AUD Cash Counter for Australian Banknotes and Coins

The AUD Cash Counter totals Australian cash by face value. Separate banknotes and coins, enter one whole non-negative quantity for every physical group, and review each subtotal before completing the count. Integer-cent arithmetic keeps the displayed total exact and shares one production path with the denomination table and live calculator.

Current Australian banknotes and coins

The default note rows are $5, $10, $20, $50, and $100. The default coin rows are 5 cents, 10 cents, 20 cents, 50 cents, $1, and $2. These are the ordinary values documented by the Reserve Bank of Australia and Royal Australian Mint. The AUD code remains visible because the $ symbol by itself does not identify which supported dollar currency is being counted.

Banknote series and coin designs do not create extra face-value rows. A genuine older $20 and a current $20 are combined in the same subtotal. TheCashCount does not authenticate either item, assess damage, or estimate a collectible premium; questionable cash needs the appropriate issuer or workplace review.

Old $1 and $2 notes are still money

Australia replaced the paper $1 and $2 denominations with coins, but the RBA says all previous Australian banknote issues remain legal tender and can be redeemed at face value. Enable Legacy Denominations when one of those old notes is actually present and count it under the matching note row.

The separate coin and note rows are deliberate. They let a physical inventory record the cash kind while producing the same face-value arithmetic. A rare old note may be worth more to a collector, but the calculator records only the amount printed on it.

Withdrawn 1c and 2c coins remain narrowly usable

One- and two-cent coins were withdrawn from ordinary circulation beginning in 1992. They were not demonetised: the RBA and Mint say they remain legal tender, subject to a combined payment limit of 20 cents. That unusual status supports optional Legacy rows without presenting the coins as normal change.

If those physical coins are in a drawer or stored cash holding, count each at face value. Their presence does not mean an unlimited pile must be accepted in one payment, and it does not turn pre-decimal or demonetised pieces into AUD rows.

Cash rounding is separate from Cash Count

Official rounding guidance applies to the final cash payment when one- and two-cent pieces are unavailable. Endings of 1 or 2 cents round down, 3 or 4 round up, 6 or 7 round down, and 8 or 9 round up to the nearest five cents. Cheque, card, and EFTPOS totals remain exact. TheCashCount therefore totals the physical pieces entered; it does not round a drawer balance or denomination subtotal to imitate a point-of-sale settlement.

Cash acceptance also depends on more than the words “legal tender.” Current Australian rules include a targeted 2026 mandate for specified supermarket and motor-fuel retailers, with transaction, time, and exception boundaries. This page does not decide whether a particular business or payment falls inside those rules; consult the current RBA and ACCC guidance rather than treating the calculator result as legal advice.

A repeatable Australian Cash Count

Count ordinary notes and coins first, turn on Legacy rows only for old cash that is physically present, and keep disputed items separate. Finish the count before comparing it with Expected Cash, then investigate any Over or Short by recounting the actual drawer instead of editing quantities to fit a target.

The example below uses two $100 Australian notes and three five-cent coins. Its total is generated by the production AUD domain function used by the locked calculator, not by a second handwritten formula in the page content.