YOUR FIRST DOLLAR -earned on the morning of “Dollar Day in Australia”-February 14, 1966 Prize

Your First Dollar Note 14 February 1966 Consolation Prize

Your First Dollar Note 14 February 1966 Consolation Prize

Framed souvenir card from the changeover to decimal currency in February 1966. Contains a new paper one dollar note general prefix Coombs/Wilson serial AAE 273212.

“Your first dollar –earned on the morning of “Dollar Day in Australia”- February 14, 1966”

was the consolation prize in a competition run by PIX magazine and the Bank of New South Wales. There were 1,000 of these cards issued but most were likely thrown out when the dollar note removed and spent when it was won. How many of these cards remain today?”

Competition entrants read a photo story about a girl, Gaye Traveller, as she sailed a P & O-Orient cruise. Her entertaining story spanned four Pix magazine issues giving clues to a crossword puzzle readers filled in and sent in to the magazine for the chance to win a P & O-Orient South Pacific cruise (South Seas or Maorilander) for two on the luxury liner Arcadia, $500 cash from PIX, $250 in travellers cheques from the Bank of New South Wales and a Super 8 movie camera and projector from Bell & Howell.

If you didn’t win the grand prize then 1,000 entrants received the carded dollar note seen here. For more information see this article about 1966 Pix magazine competition.

Reference
Vort-Ronald, Michael P.(2000) Australian Decimal Banknotes Second Edition, p71
First Dollars. (1966, January 15). PIX, 80 (9), p15

Coin Information

Reference Number:K00154
Country:Australia
Denomination:$1
Year:1966
Grade:Uncirculated

Your First Dollar Note 14 February 1966 Consolation Prize

Your First Dollar Note 14 February 1966 Consolation Prize

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