RBA not fazed by Australian $50 note typo

Re:RBA not fazed by Australian $50 note typo by SilasX on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @04:02PM (#20226800)

Really? Isn't it going to throw a lot of false positives when people try to spend them and the cashier thinks that the misspelling means it's counterfeit?

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Re:RBA not fazed by Australian $50 note typo by PhasmaFelis on Thursday June 20, 2019 @10:25AM (#20233214)

46 million bills were in circulation for 8 months before the first person even noticed the typo, so probably not, no.

I've been a cashier, and trust me, we had more important things to do than examine bills with a magnifying glass looking for spelling errors. If a bill seemed suspicious at a quick glance, I swiped it with the counterfeit detector pen, and if it came out fine, I shrugged and put it in the register.

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Re:RBA not fazed by Australian $50 note typo by fivefive55 on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @05:23PM (#20227485)

You really think any cashier is going to read the microtext on every bill they get? You practically need a magnifying glass just to see the typo. It's an absolute non-issue no matter what way you spin it.

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Re:RBA not fazed by Australian $50 note typo by was_boring on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @04:16PM (#20226913)

Did it though? It's been in circulation for years.

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Re:RBA not fazed by Australian $50 note typo by SilasX on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @04:19PM (#20226932)

I thought the version with the typo was recent?

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Re:RBA not fazed by Australian $50 note typo by was_boring on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @04:40PM (#20227112)

Years is probably an over statement on my part. A second read indicates probably a year and half.

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