The BANKING AND CURRENCY MUSEUM at Kadina South Australia was established by

Mick Vort-Ronald 9.12.1988 and closed 19.12.2008, premises and collections sold. If you were
one of the many thousands of people who visited it, this new book will bring back fond memories.
If you didn’t visit during the 20 years it was open, this book will show you what you missed!
Website updated August 2019.

A collector’s dream for over 20 years, collecting and displaying almost every type of
numismatic and bank item from coins, banknotes, tokens, Roman coins, Egyptian antiquities,
bank signs, equipment and machines, badges, uniforms, shipwreck coins, shredded banknotes,
and 20 cabinets of gems, minerals, meteorites and fossils. How the museum evolved and
expanded, where most of the displays came from, what they cost and what they sold for
after the museum closed in 2008. You will be surprised to see how much was displayed.
Multiple Regional Tourism Award winner and unique in Australia - possibly the world!
312 A4-size pages and over 700 black and white images, $60, post $16 ($12 in SA).
 AUSTRALIAN BANKNOTE REFERENCE BOOKS

Michael P. (Mick) Vort-Ronald publications.

Now "retired" and a monthly contributor to Australasian Coin & Banknote magazine, and
Fellow and Treasurer, Numismatic Society of S.A.
Life Member and ex-president 11 times Adelaide Gem and Mineral Club Inc,
President x 8 (current) Mineralogical Society of S.A.
Past president 19 years, Honorary Life Member, Yorke Peninsula Collectables Club,
Member Sydney, Honorary Member, Melbourne, International Banknote Society.
Member, Australasian Mining History Association, and the S.A. Police Historical Society

September 2017, inducted into the International Bank Note Society Hall of Fame in the U.S.A.

1 Banks of Issue in Australia, private banknotes issued by banks 1817 to 1910 and
superscribed banknotes 1910-1914, up to 1983, plus the histories of the banks that issued
them, 331 pages. THE reference used in all auction catalogues in Australia and overseas for
early Australian private bank notes, hard cover $40, post $16. See bottom of next page.

2 Australian Banknotes 2nd. edition Pre-decimal notes, concentrating on

Australian notes from 1913 to 1966, 344 pages. Soft cover $20, hard cover $35, leather-
look un-numbered special cover, $45, post each $16.

3 Australian Decimal Banknotes, paper issues. Decimal notes to include all paper issues
and introduction to polymer notes. Unissued designs illustrated, all serial number and production
details, errors, specimen notes. Described by Greg McDonald (Coin & Banknote Catalogue) as the
best book ever written about Australian banknotes at that time. 416 pages, lots of illustrations, soft
cover $39, hard cover $49, post $16.

Any 2 books will fit into the same 3kg. Australia Post red satchel for $16 postage or any 3 books in
a 5 kg satchel for $18 post. All books printed on quality paper, sewn bound, 100ds of illustrations,
including how, when and why printed and original scenes illustrated and described. Serial
numbering, totals printed, dates of issue and press releases, and more.

THE 3 Australian banknote collectors “Bibles”.

 NEW 2019 limited edition VORT-RONALD PUBLICATIONS

1. Records all private bank notes superscribed by the Australian Government from 1910-14
seen in auctions, and lists notes in museums, Art Gallery of S.A. and the R.B.A. 116pp, $27 post $5

2. Australian Private Banknotes 1817-1910 sales to 2018, 3rd ed. 280 pp, $60, post $16.
3. Australian Specimen Banknotes 4th edition 2018, 166 pp. $45, post $16.
4. Australian Banknote Sales 2018, (Volume 14) 124 pp. $30, post $5.

Banks of Issue in Australia (soft cover) has sold out. Less than 20 hard covers remain, now $40,
plus $16 post. Hardcover Decimal Banknotes, Paper Issues, is also nearly sold out.
 AUSTRALIAN BANKNOTE SALES

Listings of virtually all scarcer banknotes sold in auctions or offered by dealers by serial number,
grade and hammer or asking prices. The first Pedigrees with 508 pages lists all notes seen from
1972-2004. Then annual updates are issued around January of each year.
Australian Banknote Pedigrees (1972-2004) 508 pages $69, hard $89, post $16.
Yearly banknote sales 2005 $23 posted. 2006, 2007 $28 each posted. 2010-2015
$32 each posted, 2017-2018 $35 ea. posted.

Australian Banknote Sales from 2005-2014 consolidating 10 annual updates

into two volumes as Australian Banknote Pedigrees, Second edition.
Volume 1, 5/- to ₤1,000, 410pp $75, Vol 2 Decimal, 188 pp $42,
post $16 each or post $19 if posted together.

Cheques of the World, 1,300 illustrated from 122 countries, 220 pages, $48, post $16.
Cheques of the U.S.A. over 800 illustrated, another 565 listed. 166 pages, $40, post $16.
Both books posted together $19 post for the two.
 Celebrating 43 years of writing for Australian Coin Review and Australasian Coin & Banknote
magazine (CAB) Vort-Ronald in CAB. Articles Feb 2012 to April 2015.
148 pages, $36, post $5. Second edition 2015-2018, 172 pages, $42, post $16.

