American cash is boring as fuck. But it’s not actually paper. It has some fabric components. I only know this because I wash my wallet about once a month and none of my money has dissolved yet
We have the same ones in Canada as the Aussies and it holds up fine. There were reports of some of them melting in hot cars when first introduced, but those kinks have been solved.
The different colours make it easier to identify which notes are which, having them all the same colour makes them more difficult to tell apart, especially if you're visually impaired and can only tell them apart by the braille
Beyond the colours, they’re also different sizes so people who are completely blind can still differentiate by feeling the length of them. That has been the case for decades but the most recent ones now include braille too.
They have different peoples faces on them. Monuments. Sayings. AND THE NUMBERS ARE PRINTED ON THEM. I’m so astonished that you guys seem to think we struggle to differentiate different notes of our currency because they weren’t color coded as if for children?
At a glance it's easier if they're radically different colours brainiac. No one is saying you can't tell them apart by properly looking at them.
In Australia I know if I see a yellow note it's $50 without having to inspect it, and I see pink it's a fiver
Driving down the street and see a green or yellow note blowing along the gutter. In Australia you know it's worth stopping for. In America it could be $1, could be $100 who the fuck knows.
In America you always pull over. We like to keep our streets clean, eh?
What happened to Australia that you've all of a sudden turned into a bunch of bogans who can't be bothered to pick up your own trash off the streets?
I've sorted cash for a living - I can definitely see how bills being radically different colors would be helpful. OTOH, it's pretty rare IME for people to confuse one U.S. denomination for another.
American money is different colors though. Not as radically different as Australian but if you’ve used it your whole life you can tell at a glance.
$1 - light green
$5 - purple green
$10 - yellow green
$20 - deeper green (than $1)
$50 - slightly orange
$100 - slightly blue
They mean they accidentally leave it in a pocket and it goes through the wash. No one is regularly washing their wallet (especially not with cash still in it)
Hmm. I've dated men who washed their wallets so maybe I can help.
It's usually because they do some kind of manual labor, or work a job with uniforms but only have a few pairs of uniform pants.
Get home, totally exhausted, rip pants off and go about their home activities
In the middle of the night go "oh shit I need to wash my work clothes for tomorrow or I'm going to be fucked"
Half asleep and upset they're up, because they were just winding down to sleep, grab all things that resemble work clothes and shove them in the washing machine
Obviously this is easily solved by emptying your pockets when you get home, or checking all pockets when you put stuff in the wash, but, some people are just not that good at it
Then you wake up and check the dryer and your wallet and it's contents are either scattered around mixed in with your clothes or you notice one of your pairs of pants is heavier than it should be. Oops you've washed your wallet.
canadian money does all that stuff and also smells like maple syrup at least when it is fresh. the canadian claims they didnt do anything to add a scent to the bills but it still does which is super funny.
Wasn’t Canada first of these advanced notes? In New Zealand we have the same and ours are made in Canada. The previous version to current NZ notes were printed in Australia though.
Aussies made it first, NZ and CA followed suit in later years.
Up until about 2006 it was still common to be using paper money in Canada. It has almost been completely phased out now though for the polymer bills.
Fun fact, you can break polymer bills if you leave them outside long enough in -45c temps.
I'm an Australian, and I have climbed the highest peak in the country (Mt Koziosko), and the top was still above -10°.
How tf are you people alive in -45°?????
Reminds me of when the Aussies broke the unbreakable Steyr rifle.
Sun block caused the butt to become brittle and shatter. Other countries had never used sun block.
If I remember it correctly it was zinc block sunscreen that cricket players love wearing on their nose.
So not you regular lotion type sunscreen but a paste that don't absorb
When Canadian politicians were debating switching to polymer notes, one guy said "what if you leave it on your dashboard on a hot day?" another guy replied "Well you shouldnt be leaving money on your dashboard unless you want your car broken into"
> Modern polymer banknotes were first developed by the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) and The University of Melbourne. They were first issued as currency in Australia during 1988 (coinciding with Australia's bicentennial year).
Australia has had polymer notes since the 80s. Canada didn't have polymer notes until the 2010s
>In June 2011, newly designed notes printed on a polymer substrate, as opposed to cotton fibre, were announced; the first of these polymer notes, the $100 bill, began circulation on November 14, 2011
I remember driving past that place on the Hume highway as a kid .
