Canada, we really have monopoly money now...

[Hashime]

I need to go to the bank anyways, I wonder if they will let me hold one to try it out.

 

[lacktheknack]

As a Canadian cashier, you have no idea how happy these new notes will make me. It's irritating to have to break it to a customer that no, we can't accept that bill, it's fake...

 

[Waaghpowa]

Ok, kind of makes sense, but since the difference is half a centimeter between each, its hard to see how someone could tell them apart without the other bills there.
maybe its technique... *goes off to play with his bills.*

Bear in mind that people who are blind tend to have their other senses amplified, they can feel the minute difference.

 

[Dags90]

we had polymer money back before it was cool

I think you forgot your hipster glasses and keffiyeh.

How does the plastic withstand to heat and/or solvents?

 

[Mekado]

Touched it today, shiny, slippery, can't rip it or tear it, I could barely crinkle it up.

it does crinkle eventulaly....

btw did your original money get damamged when wet? because i remember I had $5 in my pocket once..then went wading around in a wwaist deep estery...but it was fine. which is another good thing about plastic money

Hmm i guess that's kinda nice, no more destroying money when you forget some bills in your pocket in the washing machine the paper bills we had got destroyed by that usually.

we had polymer money back before it was cool

I think you forgot your hipster glasses and keffiyeh.

How does the plastic withstand to heat and/or solvents?

Not sure about solvent but heat dosen't "wrinkle" it, i just tried with my lighter (carefully, i'm not rich enough to burn 100$ bills )

 

[Vault101]

we had polymer money back before it was cool

I think you forgot your hipster glasses and keffiyeh.

How does the plastic withstand to heat and/or solvents?

considering Im not going to put my money anywhere near heat or solvents im not sure..I imagine it is more durable than paper money

plus getting it in the washing machine doesnt damage it

 

[Dags90]

considering Im not going to put my money anywhere near heat or solvents im not sure..I imagine it is more durable than paper money

plus getting it in the washing machine doesnt damage it

A tumble dryer is pretty much what I had in mind. Would be pretty nasty if you accidentally washed some bills and they melted to your pants...or are they trousers in Australia?

 

[SirDeadly]

Those notes actually look completely normal to me... After all I have grown up with these.

 

[SovietPanda]

Whats interesting in this thread is noticing how many people are bringing up their stories about issues with counterfiet money, and yet it's taken this long for you to get on the plastic money bandwagon. Growing up in australia i've never really heard of any real issues with counterfeit money. Maybe it's so hard to fake our notes that its not really a problem, or maybe we just assume its that hard and so noone gets taught to take notice. But nowhere i've worked has even had any kind of policy for checking notes. not even when i worked for Australia post or at the casino im at now. we seem to take every not at face value and never have any problems.

 

[Benny Blanco]

I don't see the problem with plasticised money personally. Aussies have had it a long, long time, though I always thought that was so it didn't get messed up when you went to the beach. As for US currency, it's ridiculous. All the same colour, all the same size. Got to be tough on blind people.

Also, there are good safety reasons not to stand around anywhere with a bundle of currency trying to work out the denomination of the notes you're holding, many of which apply to large swathes of the US.

 

[octafish]

Ok, kind of makes sense, but since the difference is half a centimeter between each, its hard to see how someone could tell them apart without the other bills there.
maybe its technique... *goes off to play with his bills.*

Bear in mind that people who are blind tend to have their other senses amplified, they can feel the minute difference.

Not every vision impaired person is Daredevil you know.

What I want to know is how much Securency bribed Canadian officials to get the contract. Just kidding Canadian treasury officials. I'm sure they don't do that...any more.

Australia is proud and pleased to give you a secure $100 note Canadians. Enjoy it, but don't try lighting cigars with one.

 

[Vault101]

considering Im not going to put my money anywhere near heat or solvents im not sure..I imagine it is more durable than paper money

plus getting it in the washing machine doesnt damage it

A tumble dryer is pretty much what I had in mind. Would be pretty nasty if you accidentally washed some bills and they melted to your pants...or are they trousers in Australia?

pants genaerally (youll find out local salg is now very americanised...I think some even refer to "chips" as french fries)

anyway I dotn think thats ever happned to me but I imagine it would be ok

 

[FilipJPhry]

"Harder to counterfeit". "Harder".
I wonder how the crooks can spend all this time and real money just to make fake money that would be detected within days of forging them.

 

[chstens]

Plastic money is used in Australia and other places as mentioned before. To my knowledge it's partially so the humidity wont ruin the notes.

 

[Kae]

Mexico has had it for years now, I don't see what's the big deal.

 

[Sandernista]

So Canadians can't show me the green?

Aw

(It's weird that people have experienced counterfeiting before, never had a bill rejected)

~American

 

[RachaelIsaacHill]

You can't compare this to monopoly money. Monopoly money is made of paper. And calling a bill monopoly money is because it comes in weird colors compared to the American greenback, ignorant Americans who are probably bad at the game came up with calling foreign currencies that.

The guy who started this is Canadian. If the money looks like Monopoly money, then it's not ignorant to state that.

The flag of Micronesia is similar to the flag of Somalia.

Oh watch out! I'm an ignorant American. Because we are all, apparently, ignorant whenever we point out things.

 

[EricKei]

(When I was little we went to America, and I remember my dad laughed cause I asked why America uses toy money [since 'toy money' was always made of paper] instead of 'real money' XD)

American money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of a cotton & linen blend. I do think that something similar to the polymer bills (especially with a "window", as above) might not be a bad idea. As was mentioned above -- the changes won't necessarily make the money impossible to counterfeit, just a lot harder...But, if that discourages most of the counterfeiters (read: the 99% who don't essentially do it for a living), so much the better -- it's progress

On a side note -- I had heard that the government here in the US was threatening to release yet another $1 coin in an attempt to get rid of $1 bills altogether. That's wonderful. While they're at it, I wonder if they could (a) PLEASE try not to make them look almost exactly like quarters (AGAIN!) this time around, and (b) get rid of the damn pennies? >_<