AUSTRALIAN PAPER CURRENCY PUBLICATIONS by Michael P. Vort-Ronald . Period Title Year Pages Hard $ Soft $ Post $ 1803-1826 Aust. Colonial Promissory Notes 2nd 2012 136 36 5 1817-1914 Banks of Issue in Australia (Pvt. notes) 1982 331 30 20 15 (SA 12) 1817-1910 Aust. Private Banknote Pedigrees 2011 268 49 15 (SA 12) 1850-1950 Aust. Shinplasters, Calabashes 2nd ed. 2007 132 25 5 1850-2013 Australian Misc. & Political notes 2nd. 2013 144 36 5 1910-1914 Australian Superscribed Notes 2008 104 22 5 1913-1966 Australian Banknotes (£) 2nd ed. 1983 344 35 20 15 (SA 12) 1913-2012 Australian Specimen Banknotes 2nd ed. 2013 160 39 15 (SA 12) 1966-1997 Australian Decimal Banknotes 2nd ed 1995 416 49 39 15 (SA 12) 1975-2004 Aust. Banknote Pedigrees (sales 72-04) 2005 508 89 69 15 (SA 12) 1975-2014 2nd edition ₤ series $75, Decimal series 2016 188 42 15 (SA 12) 2006 and 7 Australian Banknote Sales 2005, 6 and 2007 ea 22 ea 5 2008-2013 Australian Banknote Sales 2010 to 2015 ea 27 ea 5 1988-2001 Aust. Modern Numismatic Banknotes 2014 116 30 5 1988-2011 Vort-Ronald Aust. Note Collections 2011 150 36 5 1975-2012 Australian Banknote Errors 2013 200 44 15 (SA 12) 2012-2014 Vort-Ronald in CAB magazine 2015 148 36 5 BANKNOTE ALBUM INTERLEAVES (for existing Lighthouse Vario albums) 1910-2009 Superscribed, uncut pairs, prefixes, polymer 4 th ed. ea 20 5 1913-1966 Australian Banknote Album (£) 2005 64 15 (SA 12) 1966-1996 Decimal Banknote Album (paper) 2007 54 15 (SA 12) 1988-2005 Specialist Album, red and black 2006 40 15 (SA 12) 1994-2000 Annually Dated, red and black 2006 25 5 Vario banknote clear pages ($1.50) each. New deep D ring cover with slipcase $72. Plus post. Complete albums £ series 10/- to £1000, or paper/polymer decimal $1 - $100, $245 each posted. OTHER SUBJECTS (Multiple books sent at the same time can mean less postage costs.) Moneyboxes from banks, b/s, and credit unions 2006 300 reduced to 30 15 (SA 12) Hoskins of South Australia, (Somerset, family history) 1995 350 reduced to 20 15 (SA 12) As above, James, Caleb, Mary each $30, Fred, George 2015 154 ea 35 ea 5 Maynard of Noarlunga (family history) 2016 104 27 5 Chinese Embers (a banker's life in China 1920s) 1995 88 8 3 S.A. bank branches, Bank of Adelaide (1865-1980) 2008 116 25 5 S.A. bank branches, ES&A & cheques (1853-1970) 2008 104 22 5 S.A. bank branches, Union, Aust., ANZ, or C/W each 2008 108 25 5 S.A. bank branches, Bank NSW and CBA 2008 120 25 5 S.A. Bank branches, Savings & old/new State Bank 2008 184 35 15 (SA 12) S.A. Bank branches, Miscellaneous banks & town index 2008 124 25 5 Banking and Currency Museum, Kadina. 2008 112 25 5 Cornish Festival and Encounter 2002 Medallions 2009 120 25 5 Joseph Phillips, Skinner's Bottom, Cornwall 2 nd ed. 2014 150 26 5 Mick Vort-Ronald in The Fossicker (minerals) 2009 316 40 15 (SA 12) Angaston's First Cemetery 1847-1868 2 nd ed. 2013 84 24 5 Police Gazette Extracts 1888-1892 2012 112 20 5 Swan Reach Police 1908-2013 2013 78 24 5 Palmer & Mannum Police Stations 1871-2013 2013 100 25 5 S.A. Police Station Personnel 1876-1923 2013 146 36 5 S.A. Promissory Notes 1906-1974 2015 88 24 5 Vort-Ronald Bibliography 2013 100 25 5 Barossa Valley Crime & Punishment 1855-1970 2nd ed. 2014 210 45 15 (SA 12) Gammon Ranges (near Arkaroola - scouting) 1959 2014 100 25 5 Cheques of the U.S.A. 166p $40+Post. World cheques 2014 220 48 15 (SA 12) Hay Internment Camp notes, War Savings Certificates 2014 110 30 5 Payment by cheque, money order or EFT to M.P.Vort-Ronald, P.O. Box 653 Willaston S.A. 5118. Ph. (08) 8522 4490, mobile 0417 212 906, email [email protected] Updated January 2016 Web page www.yp-connect.net/~vortronald EFT to 015 590 5807 85528 with postcode or surname. $5 postage by priority mail is $6. AUTHOR: Michael P. (Mick) Vort-Ronald was born in Adelaide in 1943. As a teenager he collected minerals, stamps and coins, and was a Queen’s Scout. At the age of 16 years and two weeks he joined the South Australian Police Force and graduated in 1963. He was stationed at Adelaide, Whyalla, Angaston, Nuriootpa, Swan Reach, Port Pirie, Whyalla and Mannum - the last two towns as a sergeant for nine years.

