Australian $50 note typo: spelling mistake printed 46 million times

theguardian.com ^ | May 9, 2019 | Naaman Zhou

[Berlin_Freeper]

Red faces after discovery $2.3bn worth of currency has a misprint of the word responsibility in banknote’s ‘micro-text’

... “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.

[outofsalt]

Oh well, at least they didn’t have a misplaced Starbucks cup on the bill.

[Doogle]

"..jeeezzz"

[BuffaloJack]

“... known to shrivel up or melt, if heated ...”
The abbot at the temple my wife goes to was in Toronto a few years ago, a month or two after Canada changed to plastic bills. The abbot left a metal box with several hundred dollars on the car seat while he shopped. He later discovered that all the bills were fused together.

[Fresh Wind]

In a few decades the ones that remain will become rare collector items.

Not likely. Since this has been widely reported, people will hoard them thinking they will become valuable. And because of inevitable inflation, they will never be worth more than they are today.

[9YearLurker]

Pretty amazing that Australia didn’t have a single woman in parliament until 1995.

[teeman8r]

Spelling is hard.

[metmom]

And the whole point of all that microtext that nobody is ever going to read is what,exactly?

[A Formerly Proud Canadian]

Apparently, the plastic money is more durable, and more difficult to copy than the old paper money. Obviously, there are some BIG drawbacks.

[SMGFan]

I hope microtext is impossible to replicate on counterfeits.

[DFG]

bookmark

[McGarrett]

I missed the misspelling of ‘responsibility’, I thought it for the misspelling of ‘emphasize’. Maybe they spell it as ‘emphasise’ in OZ.

[Buckeye McFrog]

I thought women were such great spellers?

My mom majored in English. My dad was an engineer.
The worst fights I ever remember them having were over his spelling.

[a fool in paradise]

Inflation will make them worthless inside a generation

[Larry Lucido]

Anything there about the Moops?

[fortes fortuna juvat]

Damn spell-checkers, I never did raly on then.

[metmom]

I suppose that’s possible.

That thought did occur to me later, but then again, who checks that closely?

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***printed 46 million times***

No sweat! By flooding nation the 46 million misprints they destroy the collector value of the money.

Remember the Dag Hammarskjöld misprint postage stamp of 1962? When discovered by a collector, the post office printed millions of the stamp with misprint to destroy it’s collector value.

[dp0622]

Lol

[COBOL2Java]

The life of paper money is short, these bills will disappear rapidly after much use. Not a real problem. Besides, who bothers reading micro-print?

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[BobL]

‘Pretty amazing that Australia didn’t have a single woman in parliament until 1995.’

Explains why they were late to open their immigration floodgates.