OT: Reserve Bank of Australia misspells "responsibilty" on 46M notes...

BackroadJunkie · May 9, 2019 10:08AM

Ooops.

bbc:Australia's A$50 note misspells responsibility

It took more than six months for someone with a good magnifying glass to spot the typo.

lol, those observant Aussies...

I know Ben Franklin purposely misspelled words on paper notes to befuddle counterfeiters, but hey, that was 250 years ago.

Hopefully, the guys at the BEP use a spellchecker...

(I checked this message three times to make sure I didn't misspell anything...)

JBK · May 9, 2019 10:30AM

ricko · May 9, 2019 10:36AM

Classic bureaucratic error... no doubt a sign off process that includes several departments and levels of approval... all thinking the last one's checked it all.... Cheers, RickO

Hemispherical · May 9, 2019 10:40AM

Don’t know which is worse the misspelling or that it took about six months for it to be noticed. Then I found out where the typo is located. No wonder it took so long and it must have been a currency collector.

Where is it? Find the house on the back left of the note. Find the steps or walkway. Find the bushes to right of the steps or left of the walkway. Find where the bushes meet the roadway. Bingo!

Australian currency is printed on a special polymer... layman’s... plastic.

Since Australian currency is not a familiar sight around here, this is what the currency looks like:

The typo:

BackroadJunkie · May 9, 2019 11:17AM

@Hemispherical said:
Don’t know which is worse the misspelling or that it took about six months for it to be noticed. Then I found out where the typo is located. No wonder it took so long and it must have been a currency collector.

Every time a new US note is issued, it is examined to the most minute detail. (You can probably find a dozen YouTube videos on new currency.) It would have been noticed in days.

On the other hand, there was that "Thonsand" gold certificate that no one noticed...

(From Coin World)
A ‘thonsand’ dollar Series 1882 gold certificate?

“One Thonsand Dollars.” Once its pointed out, it sits there and stares at you, causing you to wonder if you’re imagining things. For over 130 years, not a word was ever mentioned about what may be one of the most significant spelling errors to appear on a piece of U.S. paper currency produced by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. That was, until Doug Murray got to work.