At the age of 18 years he joined the Adelaide Gem and Mineral Club and was given Life Membership in 2012 for 50 years continuous membership. He was president of the club on ten occasions and is editor of its magazine “The Fossicker”. He was president of Yorke Peninsula Gem and Mineral Club four times and was elected president of the Mineralogical Society of South Australia in August 2011. Most of his original gem and mineral collection was sold to help finance his first book in 1979, but a new larger collection of gems, minerals, fossils and meteorites was displayed in his museum until it closed on 19.12.2008. He still collects minerals and is a member of the Australasian Mining History Assoc. and the SA Police Historical Society.

As a specialist on Australian banknotes he wrote for the Australian Coin Review from 1975 and became its final editor from 1999 to 2001. He now writes monthly for the Australasian Coin & Banknote Magazine. His Australian Coin Review Index was published by the Numismatic Society of S.A. in 2002. From 1976 he has part-authored the banknote sections of Renniks Australian Coin and Banknote Guides and from 2000, the Australian notes in the Krause World Paper Money catalogues in the U.S.A. He has written and self- published many reference books on Australian banknotes; Australian Banknotes (2 editions), Banks of Issue in Australia , Australian Decimal Banknotes (2 editions) and numerous illustrated banknote albums. He also wrote and published a large family history book Hoskins of South Australia in 1995 and published a small book on China in the 1920s, Chinese Embers, by Eva Dower . For his work on Australian notes he was elected a Fellow of the Numismatic Society of South Australia in 1985, later serving five terms as its president, and is currently its treasurer and newsletter editor. As president of the Northern Yorke Peninsula Coin Club (later the Yorke Peninsula Collectables Club) from 1990 to 2009, he designed the last ten of its Cornish Festival medallions and was awarded Honorary Life Membership in 2009. Two medals were designed for Encounter 2002 (Flinders and Baudin), and an Adelaide Treasury medallion. In 1993 he received the Tasmanian Numismatic Society A.J. Lockwood Award for his contribution to numismatics and in August 2009 received the Numismatic Association of Australia's Paul Simon Memorial Award and medal for his outstanding contribution to organised numismatics.

In 1988 he auctioned his Australian banknote collection, resigned from the South Australian Police Force after 28 years service and purchased a two-storey ex-bank building in Kadina where he operated Australia’s only private Banking and Currency Museum from 1988 – 2008, winning 10 regional tourism awards including Tourism Excellence, and Best Attraction five times. He "retired" on 19.12.2008 aged 65 years, "sold up" and moved to Willaston (Gawler) in 2009 to continue with his writing and publications.

Other activities included treasurer of the Kadina National Trust and Farm Shed Museum for 13 years (receiving a State Honour Award in 2008) and secretary-treasurer of the Yorke Peninsula Tourism Association. He is a member of the International Banknote Society (Sydney) and Honorary Member of its Melbourne Chapter. His banknote photography was used in Peter Steele's “Collect Australian Banknotes”, for 1991 and 1992 Telecom Finance calendars, and a set of exclusive phone cards. In 2005 , “Australian Banknote Pedigrees”, and annual updates from 2006-2015. , “Money Boxes from Banks, Building Societies, Credit Unions” and five editions of banknote album interleaves. In 2007 (& 2008) he appeared in “Who’s Who in South Australia” and published, “Shinplasters" (2), “Promissory Notes”, “Miscellaneous Notes (2)”, Jim Johnson Mineralogy Letters, and Joseph Phillips, Skinner's Bottom, Cornwall. In 2008, CAB Index, Eight volumes on South Australian Bank Branches, Superscribed Banknotes; S.A. Promissory Notes, Polymer Banknote Album (3rd. ed.), Banking and Currency Museum. 2009, Cornish Festival & Encounter 2002 medallions, Mick Vort-Ronald in The Fossicker (Adelaide Gem & Mineral Club), Australian Superscribed Banknote Album, Polymer Banknote Album (4th. ed.), Uncut Vertical Banknote Pairs Album, Australian Cheques, and Pass Books. 2011 , Vort-Ronald Banknote Collections, Australian Private Banknote Pedigrees. 2012 ,, Australian Banknote Errors, Australian Colonial Currency & Promissory Notes (2nd. ed.), Police Gazette Extracts 1888-1892, Angaston's First Cemetery 1847-1869, and Barossa Valley Crime & Punishment. 2013 , Australian Specimen Banknotes, Australian Miscellaneous & Political Propaganda notes, Swan Reach Police, Mannum Police, Police Station Personnel. 2014 , Australian Modern Numismatic (NPA) Banknotes; Gammon Ranges 1959 (scouting); Cheques of the USA; Cheques of the World; Hay Internment Camp Notes & War Savings Certificates; Joseph Phillips 2 nd ed., Miscellaneous and Political notes 2 nd ed. 2015 , Vort-Ronald in CAB, seven volumes of Hoskins of S.A., S.A. Promissory notes Vol. 2, Australian Banknote Pedigrees 2nd. ed. (2 volumes). Maynard of Noarlunga.