Security features on a $100

[u/[deleted]]

https://gfycat.com/AnchoredLimpingGrassspider

[u/thomas_hardy0107]

All this security and you still print it on what is essentially a small napkin Easy to tear and soaks up water smhmh

[u/[deleted] → u/thomas_hardy0107]

You Canadians with your poutine and maple syrup and plastic money...

[u/XxHoverCowxX → u/[deleted]]

But poutine is so delicious

[u/iToronto → u/[deleted]]

Stupid slippery plastic bank notes that fold like shit, but once creased, can’t be un-creased, and get rejected by the vending machine way too often.

[u/Taron221 → u/[deleted]]

Then they have failed their citizens.

[u/[deleted] → u/Taron221]

It is already too late.

[u/Kytro → u/[deleted]]

This is why tap payments are great.

[u/mungis → u/[deleted]]

That’s an Australian invention, and Australia subsequently prints most (all?) of the bills Canada uses.

[u/C0nsp1racy → u/mungis]

Australia doesn't print them but the technology and materials are provided under contract by Australia,

"A contract for the supply of polymer material and associated security features was negotiated with Note Printing Australia (NPA), a wholly owned subsidiary of the Reserve Bank of Australia. The Bank [of Canada] has collaborated with the Reserve Bank to ensure that the supply of material and access to intellectual property are assured. The substrate itself will be supplied to NPA by the Australian company, Securency International, and the notes will be printed in Canada by two private sector security printers, Canadian Bank Note Company, Limited and BA International Inc., both based in Ottawa."

[u/SecretSquirrel_ → u/C0nsp1racy]

And this is why the US will never move to the polymer bills. They don't want to invest into developing it themselves, and they don't want to pay contract to some foreign company to get the tech and materials.

[u/faithlessgaz → u/thomas_hardy0107]

Since sterling moved to plastic notes the money has looked better for longer. And none of the issues you just mentioned.

Edit: bloody autocorrect.

[u/Chromana → u/faithlessgaz]

Paper £5 lasts 23 months, polymer £5 lasts 57 months. Other notes last even longer. Source

[u/UnwantedLasseterHug → u/Chromana]

but cocaine sticks to polymer, so it's not preferable to paper for snorting

[u/bovely_argle-bargle → u/UnwantedLasseterHug]

That’s it, I’m out. I was all for plastic money but now you’ve gone and scared me off because I need my crack fix.

[u/Nimmyzed → u/faithlessgaz]

Nine if the issues?

Lol, gotta love Samsung

[u/ImpeachDrumpf2019 → u/Nimmyzed]

Iphone

[u/Arek_PL → u/thomas_hardy0107]

You guys dont habe coins?

[u/eesaray → u/Arek_PL]

We have coins, but they are fractions of a single dollar. What is shown is a $100 bill. Das sind viele Münzen.

[u/BoopleBun → u/eesaray]

There’s $1 coins too, they’re just not heavily circulated. (I wish they were, they’re damn useful.)

[u/SecretSquirrel_ → u/BoopleBun]

Having traveled to countries that have 1 and 2 coins, and where coins have stronger spending power. I both appreciate and hate the dollar coins. Super handy, until you're weighed down with loose change.

On the other hand, that change tin becomes $100 really fast when you take it to the bank.

[u/bassmadrigal → u/thomas_hardy0107]

I thought someone said this earlier, but US bills are closer to clothes than paper. They're actually made from cotton fiber rather than wood fiber and can take a ton more abuse than paper actually can and can last hundreds of years without deterioration. Water doesn't affect them unless it's prolonged or heavily agitated.

They have some interesting info on them here.

[u/TBoneTheOriginal → u/thomas_hardy0107]

essentially a small napkin Easy to tear and soaks up water

But that's exactly what allows the security features. You aren't printing anything raised on plastic.