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Australia Prints $1.6 Billion of Currency With a Typo

The A$50 ($34.9) banknote released last October misspells the word “responsibility.”

Australia Prints $1.6 Billion of Currency With a Typo
Australian fifty dollar banknotes for representational purpose. (Photographer: Brendon Thorne/Bloomberg)

(Bloomberg) -- 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.

Nearly 400 million of the notes were printed, with 46 million in use, according to CNN, putting the total value of the currency in circulation at about A$2.3 billion.

To contact the reporter on this story: Adveith Nair in London at anair29@bloomberg.net

To contact the editor responsible for this story: Heather Harris at hharris5@bloomberg.net

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