Antarctican dollar
| Antarctican dollar | |
|---|---|
| Denominations | |
| Symbol | A$ |
| Banknotes | 1, 2, 3, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100 A$ |
| Demographics | |
| User(s) | None |
| Issuance | |
| Monetary authority | Antarctica Overseas Exchange Office (not official) |
| Website | bankofantarctica.com |
| Printer | British American Banknote Company to 2001, others afterwards |
Antarctican dollars are collectors' items produced by the "Antarctica Overseas Exchange Office" in the appearance of a national money for the continent of Antarctica. The bills are not legal tender in Antarctica nor any other continent or nation, and are marketed as part of a range of "fantasy collector items in the appearance of fictional national money".[1] They are mostly sold for the equivalent of their face value in United States dollars.
The Antarctica Overseas Exchange Office states it uses a portion of all proceeds from the sale of Antarctican dollars to fund organizations seeking to undertake research and humanitarian projects in the Antarctic region.[2][3] The unofficial currency code "AQD" is based on "AQ", the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for Antarctica.
Banknote series[edit]
1996 series[edit]
| 1996 Series | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Value | Dimensions | Obverse | Reverse | Printed Date | Issued Date | Expiry Date |
| A1 | 177.8 x 88.9 mm (7 x 3.5 in.) | Penguins on Petermann Island | Diving Adelie penguins on Paulet Island | March 1, 1996 | March 2, 1996 | December 31, 2001 |
| A5 | Crabeater seal on floe | Albatross, killer whales | ||||
| A10 | Robert Falcon Scott | Map of Antarctica | ||||
| A20 | Roald Amundsen, flag of Norway in the background | Amundsen reached South Pole on December 14, 1911 | ||||
| A50 | McMurdo Station | Antarctic Treaty System | ||||
| A100 | Ozone hole detection | Ozone measured in Dobson unit, weather satellite | ||||
1999/2001 series[edit]
| 1999/2001 Series | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Image | Value | Dimensions | Obverse | Reverse | Printed Date | Issued Date | Expiry Date | Note | |
| [1] | [2] | A1 | 160 x 80 mm | Penguins on Petermann Island | Diving Adelie penguins on Paulet Island | April 22, 1999 (Earth Day) | December 31, 2008 | Like 1996 series A1 | |
| [3] | [4] | A2 | Penguins on rocks | Anniversary of tragic Air New Zealand crash with no survivors, flag of Antarctica as adopted by AOEO | November 28, 1999 | ||||
| [5] | [6] | A5 | Roald Amundsen, flag of Norway in the background | Albatross | January 1, 2001 | January 2, 2001 | 2010 | Obverse like 1996 series A20 | |
| A10 | Robert Falcon Scott | Map of Antarctica | Like 1996 series A10 | ||||||
| [7] | [8] | A20 | Crabeater seal on floe | Great auk | Obverse like 1996 series A5 | ||||
| [9] | [10] | A50 | McMurdo Station | Antarctic Treaty System | Like 1996 series A50 | ||||
| [11] | [12] | A100 | Ozone hole detection | Ozone measured in Dobson unit, weather satellite | Like 1996 series A100 | ||||
| These images are to scale at 0.7 pixels per millimeter, a standard for world banknotes. | |||||||||
2007 series[edit]
Two types of the 1 dollar; The general issue of March 1, 2007 and the commemorative issue of November 23, 2007 noting the sinking of the Antarctic vessel MV Explorer.
Two dollars; July 30, 2007
Three dollars; General issue of March 1, 2007 and the commemorative issue of December 14, 2007 noting the International Polar Year 2007-2008.
2008 series[edit]
1, 2, 3, 5, and 20 dollar notes have been issued in polymer.
50 and 100 dollars were designed for the 2010 release.
2009 series[edit]
10 dollars first issued March 29, 2009 and expires in 2016.
References[edit]
- ↑ Official website
- ↑ Symes, Peter (2002). "Private Issues – The Antarctica Issues and the NORFED Issues". Archived from the original on 2013-04-11. Retrieved 2013-04-27.
- ↑ Gyllenbok, Jan (25 April 2018). Encyclopaedia of Historical Metrology, Weights, and Measures, Volume 2. Birkhäuser. p. 706. ISBN 978-3-319-66691-4. Search this book on
External links[edit]
- Antarctica Overseas Exchange Office website
- Your Guide to Antarctica Collector Sets of Banknotes, Washington Square Coin Exchange
- Antarctica banknotes on catalog
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