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[Miss Chicken]

I don't think America will ever use polymer bank notes because the patent to produce them is owned by Note Printing Australia which is the manufacturing branch of the Reserve Bank of Australia.

If America wanted polymer bank notes they would either have to have them printed in Australia, or develop new technology that doesn't infringe the Australian patent, or else pay the Reserve Bank for the right to print the notes in America.

The Canadian $100 note is printed in Australia along with every other polymer bank note used by several different countries.

 

[ares93]

Ambitious those Aussies, aren't they? Taking over the world economy like that...

(I honestly didnt know that the aussies printed the polymer notes...)

 

[Miss Chicken]

It looks like I was slightly wrong

Australia was the first country to have all polymer banknotes, but the rest of the world is starting to follow our lead. Note Printing Australia has produced banknotes for Thailand, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Kuwait, Western Samoa, Singapore, Brunei, Sri Lanka and New Zealand.
Blank polymer substrate is also sold to a number of countries that print bank notes using their own facilities. The material is supplied by Securency Pty Ltd, a joint venture between the Reserve Bank of Australia and Innovia Films. Together with CSIRO, they are pushing towards better polymer substrates and new tricks to outsmart counterfeiters.

So other countries are printing their own notes on australian made polymer substrate.

http://www.questacon.edu.au/indepth/clever/plastic_banknotes.html

 

[Miss Chicken]

People might like to see polymer bank notes being made. I think this video is quite interesting

[yt]http://m.youtube.com/index?desktop_uri=%2F&gl=AU#/watch?v=YTggA4jVPj0[/yt]

 

[TorontoTrekker]

A co-worker brought one of the new $100 bills into the office today and was showing everyone. They feel really weird - kind of slimy. (But that may have been because it was new.)

I think it must have been redesigned over the last week or two, because I couldn't see the near-obscene shape in the plastic window that everyone was complaining about.

This was the second time a co-worker has brought in money to show off - about ten years ago, someone I worked with was showing everyone the $1000 bill he had just gotten from the bank. (They're light purple, and have Queen Elizabeth on them.)

 

[Tosk]

Just for the heck of it, US vs AUS money...

 

[MacLeod]

Just face it. You lot have boring money...

OTOH, we Yanks think lots of other countries' money looks like Monopoly money.

I was never under the impression that money should be exciting.

It's not the money that's exciting. It's the neat stuff you can buy when you have a lot of it.

And I thought it was the Euro that looked like monopoly money.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

Just face it. You lot have boring money...

OTOH, we Yanks think lots of other countries' money looks like Monopoly money.

I was never under the impression that money should be exciting.

It's not the money that's exciting. It's the neat stuff you can buy when you have a lot of it.

And I thought it was the Euro that looked like monopoly money.

It does!

 

[Canadave]

Just for the heck of it, US vs AUS money...

Whenever I go to Australia, I'm going to be messed up. In Canada, ten is purple and the five is blue:

 

[Miss Chicken]

Even more confusing for you is that in Australia, it is the $20 that is orange, the $50 is yellowi and the $100 is green.

 

[RoJoHen]

Just for the heck of it, US vs AUS money...

That US money is old. It doesn't look like that anymore.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

Here are the current US currency notes:



And the $1 coin:

 

[Canadave]

^ From what I've seen, though, nobody actually uses that $1 coin. The USA really needs to phase out the $1 bill for it to take off.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

^ From what I've seen, though, nobody actually uses that $1 coin. The USA really needs to phase out the $1 bill for it to take off.

You can always tell who just came from the post office, because they're one of the few places that frequently give $1 coins as change.

I'd much rather retain the dollar bill than the coin, though. I rarely use cash any more, but what I do carry I want firmly folded up in my wallet and not hanging out all loosy goosy. I don't approve of your free-swinging coin lifestyle, sir.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

Yeah, I've had my share of those Sacajawea coins from the post office. I haven't seen a $2 bill in ages, though! I know they were discontinued for a while, but now they're back. Just seems like nobody actually uses them, especially since it can get you arrested.

 

[Holdfast]

Just face it. You lot have boring money...

OTOH, we Yanks think lots of other countries' money looks like Monopoly money.

I was never under the impression that money should be exciting.

It's not the money that's exciting. It's the neat stuff you can buy when you have a lot of it.

And I thought it was the Euro that looked like monopoly money.

Don't feel too bad, the PIIGS actually spent it like it was.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

I haven't seen a $2 bill in ages, though! I know they were discontinued for a while, but now they're back. Just seems like nobody actually uses them, especially since it can get you arrested.

I've always loved Jefferson's tilted head and expression on the $2 bill. He's like "You're shitting me, right? You put me on the goddamn $2 bill?"

 

[Canadave]

^ From what I've seen, though, nobody actually uses that $1 coin. The USA really needs to phase out the $1 bill for it to take off.

I'd much rather retain the dollar bill than the coin, though. I rarely use cash any more, but what I do carry I want firmly folded up in my wallet and not hanging out all loosy goosy. I don't approve of your free-swinging coin lifestyle, sir.

Just get a wallet with a coin pouch. I always make sure my wallets have them, and they work great. I've got about eight dollars worth of coins in there right now, not including the subway tokens I'm carrying.

 

[RoJoHen]

^ From what I've seen, though, nobody actually uses that $1 coin. The USA really needs to phase out the $1 bill for it to take off.

You can always tell who just came from the post office, because they're one of the few places that frequently give $1 coins as change.

I'd much rather retain the dollar bill than the coin, though. I rarely use cash any more, but what I do carry I want firmly folded up in my wallet and not hanging out all loosy goosy. I don't approve of your free-swinging coin lifestyle, sir.

I'm the same. Coins are a pain in the ass. I usually just stick them in a jar and put them in the bank when the jar is full. If I had to start carrying them around, I'd be pretty annoyed.

I don't think it's going to happen, though, so I'm not worried.

 

[Alidar Jarok]

I've always loved Jefferson's tilted head and expression on the $2 bill. He's like "You're shitting me, right? You put me on the goddamn $2 bill?"

I never noticed that before.