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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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
Nifty! And apparently it's a security feature
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.
replaces coin CMOS battery with nuclear coin
Power plant owners hate it when you do this one simple trick.
That’s a resource we do have…we are planning to slowly mutate ourselves to superiority
Illumioonie?
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.
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?
It looks fake when not. They make fun of our money but the us's looks and is from another time.
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.
Almost as if Ecuador knows how to money and the states is a wierd place.
Two dollar bills? Obviously the work of the devil! Better burn them to be sure!
Nah, I'm all for cotton for money bills. While they don't last very long, it's better than more plastic shit 100% of the time.
As someone who had to fix the bank machines during both cotton and polymer, you are 100% crazy. Cotton notes are nasty and wasteful.
You could view cotton notes as providing job opportunities :P
But still: I'd rather waste five times as many cotton notes than have even more plastic going around and being lost. At least lost cotton decays, whereas lost plastic will just stay around forever.
You ever have to clean anything that works with cotton bills? All that oil and dirt on your grubby hands is in those bills. Polymer bills don't absorb anything and unlike other plastics they do get collected and recycled (you know since they are money). And the dies and chemicals needed to make those cotton bills? Yeah not good.
I wonder if this is indirectly admitting that they either considered or do spy via coins. Every accusation is an admission and all...
“filled with something man-made that looked like nano-technology
or, paint.
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
uh, before i lick this, how does it glow?
strontium aluminate.
Likely not radium, at least I think we learned that lesson.
If I’ve learned anything in my 45 years, it’s that humans have a remarkably short memory and repeat past mistakes at a staggering rate
Well that one was a kinda big lesson. But yeah maybe radiation "cures" will make a comeback.
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 that called a Gloonie? Glownie?
Bonus! the Canadian mint actually mints coins for other countries. All euro coins for example.
I couldn't find anything on that, do you have a source for the Canadian Mint making "all euro coins" and what that is intended to mean?
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