2021 $1 100 Years Ginger Meggs PNC

Over the past 100 years the mischievous red -headed kid named Ginger Meggs has carved a firm place for himself in Australian popular culture. He entered Australia's comic scene as Ginger Smith in November 1921, but within months was renamed Ginger Meggs. James Charles “Jimmy Bancks” penned Ginger Meggs for “Us Fellers”, a comic strip in the Sunday edition of Sydney's Sun and Melbourne's Sun News-Pictorial. From 1924, Ginger was also the star of the annual Sunbeams Book: More Adventures of Ginger Meggs. “Us Fellers” was renamed “Ginger Meggs” in 1939.