Do Australians use paper money or just coins?

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crazywolf_mahal26

I have no idea

~MonS~

Mate are you serious we are only 10 steps ahead of most of the rest of the world we actually have plastic money!!! I dare say what you have is a 10 cent coin... We are more advanced than any other country in the world in areas such as medicine and yet you wonder if we have been introduced to paper money!!!!!!

Born a Fox

As Simta said we have both paper money and coins. All our paper money is coloured and sized differently to represent the various values - $5 is purple, $10 is blue, $20 is Red, $50 is Yellow/Brown and $100, if you are lucky enought to have one, is Green. Our coins are also different sizes and are either gold ($1, $2) or silver (5c, 10c, 20c and 50c). The different sizes help the blind people determine the value.

abuela Nany

No...they barter with sheepskins, kangaroo meat and boomerangs.....

Now seriously...

Of course they have paper money, like most countries all over the world...
The Aussies use the Australian dollar for their currency....
Your coin is probably worth ten cents of an aussie dollar, if it's a small coin or if it is a large coin, it might be ten dollars

Simta

You have a 10 cent coin...

We also have a 5 cent, 50 cent, $1 and $2 coins...

In notes we have $5, $10, $20, $50 and $100

that's it..

smiley

*1 cent and 2 cents stopped in early 1990s ( i think)
5 cent coin (silver color)
10 cent coin (silver color)
20 cent coin (silver color)
50 cent coin (silver color)
1 dollar coin (gold color)
2 dollar coin (gold color)

*notes are plastic
5 dollar note (pink/purple color)
10 dollar note (blue color)
20 dollar note (orange color)
50 dollar note (gold/yellow color)
100 dollar note (green color)

Runt

Cost of living in Australia is cheap, but not that cheap!

Having moved past paper as a too-easily damaged material, Aus now uses a kind of plastic that is more durable. And pretty colourful.

milkbikkies_248

i live in australia - we have both notes and coins -- we have coins in amounts of 5 cents 10 cents 20 cents and 50 cents -- we have 1 dollar and 2 dollar coins -- they are gold while the others are silver -- then we have bills - they come in 5 dollar bills 10 dollar bills 20 dollar bills and 50 dollar bills - they are the most common but we do have 100 dollar bills -- its easy to remember notes and gold coins are worth dollars -- silver coins are cents.

idontlike_idiots

we don't have paper money we use a special type of plastic that lasts longer & is tougher we changed from paper many years ago also use coins

tomcut2000

That 10 is 10 cents... we use 10 dollar bills

brenpren07

they use paper money and coin money if you go to this site they have pictures

Currawong

Hi these sites show you what Australian money looks like.

http://goaustralia.about.com/od/practicalinformation/a/ausmoney.htm
http://homepage.mac.com/vpetrik/AUSTRALIAweb/Bills.html

Some years back the 1 and 2 cents were stopped being made. So when you buy something it is now rounded off. eg. if something costs 87cents, its rounded off to 85cents or if its 88cents its rounded off to 90cents.

marie w

I think they use both like most counties.

We use a special type of plastic $ not a paper $.

einreb

Nah mainly barter or IOU's

eco_paula

They have paper and coins. If you have a coin with a 10 it is 10 cents.
They also have 10, 20, 50 cent coins.
Other coins are $1 and $2.
THe rest are bills - $5, $10, $20, $50, ETC.

roadhazzards

I've seen Australian Paper bills, quite colorful compared to American notes

tendon

They use both.

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