
| Mar 26, 2022 at 14:07 | comment | added | Tetsujin | That last sentence is odd… was someone unaware that 20 shillings make a pound & therefore there is no discrepancy. | |
| Mar 25, 2022 at 21:46 | history | answered | Peter M | CC BY-SA 4.0 |