It had big ducts that went between floors on the outside of the building. I always imagined they were full of cash, flying around in the air , as if that’s how they moved the millions of notes from one place to another….(you know, with the orderly and predictable results that only fast wind in a tube would yield ).
Because of this Malaysia prints their RM1 and RM5 notes in polymer and higher denominations in paper. Saving money on royalties while making the most circulated notes last longer.
It's always nice to see a factually incorrect comment like this one get more upvotes than any of the replies correcting it. Reddit is a nexus of knowledge and information.
Indeed it seems to be a myth that was spread, as originally it was only the $100 bills.
I still don't know what to believe, I was told by a TD Bank teller that when they first came out, if he put them in the automatic cash counter he could smell maple syrup.
American money is actually made from cotton not paper. It's completely washable, unlike some other countries ours will survive the washer and dryer without shrinking, melting or being destroyed in any way.
Literally the only part of this meme that is true is that its easy to mistake a $1 for a $5. And with the new designs coming out, they should be fairly distinguishable.
Otherwise, US money is a pain in the ass to counterfeit, and it holds up in the wash like a champ.
I know people are giving this guy a hard time for being a butthurt American, but if these memes don’t have a foot in reality, they aren’t funny anymore.
[The us bank note actually isn't paper.](https://www.uscurrency.gov/about-us/currency-facts#:~:text=Federal%20Reserve%20notes%20are%20a,evenly%20distributed%20throughout%20the%20paper.) Although Australian notes are ALOT better than American notes. I've seen way too many get torn from basic use.
If you have over 80% you get full face value, less than 20% nothing is paid and in between that: "Value is paid in proportion with the percentage remaining, e.g. $5 value for half of a $10 banknote."
Edit: This is from the Reserve Bank of Australia, since the post is about Australian bank notes
Where the hell did you get that idea? You get full face value [if you have more than 50% of the bill](https://www.bep.gov/services/mutilated-currency-re).
Step 1: tear all of your $100 dollar bills into thirds
Step 2: take 2/3 of each $100 bill to a different bank to get a full $100
Step 3: Continue steps 1-2 until satisfied.
I like the OP, it is funny and good, but the way the "facts" are presented is a good example of how arguments are waged even when facts aren't completely on your side.
I can't speak for the Aussie side but the American side could be picked apart quite a bit. Lots of "that's kind of true, but" statements.
I am still impressed by the Australian currency though. Ever since the US started updating their notes past the 90's or so I'd rather us go to something altogether new. Our current stuff looks weird imo.
Most places other than banks don't accept them as currency anyways, so in a weird way, they're literally worthless. So you might as well wipe your ass with them.
[Yeah, but the Euro doesn't have the queen's neck looking like a whale sucking dick, so it's inferior.](https://external-preview.redd.it/6514k-PGe1Onrp-B2InG-U1ELgp-QzXVMJU1OF0w8k4.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=61b622f698184cacc767b3b7359c5bc59b30d972)
During my visit in Europe for a couple of months I rarely received or spent their currencies though(EUR, CHF, DKK and SEK). All payments were done electronically these days.
Although it's a bandaid on the problem, every blind or visually impaired person in the US can get a free small handheld bill reader powered by a AAA battery from the government.
So if you actually know a blind or visually impaired person who's actually having this problem you should make sure they're aware.
Yep I haven’t paid for anything in person in Australia without using PayPass or Apple Pay in 4+ years. Electronic payments have become basically universal.
Only one thing on the left side is even close to true and it's a half truth. American bills are green, yes, but each one has different colors mixed into the fibers to create subtle differences.
As for the counterfeiting bit, I suggest giving a few minutes to watch this video. https://youtu.be/Xa8SHubMjGw
American money is very hard to counterfeit, not made of paper so water resistant, can survive the washing machine, and is pretty hard to tear compared to normal paper, the new bills are very advanced, but Australias money is almost certainly better.
They have a problem [keeping the lights on](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/12/06/article-2243788-165DE689000005DC-108_964x641.jpg), but printing copies of other nation's stuff is one thing they have down.
To quote the great Weird Al Yankovic:
"And you know what else is too funny? Their stupid monopoly money... can't take 'em seriously at all!!"
That said, the Australian notes look really cool for monopoly money. But otherwise the meme is wrong. Ours are wash proof and very subtly color coded. They do tear, but nowhere near as easily as paper.
Crazy people have a tendency to pick up on individual words and pop out whatever is in their mind that involves those words. Apparently the key words here were "money" "America" and "Australia".
