| Australian Banknote Catalogue Printing Errors |
2012 Print Error
Printing errors in catalogues are rare.
Those that do happen may not affect pricing, but may just cause confusion.
The 2013 Pocket Guide to Australian Coins and Banknotes by Greg McDonald contains a print error regarding the
r406aL/Mc186b Knight/Wheeler $20 Last Prefix Centre Thread
banknote.
The history of the prefix in that publication is
2009 Page 405 XSU [to be confirmed]
2010 Page 405 XSU [to be confirmed]
2011 Page 405 XSJ
2012 Page 403 XSJ
2013 Page 493 XSJ
The Rennicks Australian Coin and Banknote 24th Edition [March 2011] shows XSU [Page 210] as the correct prefix.
2008 Print Error
Printing errors in catalogues are rare.
Those that do happen may not affect pricing, but may just cause confusion.
That was the case with the 15th McDonald's catalogue.
The mystery "19" listings
In The Pocket Guide to Australian Coins and Banknotes FIFTEENTH EDITION by Greg McDonald we had the situation where the wrong Rennicks
numbers were used. These were
- r319 [Page 432]
- r419 [Page 436]
- r519 [Page 439]
These Renniks numbers do not exist, as shown in the 22nd edition of the Rennicks Coin and Banknote
Values catalogue.
- r320 [Page 184]
- r420 [Page 188]
- r520 [Page 190]
Two of the above errors were rectified in the Sixteenth Edition.
The [SIXTEENTH] edition failed to correct the errors for r519 [Page 410]
The most surprising thing regarding these errors was that they were not picked up by many people. Such
is the popularity of this publication that everything is accepted without question. Every eBay seller
and nearly every website [of highly regarded professional dealers] carried these mistakes.
As mentioned above, some of the errors have now been rectified, but as with every printing error, it takes
at least 12 months to make a correction.
The [SEVENTEENTH] edition has correct the errors relating to r519 notes [Page 410]
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