$50 Polymer High Serial

Youve come to the right place fo stats on notes because Goatieman is the man. He collects $50 notes so I'm sure he would love to hear about yours. Seems like a pretty high serial to me! Definitely a keeper. Could you post a picture of it?

The more matching numbers it has, the bigger the jackpot. It will look very pretty with so many 9's ;)

Yup thats a lot of 9s FNQ...wheres that Goatieman when you need him?...lol

Nice note probably about good fine by the scan & i'd be keeping it if I were you.

Not in great nick but the serial is the value I guess.Just wondering what it might be worth...ball park figure....any guesses?

That's a beauty. Would have been in the same bundle as the almost mythical 99 999999

Its a ripper alright ...and it aint mythical! Wheres the Goatieman? hes the expert,wonder how rare he thinks it is.Glad you guys like it,just goes to show you what you can find in ya ATM withdrawals

Hi all, I'm back...been far too busy the past couple of days.



A question before I speculate? Can I buy it? That would look nice in my collection. I'll pay the serial number divided by one million which equals $99.999958 or I'll round it up to $100.

What a ripper! I've looked long & hard at 1999 serials & the highest I could find in circulation was 99999576.

As for the odds & what not...here goes.

1999 saw $50 notes have five seperate print runs, being:
AA99 - DA99 (each print run was made up of 40 prefixes)
DB99 - GB99
GC99 - JC99
JD99 - MD99
ME99 - PE99

It was the third highest print run ($50) from 13 years.

There were 162,479,800 notes.

There were 160 prefixes ranging from AA to PE.

This means that there would be 159,880 (what I call) very/extremely high serials 999,900 to 999,999. (in $50's in 1999)
Yours fits in here!!

So out of the 162,479,800 notes in which 159,880 would be very high serials, the percentage is 0.0983753% or just plain 0.1%. This means that at time of release if you only searched the 1999 $50's your chances of getting a very high serial would be 1 in only 1,016, which nearly as scarce as a radar serial.

To get your mind ticking over even further, using the stats from the RBA's latest Banknotes on Issue & the 2011 Vort Report, it'd mean that (theoretically) searching through the entire circulating $50 currency in Australia right now would mean:

486 million $50's circulating
18.0% Macfarlane/Evans (of which 47.8% were 1999)
Which would mean that the 1999 $50's still circulating would be: 41,864,254
Crunching those figures down with the figures of how scarce a 1999 $50 with very high serial number would mean that the following number exist:
41,184
a percentage of 0.008474%
or a 1 in 11,801 which is scarcer than a radar repeater i.e 939939 or an 8-digit radar 99011099.

Nice score...I want it

I'm feeling a little jealous right about now...