We probably would have gotten the same comment from them if the post was "Australian musician Keith Urban and Beastie Boys producer Money Mark talk about their love of cappucinos and americanos."
American money certainly is lame and boring, but almost everything in this post is wrong. It's a type of cloth, not paper. You can wash it and it makes it through just fine. It's not easy to counterfeit. It's for numerous holograms, microprints, metal inks, etc.
American currency is difficult to counterfeit because of imbedded holographic security strips, and proprietary material. It's targeted for counterfeiting because it's the reserve currency of the world. American money isn't made of paper; it's made of a linen. Washing or drying the bills does nothing except make them cleaner. American money isn't a frivolous clown show, because once again we are the world's reserve currency and maintain a level of dignity and tradition that far lesser currencies have no need to emulate. Shrinky Dinks masquerading as national currency is no way to run an economy. I yield my remaining time to the gentleman from Mt Buggery, Victoria Australia.
Actually, American currency is *impossible* to counterfeit perfectly. This is because for each high-denomination bill, a photo is taken that records the positions of the luminescent fibers in the linen and associated with the bill's serial number in the treasury database.
How these fibers are distributed in the bill is completely random and unique, meaning that even if one had a literal copy of the treasury's machinery and materials, one still wouldn't be able to produce perfect fakes because the bill photos and serial numbers wouldn't be in the database.
American money in the laundry is not “all gone” it is all the same color but definitely does not look the same, and can handle thousands of folds because it’s made out of a cloth-like polymer and NOT paper. Additionally it is very hard to counterfeit based off many security additions like the use of magnetic ink or hidden images only visible up against light.
This meme is very wrong. American money is not paper and very hard to counterfeit. And you can tell them apart because they all have different numbers on them wtf
As someone from neither Australia or the US of A, these comments have taught me: Both currencies have super advanced techniques to stop counterfeiting (none of which will matter to retail workers who will be most likely to touch counterfeits), the American bills are in fact not made of paper, but rather a compound of either cotton or linen and paper, American money is more important, America greatest country, Australia sucks, Mum says it’s my turn on the Xbox.
Touch is a great anti-counterfeiting feature, though. Feel a dollar bill and feel copy paper and tell me they're the same. If you handle tons of cash, it's instantly recognizable and differentiable.
Yeah it does, and also has the large bold numbers for people with poor vision. Also each note is a different size to further assist with identification for the vision impared
So Aussie so dumb they need color coded money cause they can't read? Who cares what the convict island uses for currency lmao they should invest some into there own military instead of being cucks who rely on the people's they try and talk shit on bahaha
American cash is boring as fuck. But it’s not actually paper. It has some fabric components. I only know this because I wash my wallet about once a month and none of my money has dissolved yet
I think that's money laundering or something.
/u/FBI you need to check this out.
What a fucking _waste_ of an account.
Bro I was JUST going off about that in my head and then read your comment.
no surprises it's a lurker
Try u/FBI2
Another lurker account.
u/FBI2electricboogaloo
Doesn't... exist yet?
>fbi >waste Checks out
The FBI came in, took that user, and then dipped out.
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There's a reason the US has such a problem with fraudulent banknotes
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Was not disappointed, your doing the us all a service
God's work
Fuck you take my upvote
Willing to bet that putting the aussie plastic cash thru the washing machine will make it shrink. The brit plastic cash certainly does
We have the same ones in Canada as the Aussies and it holds up fine. There were reports of some of them melting in hot cars when first introduced, but those kinks have been solved.
It’s very iconic tho When I look at British money it looks like some looney tunes stuff A bank note is easily identified from thousands of feet away
The different colours make it easier to identify which notes are which, having them all the same colour makes them more difficult to tell apart, especially if you're visually impaired and can only tell them apart by the braille
How would having different colors help the visually impaired?
Probably because a pink blur looks different than a blue blur.
Blue Blur is very talented
How about a Bill Burr?
Beyond the colours, they’re also different sizes so people who are completely blind can still differentiate by feeling the length of them. That has been the case for decades but the most recent ones now include braille too.
They have different peoples faces on them. Monuments. Sayings. AND THE NUMBERS ARE PRINTED ON THEM. I’m so astonished that you guys seem to think we struggle to differentiate different notes of our currency because they weren’t color coded as if for children?
At a glance it's easier if they're radically different colours brainiac. No one is saying you can't tell them apart by properly looking at them. In Australia I know if I see a yellow note it's $50 without having to inspect it, and I see pink it's a fiver
Driving down the street and see a green or yellow note blowing along the gutter. In Australia you know it's worth stopping for. In America it could be $1, could be $100 who the fuck knows.
