Looks like the USA is going to be one of the last countries to make the switch.
I know when they were introduced to Canada they were printed in Australia, not sure if that is still the case.
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The way things are going at the moment, it won’t be long before they are worth more than a British fiver.
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Canada has plastic money too. I have a few bills sitting on my fridge for whenever I make the trip up north so I have some spare cash.
It’s not hard to create a device that plays vinyl records. Just a piece of paper rolled into a cone with a pin taped to the end will make a perfectly serviceable DIY Victrola (note: don’t try this on a record you actually like).
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Fuck yeah, #murica! Just like the metric system, plastic Monopoly money is reserved for those commie socialist countries.
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Should have been a beaver butt that smelled like vanilla…
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Haven’t australia had plastic money since, like, the 80s? Welcome to the past!
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Why is there a Pacman ghost on it?
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So it doesn’t just wokka way?
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Who would be so crass?!?
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Apparently some of the first ever plastic banknotes used Tyvek (in Haiti in the 1970s or 1980s) but they were discontinued due to problems with ink adhesion.
yes, washing Euro notes is not a problem at all (probably for both “washing” cases, though one of them can be a shortcut to prison when one is careless). but than paper money is not paper here but a fabric based on cotton.
Glad someone pointed this out. I still remember (aged 7) being blown away by the introduction of our first $5 polymers way back in 1992. Now 24 years later we’ve just rolled out the second generation of $5ers. I believe the Reserve Bank Australia is planning on releasing a new note each year for the next 4 years.
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Yeah well, you haven’t had a chance to miss paper money yet. Here in Oz, I’ve been missing it twenty years. Stupid plastic shit jumps out of your hands, slips out of your pocket easier, and permanently folds, so that a crumpled note can’t be flattened.
It’s plenty durable, but it’s completely shit otherwise.
Oh, and fresh notes smell foul.
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IIRC, it’s the third - there was an initial prototype $5 they ironed out the kinks with; I seem to recall the ink on those didn’t last so well. Pretty sure it was redesigned when they had it sorted.
So much depends on
The red turntable
A hole for a handle
The crank had been lost
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AFAIK most “paper” money is the same or similar – very sturdy high-tech paper, special inks that don’t wash out. Certainly Canadian paper money was like that.
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I think it’s the fourth.
There was the original release from 1992, the darker-coloured version a year or two later, then a centenary of federation note in 2001 with Henry Parkes on it and finally the new one.
Drop a beat under this and we’re golden
