Thursday 19 / September / 2024
Muscat: A typo was discovered on one of the new Australian 50 dollar notes, which began circulating over seven months ago, where the banknote misspells the word ‘Responsibility’ as ‘Responsibilty’.
A spokesperson for the Reserve Bank of Australia said that they have acknowledged the existence of a printing error and that “it will be corrected in the next print run.”
The new 50 dollar note features Edith Cowan, who became “became a member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia and the first female member of any Australian parliament,” in 1921, according to the bank.
The mistake in the banknote is in the microprint of the bank note, which includes parts of Cowan’s first speech to the Western Australian Parliament.
A statement by the bank read, “The microprint includes excerpts of Unaipon's book, Legendary Tales of the Australian Aborigines, and Cowan's first speech to the Western Australian Parliament.
“The new banknote also has the same security features as the $5 and $10 to deter counterfeiting. It has a top-to-bottom clear window that contains a number of dynamic features including a reversing number and flying bird, as well as microprint and a patch with a rolling colour effect.
It also has a ‘tactile’ feature to help the vision-impaired community distinguish between different denominations of banknotes. On the $50 banknote, this is four raised bumps on each of the long edges of the banknot.”
According to the bank, the banknote began circulating in October 2018, and the $50 note accounts “for nearly half of the total value of banknotes in use, and it is the denomination primarily used in ATMs.
