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1960 Australia Five Pounds – TC 87

$350.00 AUD

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A very nice crisp example of this era. No tears or pinholes.

Paper is clean and there is a very light centre fold.

This note will add good value to any collection and is very pleasing to the eye.

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Obverse: Rear-Admiral Sir John Franklin KCH FRGS RN (16 April 1786 – 11 June 1847) was a British Royal Navy officer and Arctic explorer. Franklin also served as governor of Tasmania for several years. He disappeared on his last expedition, attempting to chart and navigate a section of the Northwest Passage in the Canadian Arctic. The icebound ships were abandoned and the entire crew perished from starvation, hypothermia, tuberculosis, lead poisoning and scurvy.

Reverse: Commerce – artwork by Frank Manley from images taken from a bas relief panel that was originally designed by artist Paul Raphael Montford

Watermark:Captain Cook in left hand oval . The word ’Five’ also sits behind each of the signatories.

History

Franklin was appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen’s Land in 1836, but was removed from office in 1843. He did not endear himself with the local civil servants, who particularly disliked his humane ideals and his attempts to reform the Tasmanian penal colony. His wife, Jane, was quite liberated for a woman of her day, known for “roughing it” to the extent that an expedition had to be mounted after she and Franklin were delayed in their crossing of Tasmanian south-west wilderness. Such exploits further distanced the couple from “proper” society, and may have contributed to Franklin’s recall. Nevertheless, he was popular among the people of Tasmania.

He is remembered by a significant landmark in the centre of Hobart—a statue of him dominates the park known as Franklin Square, which was the site of the original Government House. On the plinth below the statue appears Tennyson’s epitaph:

Not here! The white north hath thy bones and thou
Heroic sailor soul
Art passing on thine happier voyage now
Toward no earthly pole

His wife worked to set up a university, which was eventually established in 1890, a museum, credited to the Royal Society of Tasmanian in 1843 under the leadership of her husband. Lady Franklin may have worked to have the Lieutenant-Governor’s private botanical gardens, established in 1818, managed as a public resource. Lady Franklin also established a glyptotek and surrounding lands to support it near Hobart; it was her intent to civilise the colony. The village of Franklin, on the Huon River, is named in his honour, as is the Franklin River on the West Coast of Tasmania, one of the better known Tasmanian rivers due to the Franklin Dam controversy.

*All biographical details are taken from Wikipedia for education purposes only.

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