Collection of posters on Australian decimal currency and metric conversion, with tables [picture]
- Bib ID:
- 1899843
- Format:
- Picture
- Description:
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- [between 1964 and 1966]
- 5 posters ; 73.7 x 1014 cm. or smaller.
- Summary:
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Posters as part of the government's public education campaign aimed at businesses, schools, children, adults and ethnic groups to aid in the conversion from the imperial system of pounds, shillings and pence.
- Incomplete contents:
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- Our new coins
- Our new coinage
- Australia's decimal currency
- Our new money
- Biography/History:
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The history of the reform to decimal currency can be found on the Reserve Bank of Australia's website at their Museum of Australian Currency Notes at http://www.rba.gov.au/Museum/Displays/1960_1988_rba_and_reform_of_the_currency/introducing_the_new_decimal_notes.html
- Notes:
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- Title devised by cataloguer.
- 3 coloured posters depicting the new coin designs, and values, published by the Government Printer, Canberra; one black and white technical information sheet, with illustrations, from the Commonwealth Treasury, Canberra. 3 coloured posters with tables of metric weights, and measures, from the Metric Conversion Board; one coloured poster "The Modernised Metric System: the international System of Units (SI) ... "from the U.S. Government Printing Office. 2 copies of coloured poster from N.S.W. Government Printer.
- POSTERS FC 91, POSTER 2022-3043 - 3047 copy Digital master available National Library of Australia
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Australia. Metric Conversion Board
- Related Records:
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This collection contains 5 records. - Copyright:
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In Copyright
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Until 2036 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Artistic
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1966
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