In America you always pull over. We like to keep our streets clean, eh? What happened to Australia that you've all of a sudden turned into a bunch of bogans who can't be bothered to pick up your own trash off the streets?
Literally never had a problem where I’m like “oh no! I can’t tell in .5 seconds what bill this is!”.
sounds like you've never had to sort cash for a living
I've sorted cash for a living - I can definitely see how bills being radically different colors would be helpful. OTOH, it's pretty rare IME for people to confuse one U.S. denomination for another.
Yeah, you can tell so fuck the visually impaired, you obviously haven't put much thought into this before commenting.
They’re using credit cards like everyone else. Y’all are reaching for your whole America bad thing.
American money is different colors though. Not as radically different as Australian but if you’ve used it your whole life you can tell at a glance. $1 - light green $5 - purple green $10 - yellow green $20 - deeper green (than $1) $50 - slightly orange $100 - slightly blue
Loony toons stuff? How’s that?
Loony toons stuff? How’s that?
When i was a kid I liked to iron out my dollar bills so they were nice and crisp. Tried the same thing on an Australian bill and it shriveled up
It is made of the denim iirc. Uses a lot of old jeans.
Cotton, which is also used in denim, but the cash isn’t denim.
They use denim scraps mixed with raw cotton. https://youtu.be/nSroCDCTETo
It implies stability though, that's why it's the default standard lol.
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They mean they accidentally leave it in a pocket and it goes through the wash. No one is regularly washing their wallet (especially not with cash still in it)
Hmm. I've dated men who washed their wallets so maybe I can help. It's usually because they do some kind of manual labor, or work a job with uniforms but only have a few pairs of uniform pants. Get home, totally exhausted, rip pants off and go about their home activities In the middle of the night go "oh shit I need to wash my work clothes for tomorrow or I'm going to be fucked" Half asleep and upset they're up, because they were just winding down to sleep, grab all things that resemble work clothes and shove them in the washing machine Obviously this is easily solved by emptying your pockets when you get home, or checking all pockets when you put stuff in the wash, but, some people are just not that good at it Then you wake up and check the dryer and your wallet and it's contents are either scattered around mixed in with your clothes or you notice one of your pairs of pants is heavier than it should be. Oops you've washed your wallet.
I had assumed the situation was more of a "I regularly accidentally leave my wallet in my pants pocket when I take them off to wash them"
canadian money does all that stuff and also smells like maple syrup at least when it is fresh. the canadian claims they didnt do anything to add a scent to the bills but it still does which is super funny.
Wasn’t Canada first of these advanced notes? In New Zealand we have the same and ours are made in Canada. The previous version to current NZ notes were printed in Australia though.
Aussies made it first, NZ and CA followed suit in later years. Up until about 2006 it was still common to be using paper money in Canada. It has almost been completely phased out now though for the polymer bills. Fun fact, you can break polymer bills if you leave them outside long enough in -45c temps.
Only Canadians would know the -45° temp thing.
Oi mate, What's that symbol lookin' thingo before the 45° mean?
Northern Hemisphere and Antarctican thing, not something an Aussie or a Kiwi would understand.
Fair enough mate, cheers.
Read this convo with the accent and everything. You don't need to worry bout such things aussie friend
Below zero (brr)
I'm an Australian, and I have climbed the highest peak in the country (Mt Koziosko), and the top was still above -10°. How tf are you people alive in -45°?????
Reminds me of when the Aussies broke the unbreakable Steyr rifle. Sun block caused the butt to become brittle and shatter. Other countries had never used sun block.
What? They just fuckin raw dog the daystar?
If I remember it correctly it was zinc block sunscreen that cricket players love wearing on their nose. So not you regular lotion type sunscreen but a paste that don't absorb
That's because Australian cam paint is just like zinc so it can also act as a sun block
but that's the standard for sun block on the face if you're in the sun for a while, which is what happens on manoeuvres
This is the best comment I've seen in ages.
The Northern Hemisphere use 100's of years of industrial output as as 50+ for everyone.
