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Red faces after discovery $2.3bn worth of currency has a misprint of the word responsibility in banknote's 'micro-text'
46 million of Australia's new $50 notes have been printed with a typo, the Reserve Bank has confirmed.
The "new and improved" $50 banknote was rolled out in October last year, with a host of new technologies designed to improve accessibility and prevent counterfeiting.
But the yellow note also contains a typo that misspells the word "responsibility".
The note features the Indigenous writer and inventor David Unaipon on one side, and Edith Cowan, Australia's first female member of parliament, on the other – as it has since 1995.
The RBA has printed "micro-text" on the note with excerpts of Unaipon's book, Legendary Tales of the Australian Aborigines, and Cowan's first speech to parliament.
The small error occurred on Cowan's side, in the text of her speech.
"It is a great responsibilty [sic] to be the only woman here, and I want to emphasise the necessity which exists for other women being here," it says.
Also at Australian Broadcasting Corporation, the BBC and The New York Times.
(Score: 4, Funny) by NPC-131072 on Friday May 10 2019, @05:08PM (2 children)
What's the punishment, will it be an eye for an 'i'?
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Friday May 10 2019, @10:02PM
Someone who was told repeatedly that there is "no I in team" was becoming offended that that word already had two and was calling for a third one.
It was all to protect the readers from offense.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 11 2019, @12:20PM
given the amount of people recently imported to live for the whole eye for an eye thing? possible