A Heart For My Blip Friends

Well here you have it, my heart goes out to you all who have submitted their dollar bills, pound coins and other coinage for the first week of the challenge. I won't tell you how long it took me to make it it's not easy to fold these polymer bills, and now I can't bear to break it..

The twenty dollar bill:
Description:
Designed by Garry Emery, Mary Reibey, who arrived in Sydney in 1792 as a 15 year old convict, features on the front of this note. She subsequently married and after the premature death of her husband inherited numerous businesses and properties, including the schooner "Mercury" which is depicted on the left of the note. To the right is a building in George Street Sydney, the main street, which was at one time owned by Reibey.

(A central Sydney building also owned by Reiby was the initial office of Australia's first bank, the Bank of New South Wales, when founded in 1817. This bank is now one of Australia's major commercial banks having changed its name in the early 1980's to Westpac Banking Corporation. It was responsible for Australia's first formal bank note issue in April 1817 and it and banks which later joined with it through merger or acquisition were significant issuers of currency in Australia for the next 90 years.)

On the back is John Flynn, "Flynn of the Inland" a Presbyterian minister whose tireless work for isolated communities in Australia's far flung areas resulted in the establishment of the Royal Flying Doctor Service. The "Victory," a De Havilland 50 leased from QANTAS flew the first Flying Doctor mission in May 1928, is the plane depicted to the left of the note. Below the plane is a pedal transceiver wireless set used on outback stations for communication including the "School of the Air" which bought education to children in isolated areas. A "Where Does It Hurt" body chart for medical diagnosis by numbers over the pedal wireless is also shown. A Flynn Boundary Rider or Patrol Padre mounted on a camel is shown at the right.

Orientation bands to assist in note sorting are on the front and back.

There are rows of white geometric shapes above and through the aeroplane. From year to year some rows tend to become less distinct.

(Thank you DDW for a fun challenge this week, also for the idea of the origami without both I wouldn't be here) :-))