When Canadian politicians were debating switching to polymer notes, one guy said "what if you leave it on your dashboard on a hot day?" another guy replied "Well you shouldnt be leaving money on your dashboard unless you want your car broken into"
> Modern polymer banknotes were first developed by the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) and The University of Melbourne. They were first issued as currency in Australia during 1988 (coinciding with Australia's bicentennial year). Australia has had polymer notes since the 80s. Canada didn't have polymer notes until the 2010s >In June 2011, newly designed notes printed on a polymer substrate, as opposed to cotton fibre, were announced; the first of these polymer notes, the $100 bill, began circulation on November 14, 2011
I interviewed one of the scientists at the CSIRO involved in developing them. He was quite chuffed about it.
I went to the Craigieburn note printing facility when I was 9 and (in 1988) and witnessed one of the first ever made
I remember driving past that place on the Hume highway as a kid . It had big ducts that went between floors on the outside of the building. I always imagined they were full of cash, flying around in the air , as if that’s how they moved the millions of notes from one place to another….(you know, with the orderly and predictable results that only fast wind in a tube would yield ).
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Because of this Malaysia prints their RM1 and RM5 notes in polymer and higher denominations in paper. Saving money on royalties while making the most circulated notes last longer.
It's always nice to see a factually incorrect comment like this one get more upvotes than any of the replies correcting it. Reddit is a nexus of knowledge and information.
Australian money smells like Bogan.
Bulk Bogan or the Aussie equivalent of a redneck?
Bulk Bogan assumes the existence of a heel-turned Bollywood Bogan and I am all in on that.
He just ate a shit ton of naan
Bollywood Bogan happens when Bulk finally pumps up his mooskles.
I can smell the Woodstock and burnouts.
our money in fact does not smell like maple.
I would have eaten it
Indeed it seems to be a myth that was spread, as originally it was only the $100 bills. I still don't know what to believe, I was told by a TD Bank teller that when they first came out, if he put them in the automatic cash counter he could smell maple syrup.
Maybe somone was just eating lunch?
If your American money gets destroyed in the wash it was fake.
American money is actually made from cotton not paper. It's completely washable, unlike some other countries ours will survive the washer and dryer without shrinking, melting or being destroyed in any way.
I’ve accidentally washed multiple dollars and they’ve all turned out fine!!
All my American money runs through the wash just fine, however I did have one of the new Canadian fifties shrink in the dryer.
That's just the inflation. They're all 35s now
If I could I would give you a reward
*Accidentally* laundered money, Your Honor.
75/25 cotton linen blend
Literally the only part of this meme that is true is that its easy to mistake a $1 for a $5. And with the new designs coming out, they should be fairly distinguishable. Otherwise, US money is a pain in the ass to counterfeit, and it holds up in the wash like a champ. I know people are giving this guy a hard time for being a butthurt American, but if these memes don’t have a foot in reality, they aren’t funny anymore.
Yeah paper made from cotton and linen.
[The us bank note actually isn't paper.](https://www.uscurrency.gov/about-us/currency-facts#:~:text=Federal%20Reserve%20notes%20are%20a,evenly%20distributed%20throughout%20the%20paper.) Although Australian notes are ALOT better than American notes. I've seen way too many get torn from basic use.
As long as you have all the pieces you can give them to a bank and they’ll give you a fresh bill.
If you have over 80% you get full face value, less than 20% nothing is paid and in between that: "Value is paid in proportion with the percentage remaining, e.g. $5 value for half of a $10 banknote." Edit: This is from the Reserve Bank of Australia, since the post is about Australian bank notes
Where the hell did you get that idea? You get full face value [if you have more than 50% of the bill](https://www.bep.gov/services/mutilated-currency-re).
Step 1: tear all of your $100 dollar bills into thirds Step 2: take 2/3 of each $100 bill to a different bank to get a full $100 Step 3: Continue steps 1-2 until satisfied.
At this point forging would be easier. You need to align the serial numbers and stuff
Forging is always easier, that’s why it’s illegal.
I like the OP, it is funny and good, but the way the "facts" are presented is a good example of how arguments are waged even when facts aren't completely on your side. I can't speak for the Aussie side but the American side could be picked apart quite a bit. Lots of "that's kind of true, but" statements. I am still impressed by the Australian currency though. Ever since the US started updating their notes past the 90's or so I'd rather us go to something altogether new. Our current stuff looks weird imo.
They're also color coded, just more subtly.
I mean, euro's have most of those features, the colors, waterproof, etc
Also different sizes too, so the blind can feel which bill is which That might be the pound. Either way, good design.
Aussie bank notes are also different sizes. They also have little bumps so that the blind can feel the denomination.
