Britain's new plastic money so hi-tech it can play vinyl records

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Accidental BBS poetry.

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Whereas paper money is fine in the dryer but not in the washing machine…

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Plastic bills have been around for a while. England didn’t invent them.

*the butterfly wings are the clear window

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I was looking for a games thread to post this in actually! Is there one? I actually searched “topic:games accidental poetry” but most of the games are more cryptically named than that…

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Pretty much all money (except the penny) is cheaper to produce than it’s face value so the Mint is already profitable and funds it’s own operation.

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Don’t know if there is one, make it and if someone complains that it already exists then problem solved! :smiley:

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These are worth less than $2, but they are pretty. I saw one wash up on a beach, because they float. My cousin told me they shrink with heat, but he also said that Zika is a conspiracy by scientists in the US, so I don’t really have any idea if he is full of shit on the shrinking bills or not. (He’s a tween, so being full of it is par for the course, and nothing against him.)

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Really? All my experiences with accidentally washing paper money showed it was no problem, though I suppose it could get ripped/mangled if it fell out of the pocket it was in.

Years ago a friend accidentally washed a US $10 that came out pink… nobody would accept it, assuming (rightly IMO) that it was counterfeit.

I’ve even heard some collectors (or unscrupulous dealers) use soap, water and an iron to make circulated notes look mint.

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I could test the heat shrink on a 20 peso note and see, but going to work today (24-30 hour cycle) so the answer would come in a couple of days.
It would be cool if you could “shrinky-dink” one.

I especially like the 500 and 1000 (or is it 200?) peso notes because they have portraits of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera.

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all I want to know is if you can fold them like paper

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Chicken tikka masala.

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They’ll fold, and are very flexible, but won’t stay folded on their own unless you put a hard crease in them. Sort of like the plastic used for dry food packaging such as beans or rice.

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Ketchup again!

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I will support your right to put ketchup in curry… Wait, no I can’t. That is one step too far you monster.

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got it… so nothing new

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I did get given a new fiver in my change the other week, but then I spent it on beer within a few minutes, so I can’t answer any of your questions (I’ve not seen one since).

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Polymer notes were invented by the Australians. There’s about 23 countries using them, 7 of them for all their previously paper notes (the rest use them for high value notes or are testing them with one or two notes to decide whether to adopt them completely.). The Australians collect as royalty on them, and for some countries the Australian reserve bank (or rather a holding company owned by the reserve bank) actually prints them (including Mexico). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymer_banknote

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I’ve heard of shrinking regular bank notes with anhydrous ammonia. Think it was posted here on boingboing even… not sure about synthetic notes though.

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Britain’s new plastic money so hi-tech it can play ruin vinyl records

FTFY

But…at least it was ABBA.

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Well the problem with putting currency through the washing machine (at least US currency) is that the detergent will cause it to fluoresce under a UV light, which is also a feature common to the types of paper used for most counterfeits.

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