New $5 note

[Fulvio]

AA160889834 through to AA160889843

Here'a s pic of DD16 0034503

So yeah, they've added a digit to the serial, and clearly they've started from AA, since the longer serial will prevent confusion with previous series. It will be interesting to see what they do with the other denominations now.

[robbiegal]

sweet thanks!

i really thought it had braille for the vision impaired
i even told a blind old lady about it at the post office today

oospie

[Fulvio]

Something doesn't make sense though...

With the extra digit, that's 10 million sheets. At 40 notes per sheet, 400 million notes. Which would fit on a single sheet AA-DA. And yet, this DD note indicates at least a second sheet. Why? There should be no need for 170 million notes. :dodgy:

i really thought it had braille for the vision impaired

It does... sort of. It seems to have a single dot. Perhaps the others will have 2, 3, 4 and 5 dots. Typical, not going with any existing standard.

The Canadians came up with a good system, why didn't they just adopt that?

[ausjack]

a promotional vid from the RBA - no braille

https://youtu.be/WMItrUMZJMg

This link you put up clearly states they have a vision impaired feature RG.

[kchan1111]

Hi Fulvio, I got a bundle from RBA with DD prefix as well.

[ausjack]

Something doesn't make sense though...

With the extra digit, that's 10 million sheets. At 40 notes per sheet, 400 million notes. Which would fit on a single sheet AA-DA. And yet, this DD note indicates at least a second sheet. Why? There should be no need for 170 million notes. :dodgy:

i really thought it had braille for the vision impaired

It does... sort of. It seems to have a single dot. Perhaps the others will have 2, 3, 4 and 5 dots. Typical, not going with any existing standard.

The Canadians came up with a good system, why didn't they just adopt that?

:scratch_one-s_head: so that's like 2 billion dollars isn't it :huh: and we don't have any money and the country's broke and that's just the $5 so imagine how much will be around once they do all denominations :dodgy:

AA160889834 through to AA160889843

Here'a s pic of DD16 0034503

So yeah, they've added a digit to the serial, and clearly they've started from AA, since the longer serial will prevent confusion with previous series. It will be interesting to see what they do with the other denominations now.

:swoon: where's the gloves, putting grotty little finger marks all over them :dodgy:

[tooloot]

Another thing to consider - The banker I spoke to this evening (Westpac) said that as of tomorrow morning, they will be putting all the new $5 into the machine (cash changeover and the teller counters) and completely taking out all older $5 notes. So might be your last chance to properly noodle some of the older notes (if that's your thing)

[ausjack]

Knowing how slow things happen here I should be right as I'm expecting 7 to 8 months to get the new notes if it's anything like coins :dodgy:

[Fulvio]

This is Connor McLeod, the blind kid responsible for the tactile markings. He petitioned the RBA to make the new notes readable by blind people because of a Xmas gift he received.

"I got some money in a card and had no idea how much it was and how generous or tight-arsed the present-giver had been! It was frustrating and slightly embarrassing."

"If I come across something that doesn't sound right, I like to do something about it rather than just complain. That's what the Change.org tool helped me to do. Setting up the petition was the easy bit - convincing the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) was harder, but then I had a squad of 57,000 petition signers to help me persuade them. It felt unlikely they'd listen to a young blind boy. But in the end, they had to."

Connor's mum helped him start a petition on Change.org. He was just 12 at the time.

Connor and mum Ally travelled to Canberra to deliver their petition to MPs and win cross-party support, including then Assistant Treasurer Steven Ciobo. They then took the RBA to the High Court.

These actions, combined with the 57,000 petition signers writing to the RBA to keep the pressure on, resulted in victory.

"Above all, it means I can be independent", Connor said. "I can't wait for that. That feels good."



The artwork is by Aaron Tyler, who said: "Connor McLeod isn't a legend because he's blind, he's a legend because he saw an injustice and took action to make it right. Despite being told there'd be no tactile markings for blind people, he garnered support on Change.org. Next get the new fiver in your change, feel the new bumps, and think about how Connor has changed our banknotes forever. His spot on Straya Cash is a recognition of his ripper idea."

[Enlilninlil]

Lee Lin Chin is an SBS icon. Love the bacteria with flagellates.

[robbiegal]

Another thing to consider - The banker I spoke to this evening (Westpac) said that as of tomorrow morning, they will be putting all the new $5 into the machine (cash changeover and the teller counters) and completely taking out all older $5 notes. So might be your last chance to properly noodle some of the older notes (if that's your thing)

ditto
i just called the local RBA thanks to a member prompting me about them - walk past the building all the time with my work mind you but have never stepped inside the building
anyways the chickie babe on the phone said that the old $5 were being removed form circulation and no longer available through the RBA

[JeffH]

"chickie babe" indeed. That is offensive to all chickie babes except blonde ones!

Further discussion welcome at RE: Political correctness .

[Goldseeker]

So how are the note prefixes done/sequence etc?

[Fulvio]

So how are the note prefixes done/sequence etc?

What do you mean? I posted pics of the numbering blocks earlier.

Just got back from an outing to the Dentist (because I must be a masochist I guess), and stopped by all the banks in the area. Only one had any, in the form of a couple of blocks they hadn't opened yet. They flatly refused to give me bundles, saying they had to go into the machines first.

Guess they've been taking customer service pointers from woolies, eh?

[Goldseeker]

The letter prefixes as per the sheets.