TYPO DISCOVERED IN AUSTRALIAN BANKNOTE DESIGN

You had one responsibility.

The Reserve Bank was left scrambling for answers on Thursday morning after radio station Triple M posted a photo on Twitter sent in by aneagle-eyed listener.

The photo shows the RBA's new $50 note under a magnifying glass and reveals an embarrassing typo in the reverse text, which features excerpts fromEdith Cowan's maiden speech to Western Australian Parliament.

News.com.au has confirmed the typo is indeed real.

In the phrase "it is a great responsibility to be the only woman here", the word "responsibility" is misspelt as "responsibilty" - threetimes.

An RBA spokesman said, "The Reserve Bank of Australia is aware of it and the spelling will be corrected at the next print run."

He confirmed there had been "around 400 million" $50 banknotes printed with the error, with 46 million already in circulation.

"The next print run will commence around the middle of the year," he said.

"It is the first print run of the $50 banknote we have done since the error was detected. These banknotes will be ready to be released intocirculation around the end of the year."

Rare currency dealer Jim Noble from Noble Numismatics said this was the first time in its history the RBA had pushed a typo through tocirculation.

"They do misprint notes but they're individual happenings rather than the whole production," Mr Noble said.

He added the RBA had "printed millions" so it was "not going to be rare".

To read the complete article, see:

Huge typo spotted onnew $50 note (https://www.news.com.au/finance/money/costs/huge-typo-spotted-on-50-note/news-story/9aaa0746cd939ab2731241840ba954c6)

Pablo Hoffman writes:

Kavan Ratnatunga writes:

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:

IN LETTERS WE TRUST: BANKNOTE TYPOGRAPHY(https://www.coinbooks.org/v22/esylum_v22n08a15.html)

To read the complete article, see:

The $50 note has anEMBARRASSING typo (https://au.finance.yahoo.com/news/australian-50-dollar-note-has-a-big-typo-002317145.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=ma)

To read some other articles, see:

Australia's A$50 note misspells responsibility(https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-48210733)
Getting the Spelling Right on 46 Million Bank Notes? It'sa Big Responsibilty (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/09/world/australia/australia-50-dollar-bill.html)