I had a really strange encounter with a five dollar note yesterday. I was on an express, giving a customer their change, which consisted of a $5 note.
I was about to pull it out from under the clip, when I saw this (minus the SPECIMEN)...
I looked at it for a few seconds, noticing several things that were different.
- Watermark size and shape
- Different head on the note
- Different colour
- Black/dark borders around the top
- Six shield like squares on bottom left
- A brighter pink colour than the rest
- Watermark had pink in it
- The note has pink lines going through it.
And that is just the front of the note. I IMMEDIATELY called a supervisor, and the duty manager came over, I showed him the note, he was surprised. He stood there comparing it to a normal note, but because it had a legit watermark (numbers/etc on it), he came to the conclusion it was genuine.
I looked on Wikipedia that night, and found it was a special commonwealth note.
Geeze the government know how to scare somebody! haha
Go to:
Banknotes of the Australian dollar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Scroll down to
Current series (polymer). You'll see what I mean by the colour/brightness/etc (compared to regular $5 note).
I was praised for having a sharp eye and picking it up.