Australian Colonial Currency and Promissory Notes 3rd ed. 2017, 140 pp. $39, post $5.

CAB INDEX 2nd ed. August 2019.

7,000 index references to 22 years of the Australasian Coin & Banknote magazine 1996-2019.
132 pp. $30, post $5.

Australian Coin Review Index, 1964-2001 by M. P. Vort-Ronald for Numismatic Society of S.A.
136 pp. $30 posted. Send cheque made out to N.S.S.A. or EFT to 015590 498120308 with a name
or postcode and advise me when sent and your postal address details.
 1. Moneyboxes from banks, Building societies and credit unions from Australia and
overseas with histories of the various Australian companies, 350 pages, $30, post $16.
2. Police Gazette Extracts (orders and notices S.A.) 1888-1892, 112 pages $20, post $5.

3. Angaston’s First Cemetery 1847-1869. 2nd ed. Barossa Valley S.A., 223 people buried in
the town’s first cemetery. Copy of all burial records, trustees minutes, indexes, newspapers,
letters, plan. 84 pages, $24 plus $5 post. Published 2013.
4. Barossa Valley Crime & Punishment 1855-1970. 2nd ed. All S.A. police arrest and
felony records for Angaston & Truro police stations transcribed 1878-1901, and history of
police, courts and police stations at Angaston, Truro, Tanunda, Nuriootpa, Greenock and
Lyndoch 1855-1971. 210 pages. $45, postage $16. Nearly sold out.
 Swan Reach Police 1908-2013. Palmer & Mannum Police Stations from 1871
76 pages, $24, post $5. 100 pages, $25, post $5.

SA Police Station Personnel 1876-1923. Whyalla and Iron Knob Police

146 pages, $36, post $5 Stations, 148 pages, $36 post $5.
Lists of all police officers in all
country towns in S.A. 1876-1923.
Arrivals, departures, destinations.
SOUTH AUSTRALIAN BANK BRANCH HISTORIES

SEE NEXT PAGE

History and pictures of all branches of all banks in SA, past and present up to 2008 with names of
first managers, and when opened and closed. Covers shown, previous page.

(2) ES&A Bank & cheques,

(3) Union & Australasia & ANZ,
(4) Bank NSW & CBA,
(6) Commonwealth Bank,
(8) Miscellaneous banks & towns index 124 pages;
all $25 each, plus $5 post ea.
(7) Savings & State Bank (184 pages) $35 post $16.
(1) Bank of Adelaide Branches 4th edition 2018, $35 posted.
(5) National and CBC 2018 reprint $35 posted.

New book, With Faith and Courage, Bank of Adelaide centenary 1865-1965 by Ron Potter edited
by Mick Vort-Ronald and Stan Batten 2018, 124 pp. $35 posted.

..oo0oo..

HAY INTERNMENT CAMP NOTES & WAR SAVINGS CERTIFICATES

3rd edition released February 2019, 140pp. $36, post $5.

Full details of over 350 Hay notes recorded with prices realised.
High value WW1 War Savings Certificates illustrated for the first time.
Canteen Orders, German New Guinea, Japanese Invasion notes, Savings stamps, Short snorters,
Treasury bonds, Wartime propaganda and more.

AUSTRALIAN BANKNOTE ERRORS

Virtually every banknote error in auctions from 1975 to 2017, profusely illustrated,
200 pages, soft cover, $45, $16 post.
AUSTRALIAN SHINPLASTER S.A. PROMISSORY NOTES
& CALABASH NOTES 1906-1974 “time to pay cheques”
First edition 104 pages, $22 posted. 88 pages, $24, post $5.
Second edition 132 pages, $32 posted. Published 2015.

Left, Lyndelle’s Poems – a lifetime of poems and reminiscences from my wife,

136 pp, $25, post $5.

Right, Michael P. Vort-Ronald Bibliography. 100 pages, $25, post $5.

 CORNISH FESTIVAL MEDALLIONS BANKING & CURRENCY MUSEUM
Left. Medallions for Flinders & Baudin 2002 designed by Mick Vort-Ronald, and medallions
produced every 2 years from 1975 to 2009 by Northern Yorke Peninsula Coin Club / Yorke
Peninsula Collectables Club (the last 10 designed by him) 120 pages. Right. History of the
museum from 1988-2008 before sold, 112 pages, first edition 2008 – see page 1). Each $30 posted.

VORT-RONALD COLLECTIONS. MISCELLANEOUS & POLITICAL NOTES

Left. 1988 & 2009 collections with extra pictures not in 1988 catalogue, collection later peaking
with a theory value of $9 million. Right. Australian Miscellaneous and Political Propaganda
Notes 2nd. edition, issued November 2014. Each book 150pp. Each book $42 posted.
Left. Mineral collecting articles in the Adelaide Gem & Mineral Club's magazine "Fossicker" by
MVR 1963-2009, 316 pages, $40, post $16. Right. Chinese Embers, adventures of the South
Australian wife of a French banker in China in the 1920s with illustrations and cartoons, edited and
published by me as the grandson of Eva Dower’s sister. 88 A5 pages $8, $3 post. This book
particularly appeals to women.

