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Posted 06/03/2013 6:19 pm
I saw the same story on the tabloid-news homepage for Optusnet yesterday. I had to triple-check the date to make sure it was really 3rd June rather than 1st April.
I'd believe the RBA and/or Securency might produce "test notes" to trial things - like the huge portrait OVD on the top note - and they might use a fictitious denomination to make it extra clear to everybody that they are indeed fictitious notes, just in case you didn't notice the large unfriendly "NOT LEGAL TENDER" clause.
I can't read the signatures, but they look like the kind of signatures you'd find on play money, or heck money. Neither of them look remotely like Glenn Stevens' signature, which ought to be there if these had been serious "test notes" produced anytime since 2006.
These notes "look" very old to me, with a 1960s feel to the artwork. It's possible that they may have been mock-ups for a very early push for polymer notes, long before the formula was perfected. They might even be some privately-done pieces, sent in to the government in the 1960s by a bunch of crackpots in an early effort to promote the idea of plastic money. The notes don't seem to be of the RBA's current quality; the third note seems to have developed a very bad case of delamination.
"7" simply isn't a viable number to introduce into a decimal currency system. I'm not aware of a single country that has tried it.
I'd believe the RBA and/or Securency might produce "test notes" to trial things - like the huge portrait OVD on the top note - and they might use a fictitious denomination to make it extra clear to everybody that they are indeed fictitious notes, just in case you didn't notice the large unfriendly "NOT LEGAL TENDER" clause.
I can't read the signatures, but they look like the kind of signatures you'd find on play money, or heck money. Neither of them look remotely like Glenn Stevens' signature, which ought to be there if these had been serious "test notes" produced anytime since 2006.
These notes "look" very old to me, with a 1960s feel to the artwork. It's possible that they may have been mock-ups for a very early push for polymer notes, long before the formula was perfected. They might even be some privately-done pieces, sent in to the government in the 1960s by a bunch of crackpots in an early effort to promote the idea of plastic money. The notes don't seem to be of the RBA's current quality; the third note seems to have developed a very bad case of delamination.
"7" simply isn't a viable number to introduce into a decimal currency system. I'm not aware of a single country that has tried it.
Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
