Before Harold Holt saw cents, there was a right royal runaround en route to dollar we call our own

By Richard Hughes
Updated February 23 2016 - 10:13am, first published February 11 2016 - 9:19am
This 'artist's essay' shows how the one royal note might have looked. Photo: Robert Pearce
This 'artist's essay' shows how the one royal note might have looked. Photo: Robert Pearce

This week marks a momentous Australian anniversary. Fifty years ago this weekend — on February 14, 1966 - we switched our currency from the venerable colonial pound to the shiny, freshly minted Australian dollar.

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