Whitman Expo
(20)01 Sig 13: Macfarlane/Evans Intro: 02 01 2001 5 dollars Values
Details
Obverse: English text; Tenterfield School of Arts building; microprinting of Parkes’ Tenterfield Address; badges of New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, and Western Australia; politician and “Father of Federation,” Henry Parkes from 1892 painting by Tom Roberts; architectural drawings of Royal Exhibition Building in Melbourne, site of the first Commonwealth Parliament; Federation Pavilion in Sydney’s Centennial Park; The Duke of Cornwall and York (later to be King George V) opening Australia’s First Federal Parliament in 1901 from painting by Tom Roberts
Reverse: English text; stars of Southern Cross; South Australian Children’s Department building in Adelaide; Catherine Helen Spence, journalist and social reformer; microprinting of Parkes’ Advance Australia Fair; Andrew Inglis Clark (Tasmania), Edmund Barton (New South Wales), John Forrest (Western Australia), Alfred Deakin (Victoria), Charles Kingston (South Australia) and Samuel Griffith (Queensland); spray of wattle; sunrise
Basic Information
GSID:
107557
Denomination:
5 dollars
Varieties and Classification
Variety:
(20)01 Sig 13: Macfarlane/Evans Intro: 02 01 2001
