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The Australian fifty dollar note is an Australian banknote with a face value of fifty Australian dollars (A$50). It is currently a polymer banknote, featuring portraits of David Unaipon and Edith Cowan. ==History== No fifty dollar note was released as part of the initial rollout of decimal currency in 1966, but inflation and demand necessitated its introduction seven years later in 1973.〔 The original paper fifty dollar note, designed by Gordon Andrews, has a scientific theme.〔 On the front of the note is a portrait of Australian pathologist Lord Howard Walter Florey and scenes of laboratory research. On the back is a portrait of Sir Ian Clunies Ross, veterinary scientist and first chairman of the CSIRO, along with scenes from the Australian environment. On 4 October 1995 a new set of polymer banknotes were released;〔 these were immediately nicknamed 'pineapples'. Designed by Brian Sadgrove,〔 the new fifty dollar note features a portrait of Indigenous Australian author and inventor David Unaipon on the front, along with drawings from one of his inventions, and an extract from the original manuscript of his ''Legendary Tales of the Australian Aborigines''. There is also a depiction of the Raukkan Church, a historical landmark in Raukkan, where Unaipon grew up.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Raukkan Church Restoration )〕 On the back is a portrait of Edith Cowan, first female member of any Australian parliament, along with a picture of Western Australia's original Parliament House, and an illustration of a foster mother and children.〔 , 575 million $50 notes were in circulation, 45% of the total notes in circulation; worth $28,735 million, or 47% of the total value for all denominations. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Australian fifty-dollar note」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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