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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: 5, Interesting) by danmars on Friday May 10 2019, @06:04PM (4 children)
I work in ID authentication, and deliberate "mistakes" are not uncommon.
Sometimes mistakes are huge and can't be ignored, like misspelling "Commercial" in the type name that's in big letters, but in microtext? Say it was on purpose.
Special bonus points if the RBA did do it on purpose, and they're only changing it because the counterfeiters and/or reporters noted the deliberate mistake and it's not useful anymore.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 10 2019, @08:02PM
I was thinking something similar, but it doesn't actually work. There are two options:
1) People don't know about the spelling mistake. Therefore people won't be able to use the misspelled word as counterfeit detection, or worse, think genuine bills are counterfeit.
2) People do know about the spelling mistake, so counterfeiters will incorporate that into their prints.
Intentional mistakes are useful when you have limited people who need to authenticate a document, but not for general public consumption items.
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday May 11 2019, @01:49AM (2 children)
Some typical Australian male was told by his newly-formed diversity committee that the mint he works for is going to move in a more "PC" direction. So he did what any other patriotic White male of his country would do, and subtly stalled by throwing his own monkey wrench into the gears of political correctness.
We in America had a similar situation, averted, when Obama made his push to have Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill. Looking back, I realize that this would have been a good thing, as $20 is the magic number for low-level addicts looking to purchase street drugs. Grams of weed, a couple rocks of crack or 2 Oxycontins, the $20 dollar denomination is the perfect equilibrium between suck-your-dick-for-a-cheeseburger desperate and casual-but-not-addict dope-dealings. Martin Luther King would have probably been the best Black choice for a dollar bill, though.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 11 2019, @12:51PM (1 child)
RACIST! How DARE you! Recant your filthy sewerage of a statement and never ever again include a person's skin colour when making a statement.
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Sunday May 12 2019, @11:00PM
What about the Jews? Can we call Jewish a skin color?