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posted by martyb on Friday May 10 2019, @04:56PM   Printer-friendly
from the With-great-powr-comes-great-responsibilty dept.

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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.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/may/09/australian-50-note-typo-spelling-mistake-printed-46-million-times

Also at Australian Broadcasting Corporation, the BBC and The New York Times.


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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by DannyB on Friday May 10 2019, @05:57PM (1 child)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Friday May 10 2019, @05:57PM (#841953) Journal

    Could the misspelling be an anti counterfeiting measure?

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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by danmars on Friday May 10 2019, @06:41PM

    by danmars (3662) on Friday May 10 2019, @06:41PM (#841983)

    Yes. In fact, that would be my default assumption. But the article includes a quote from a spokesperson:

    On Thursday, an RBA spokeswoman said the bank was “aware of it and the spelling will be corrected at the next print run”.

    Of course, even that statement doesn't state it was an accident.