another bonus fact! CDN money has an embedded hologram that will project the denomination when a laser pointer is shone through it. great party trick.
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Nifty! And apparently it's a security feature
Look at Mr Moneybags here with a $100
Annnnnd despite the mint saying there is no maple scent on the 100's$ was there lol
People kept licking them, it was (is) a problem.
Bills are super dirty
At least the polymer ones can be cleaned and the dirt on them is just really on them and not like the cotton filth sponges.
This is awesome
A---Aurora Borealis? At this time of year! At this time of day! In this part of the country! Localized entirely within your pockets?!?
Can I see it?
No
Well Seymour, I must say, you are an odd fellow
This reminds me that ths US Defense Department issued a warning about the painted quarters because they thought it was spying tech.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/alleged-canadian-spy-coin-deemed-harmless/
The odd-looking — but harmless — "poppy coin" was so unfamiliar to suspicious U.S. Army contractors traveling in Canada that they filed confidential espionage accounts about them. The worried contractors described the coins as "anomalous" and "filled with something man-made that looked like nano-technology," according to once-classified U.S. government reports and e-mails obtained by the AP.
looked like nano-technology
Clearly speaking from experience due to all the nanotechnology they've previously seen with their unaided eyes.
Americans are so wierdly ass backwards about currency tech.
Making bills out of not cotton? Fuck you
Making bills of different values different colours or sizes? Fuck you
Adding brail or addition security like hard to copy windows and holographic images? Fuck you
Coins coming in different styles? Fuck you
Coins above a 50 cent piece? Fuck you (unless it's a collectable).
US money is counterfeit at such high levels, no one wants to bring in anti-counterfeit measures like other countries because an audit would bring bad news.
But they can't be counterfeit, where would one find this elusive cotton?
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Funnily you very rarely see the Sacagawea dollar coins in circulation the US (albeit more than the $2 billion) but we ship a massive number of those dollar coins overseas to Ecuador which officially uses USD. Incredibly common since many expenses there are in the couple dollars sort of range and you barely see $1 bills at all since many people refuse to accept worn-out bills.
also El Salvador uses USD officially and most day to day purchases are under $1 so the dollar coins are very prevalent there too.
tripped me out when I got there and didn't need to convert my cash lol
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Two dollar bills? Obviously the work of the devil! Better burn them to be sure!
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Quarters have been coming out in different styles for almost 30 years, they added different colors to larger denominations maybe 5 or 10 years ago, pretty sure they've had holographic security features for 20 or more.
See the picture of the later pointer though the $100 CAD bill posted above (or below)? That's what I mean by holographic features, you need a clear part of the bill to do that. There are magnetic, uv and micro printed security in almost all bills around the world, but people are not pulling out a tool to read the magnetic franking on a note they recive. With polymer notes its very viable when a security feature is missing or fake (one "trick" is packing tape for over two printouts) making usable counterfeits more costly then the note is worth.
The usd is the most counterfeited currency while the nations using polymer bills have almost zero incidents of it. Yet people (even right here) seem to feel the need to defend their silly green cotton based money from the past.
I'm not "defending" it, I'm pointing out misinformation as I understand it. I made and make no judgements on said information. Also, just fyi, I think this sentence:
With polymer notes its very viable when a security feature is missing or fake (one "trick" is packing tape for over two printouts) making usable counterfeits more costly then the note is worth.
...is missing some words or something, I can't parse what you're trying to say.
Auto correct. Not viable but visible.
Ah got it, makes sense now, thanks!
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Wow. You guys have man made coins. Elsewhere we have to make use the wild grown coins.
I wonder if this is indirectly admitting that they either considered or do spy via coins. Every accusation is an admission and all...
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I have so many of these. I mentioned to my boyfriend at the time that I thought they were neat. He swapped out every toonie in the till like this and gave them to me for months while they were in circulation.
I have been giving them out as souvenirs when I visit other countries, but maybe I should actually count how many I have and retire early.
Is it the kind that need to be in the light for a few hours first? Because if so, I have some news about pockets.
Maybe it uses uranium to glow.
That’s a resource we do have…we are planning to slowly mutate ourselves to superiority
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Colorful money, seems like this is our final positive claim to fame xD
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