New Canadian currency

[Himself]

http://www.wallis.com/cdn_bills/News.htm





Icky.


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[HedsSpaz]

I don't see whats so bad about it. It's a whole heck of a lot better than our uber-crappy US bills. bleh... straight green for everything got really boring years and years ago.

[The Rock]

Thats one funky bill. It doesn't look too bad I suppose. Better than US currency for sure. I don't know how you Americans can even SEE what bill your giving the waitress when your getting tanked in a dark bar.

Bart

[Himself]

Shhhh, don't say that or else they will make the 5 and 20 glow in the dark.

[Sasq]

sorry I don't know of a link but if you get chance check out the Aussie notes, pink/purple for $5, blue for $10, red/ornange for $20, yellow/gold for $50 and green for $100 plus there made from plastic

at least we don't get em confussed in the dark unless we're really drunk

[agallag]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">The current notes will remain legal tender even after the new notes are introduced.</font>

Kind of defeats the purpose of all the new security features doesn't it? Just counterfeit the old ones. I don't understand why they wouldn't expire the old ones after a certain grace period, a couple of years maybe.

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Andrew
Carpe Cerevisi

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[paulcs]

Eventually, old notes end up at banks. I think banks exchange them for the newer models with the Dept. of the Treasury, and Treasury destroys them. There are always a lot of older notes in circulation, and I suspect people would freak if the cash they had to make the exchange themselves.

I guess the best you could expect is that, eventually, a brand new, crisp discontinued note would arouse suspicion.

Paul
paulcs@flashcom.net

[Pneumatic]

They should put Geddy Lee on the $20, Alex Lifeson on the $50 and Neil Peart on the $100! All good Ontario boys.

Just for grins go ahead and put Alex Trebek on the penny and Alan Thicke on the nickle.

[Brian R.]

When I'm going to a dark bar, I put my ones in my front-right pocket, my fives in the front-left pocket, the tens in my left-rear pocket, and the twenties in my socks...

[Vlip]

Well and what happens when you are short of everything except from 20 $ bills?
You buy something costing 2$ with a 20$ one and end with 1 10$ 1 5$ and 3 1$.
I'd like to see you twisting around for 5 minutes to put all of them in the good pocket

Vlip

[Himself]

I don't think the web pic does them justice myself, the purple is several shades darker, picture purple nachos.

[Himself]

What's really missing is the intricate swirls and patterns of line art that were on previous bills, impressionistic spirograph art.

[Himself]

http://www.gilmer.net/currency/gallery/north/canada/

[Paddy]

where's that colour printer....

[Himself]

The trend seems to be bigger heads and less art.