Australia Prints $1.6 Billion of Currency With a Typo
Australia's new 50 dollar banknote with the spelling mistake.
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Australia’s most widely circulated banknote has a typo.
The A$50 ($34.9) banknote released last October misspells the word “responsibility.” The note features a portrait of the country’s first female parliamentarian, Edith Cowan, and the error appears in microprint featuring excerpts of her first speech to the Western Australian Parliament.