Genuine Australian polymer notes carry several deliberate verification features: a clear window with a printed image visible from both sides, raised (tactile) print you can feel with a fingernail, small "Reserve Bank of Australia" microprint, and colour-shifting elements that change under different light angles.
These features exist so a cashier, a vending machine, or an ordinary person can quickly tell genuine currency from a reproduction. The Reserve Bank of Australia publishes guidance on checking notes, and banks and retailers use note-checking tools built around exactly these features.
Every one of those verification features is something a compliant prop note is built to avoid replicating. Our notes carry no clear window, no colour-shifting ink, and no microprint security text — by design, not by manufacturing limitation. Combined with a size that differs from genuine currency by at least 25% and a clear NOT LEGAL TENDER mark, the goal is a product that reads as convincing on camera from a normal viewing distance, while never being mistaken for genuine currency up close.
This is also why we don't offer buyer-specified serial numbers on any product — genuine notes carry unique serials as part of their security design, and a novelty reproduction has no legitimate reason to imitate that system.
If you're ever handed a note and want to check it yourself, the fastest genuine checks are the clear window (a hologram-style image visible from both sides) and the raised print along key numerals — features no compliant prop note will have.
Frequently asked
What's the fastest way to check if a note is genuine?
Look for the clear polymer window with a printed image visible from both sides, and feel for raised print — features not present on compliant prop notes.
Why don't your prop notes have a clear window?
That feature exists specifically to prove currency is genuine — replicating it on a novelty product would defeat the entire purpose of clear compliance marking.