Australia's new $10 banknote has been unveiled

The new Australian $10 banknote retains it blue tones and the faces of literary talents and takes on new splashes of yellow and tactile features.

Following in the footsteps of the $5 note, which hit wallets last September, the currency will have a top-to-bottom clear window and a rolling patch of colour to secure it from counterfeiting.

There's also images of yellow bramble wattle and a sulphur-crested cockatoo.

Microprint excerpts of of the writings of AB 'Banjo' Paterson and Dame Mary Gilmore will remain.

The new $10 banknote will be issued from September, the Reserve Bank of Australia said on Friday.

There's believed to be about 120 million existing $10 notes already in circulation.

Here's a side-by-side comparison of the new and old $10 note.

FEATURES OF THE NEW $10 BANKNOTE

- The faces of famous Australian writers Dame Mary Gilmore and AB "Banjo" Paterson remain on each side

- Images of a pen nib in two of the clear windows and excerpts of their poetry in microprint

- Innovative new security features to stop counterfeiting, including a top-to-bottom clear window and patch with a rolling colour effect

- Tactile feature of two raised dots to help the vision-impaired distinguish banknote denominations (the $5 note has one dot)

- A species of native Australian wattle, the bramble wattle (Acacia victoriae)

- A native bird species, the sulphur-crested cockatoo (Cacatua galerita)

- It will be issued into circulation in September.