MODERN NUMISMATIC BANKNOTES from NOTE PRINTING AUSTRALIA published

2014. Banknotes put into chronological and thematic order to explain all of the special collector
issues, 116 pages, $30, post $5.

Gammon Ranges 1959, scout hikes by author aged 15 yrs, 100 pp. $25, post $5.
 Interleaves for Vario banknote albums fully illustrated
and printed on quality 200 gsm. polished art paper for
inserting between existing clear Vario banknote pages.
Pre-decimal 10/- to £1,000, $64, post $16. Paper
decimal notes $54 & $16p. COMPLETE VARIO
ALBUMS with clear pages, interleaves, slipcases
assembled for Pre-decimal $227, paper decimal, $209
plus post for 4 and 3 kg respectively, postgage cost
depends on destination. Size 275 x 325 x 90mm.

Printed interleaves have information about the note on the left side page
and a picture of the applicable note on the other side e.g. as below

Interleaves for Vario banknote albums fully illustrated and printed on quality 200 gsm. polished art
paper for inserting between existing clear banknote pages. These will illustrate and explain what
you have and show you what you are missing. 1. Specialist (for notes from Note Printing Australia
folders & portfolios) $40 & $15. Polymer notes; First and last prefixes for each design; 4. Uncut
vertical pairs; & Superscribed; all $20 & $5 post each. N.P.A. Annually dated notes red and black
serials ex folders $25 & $5 post.
 FAMILY HISTORIES

350 pages $40 reduced to $20 158 pp $35 164 pp $35

132 pp $30 158 pp $35 124 pp $30

HOSKINS OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA Andrew Hoskins arrived in S.A. in 1840 from Yarlington
Somerset, England on the Rajasthan and settled at Nailsworth. His 10 surviving children, includes
Gilbert, Dobinson and Lewis families. 350 pages, 950 pictures, reduced to $20, plus $16 post.

2015 2nd editions in 5 separate volumes for children born 1850s as pictured above, post each $5
for Caleb (Quorn), James (Wilmington), Frederick (Wirrabara), Mary Ann Dobinson (Alberton),
George and Bertha (Broken Hill). Unable to locate descendants and complete separate volumes for
Octavia Gilbert and Susanna Lewis.

Headstone to the Hoskins family erected in the Smith Street cemetery, Walkerville. Enter via gate
in Smith Street 5 metres, black headstone is to your left amongst rose bushes.
FAMILY HISTORY, Joseph Phillips arrived 1865 from Skinners bottom St. Agnes, Cornwall, 2nd.
ed. 150 pages, $26 plus $5 post. Another book MAYNARD OF NOARLUNGA – sold out.

Joseph Phillips at Dudley Park and the Prospect churches, 36pp, 2018, $5, post $2

PAYMENT to M.P. Vort-Ronald at P.O. Box 653 Willaston S.A. 5118 by cheque, money order or
cash or by EFT via (ANZ) 015590 580785528, (a/c M.P. Vort-Ronald). Postage costs subject to any
future AP changes. Enquiries ph. (08) 8522 4490, mobile 0417 212 906
email vortronald@yp-connect.net Web page www.yp-connect.net/~vortronald

Contact me with your postcode for a quote on reduced postage costs for multiple books.
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 as a cadet 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. He is still a member of the Police Historical Society and the Retired Police Officers Association.
At the age of 18 years he joined the Adelaide Gem and Mineral Club and was made Life Member in 2012 for
50 years continuous membership. He was president of the club 11 times and editor of its magazine “The
Fossicker”. He was president of Yorke Peninsula Gem and Mineral Club four times, and the Mineralogical
Society of South Australia seven times, and is currently its president and newsletter editor. Most of his
original gem and mineral collection was sold to help finance his first banknote reference 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, studies and photographs minerals and is a member of the Australasian
Mining History Assoc.
As a specialist on Australian banknotes he wrote monthly 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 in Sydney. 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. He has written and self-published over 110 reference books, mostly about all aspects of Australian
banknotes, but also including extended family histories (9), bank branch histories (8), police station histories
(5), cheques (3), moneyboxes, passbooks, minerals, medals, Angaston Cemetery (2), Gammon Ranges
(scouting) and numerous illustrated banknote albums, and published a small book about China in the 1920s,
Chinese Embers, written by his aunt Eva Dower, the wife of a French banker.

For his work on Australian banknotes 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. He designed two medals 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 28¾ 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" in December 2008 aged
65 years, "sold up" and moved to Willaston (Gawler S.A.) in 2009 to continue with his writing and
publications, averaging about five new books each year. There were 10 books written in 2018.
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”,
and the 1991 and 1992 Telecom Finance calendars, and a set of exclusive phone cards. In 2007 & 2008 he
appeared in “Who’s Who in South Australia” and in 2017 was elected to the Hall of Fame of the
International Bank Note Society in the United States of America.