This one is for a recent visitor who has taken a great interest in the shots that feature elements of my coin collection. The title is an echo of a shot of a group of coins that I did back on 23 April in the 2010 PAD; that shot's title being Other Times, Other Places. That doesn't apply here since they're from only two places.

On the far left is my full collection of Zimbabwean "I'm technically a trillionaire but I can't afford to buy all the camera gear I'd like" notes. The 10 Trillion which made an appearance in last year's Valentine's day shot, the 20 Trillion, the 50 Trillion and the big boy, the 100 Trillion Dollar note. (Current value: Slightly less than the paper it's printed on.)

We then take a wander down Australia's memory lane. One of the last paper $20 notes which featured Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith on the far side, and on the near side a face that should be familiar in the Illawarra, Lawrence Hargrave, an early aeronautical engineer. Or, as my Tom Tom GPS puts it when I'm driving down the coastal road, "Lawrence Hargrave Drive Slash Tourist Drive 10". This note bears the signature of Bernie Fraser as Governor of the Reserve Bank and Ted Evans as secretary of the Treasury, so it would have been issued some time between 24 May 1993 (Evans' start date) and September 1996 when Bernie retired to do monotonal ads for industry superannuation funds.

Next, we do the time warp again to see an earlier Australian $10 note. It may be noted that this one bears the inscription "Commonwealth Of Australia". That was discontinued after the election of the Whitlam government in 1972, which thought that the expression sounded a little too Colonial in nature and replaced it with the single word "Australia" as seen on the preceding $20 note. The signatures (Sir John Phillips as governor of the Reserve Bank (this was back when Australians could still be knighted) and Sir Richard Randall as Secretary to the Treasury (in fact, it was almost mandatory for government heads of departments to be knighted unless they were associated with the Labor party or really hacked someone off)) place the note between July 1968 (Sir John's appointment) and 31 October 1971 (Sir Richard's retirement).

Finally, we come to a special edition of our $5 note which was issued for the centenary of Federation in 2001. The standard note has the monarch on one side and an image of Parliament House on the other. The centenary one had Sir Henry Parkes (often called the "Father of Federation") on the side facing, and Catherine Helen Spence (the first woman to stand for elected office in Australia) on the other.

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