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20 Dollars - Teller Training Note
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of Australia |
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| Currency | Dollar (1966-date) |
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| Obverse description | Obverse printed on salmon-orange paper with a fine guilloche underprint of horizontal wave patterns across the entire field. The large bold numeral '20' with a diagonal cancellation stroke through the zero occupies the centre, with smaller denomination numerals '20' in the upper corners. A white unprinted block appears at the upper left, and a partial mirror image of the reverse design is visible in ghost form at lower left. The legend 'FOR TRAINING PURPOSES ONLY' is printed in black letterpress along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse printed on the same salmon-orange stock with a vertical line guilloche underprint across the field. The large cancelled numeral '20' is centred, matching the obverse motif, with denomination numerals '20' appearing in the upper left and lower right corners. A white unprinted margin strip runs along the right edge, and a ghost impression of the obverse design is visible along the right border. The inscription 'FOR TRAINING PURPOSES ONLY' appears in black letterpress along the lower margin. |
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Teller training notes were produced by the Reserve Bank of Australia to allow bank staff to practice cash-handling procedures without using — or risking — genuine currency. They replicate the physical feel and approximate dimensions of the real series but are overprinted or marked to prevent any possibility of passing them as legal tender. The RBA has issued training material across multiple decimal series, and these notes occasionally surface in collector hands after being disposed of through institutional channels rather than formal destruction programs.
Acquiring one intact is partly a matter of timing — many were deliberately defaced or shredded after training cycles ended.