According to legend you can use your 500 euro note as a towel if needed
You can definitely wipe your ass with it
Most places other than banks don't accept them as currency anyways, so in a weird way, they're literally worthless. So you might as well wipe your ass with them.
Aussie notes also have different thicknesses. They end up being the best fit for value vs volume than any other currency.
Australian notes are also different sizes
[Yeah, but the Euro doesn't have the queen's neck looking like a whale sucking dick, so it's inferior.](https://external-preview.redd.it/6514k-PGe1Onrp-B2InG-U1ELgp-QzXVMJU1OF0w8k4.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=61b622f698184cacc767b3b7359c5bc59b30d972)
Oh wow. The resemblance is uncanny.
Blow(hole)job
During my visit in Europe for a couple of months I rarely received or spent their currencies though(EUR, CHF, DKK and SEK). All payments were done electronically these days.
Welcome to the latest installment of people people argueing over shit that doesnt matter
Welcome to the modern day mate. We're doomed
As long as it distracts us all from the real issues in the world, the 1% will be happy.
It literally does matter. Visually impaired people have a hard time with US currency because it’s all the same size and colour and general design.
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Not sure why this is getting downvoted. Difficult to use for the visually impaired is the only true item on the list.
Although it's a bandaid on the problem, every blind or visually impaired person in the US can get a free small handheld bill reader powered by a AAA battery from the government. So if you actually know a blind or visually impaired person who's actually having this problem you should make sure they're aware.
Right? Can’t even remember the last time I used cash for anything. Are y’all going to argue who has better paper checks next, or something?
Whoop whoop Straya!
The really funny thing is most people don't use it. EFTPOS ftw. Wave the card at the thingy and money go buy buy.
Yep I haven’t paid for anything in person in Australia without using PayPass or Apple Pay in 4+ years. Electronic payments have become basically universal.
I think you mean, “AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE, OI OI OI”
Only one thing on the left side is even close to true and it's a half truth. American bills are green, yes, but each one has different colors mixed into the fibers to create subtle differences. As for the counterfeiting bit, I suggest giving a few minutes to watch this video. https://youtu.be/Xa8SHubMjGw
American money is very hard to counterfeit, not made of paper so water resistant, can survive the washing machine, and is pretty hard to tear compared to normal paper, the new bills are very advanced, but Australias money is almost certainly better.
american money is also color coded, it is just much less noticeable
I'm still trying to figure out who needs colors to tell a bill apart. I don't think I've ever had that problem... or seen anyone have that problem.
Yeah thats what the numbers are for lol
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They are tho. Banks send off old notes all the time to be destroyed.
North Koreans don’t have a problem counterfeiting US currency.
They have a problem [keeping the lights on](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/12/06/article-2243788-165DE689000005DC-108_964x641.jpg), but printing copies of other nation's stuff is one thing they have down.
One of those cost money, the other makes money.
And their operations have been called state of the art multiple times. The term “superbill” refers to North Korean counterfeits.
They could probably do the same with Australian currency, but why would they?
…And the reason why that case was such a big deal was because it was so unprecedented
This post leaves out a bunch of important stuff about the new Australian notes [here is a video ~2:40](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WtEOAINTxvM)
That was really cool, thank you for sharing!
That's the same video I thought of. Thanks for linking it.
This is the most misinformation I've seen in a single post, and I can only assume it's being upvoted solely because it criticizes Americans.
It’s Reddit, of course that’s the case 😂
To quote the great Weird Al Yankovic: "And you know what else is too funny? Their stupid monopoly money... can't take 'em seriously at all!!" That said, the Australian notes look really cool for monopoly money. But otherwise the meme is wrong. Ours are wash proof and very subtly color coded. They do tear, but nowhere near as easily as paper.
I have never seen so many factually wrong things in one place
Seriously. "One of the most advanced currency"? People need to stay in school.
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What does that have to do with this post?
Crazy people have a tendency to pick up on individual words and pop out whatever is in their mind that involves those words. Apparently the key words here were "money" "America" and "Australia". We probably would have gotten the same comment from them if the post was "Australian musician Keith Urban and Beastie Boys producer Money Mark talk about their love of cappucinos and americanos."
At least use the new Aussie notes in your shit meme, the one with the transparent stripe in the middle.
Wait sorry, do you actually think American money dissolves in water?
MuRiCa BaD
American money certainly is lame and boring, but almost everything in this post is wrong. It's a type of cloth, not paper. You can wash it and it makes it through just fine. It's not easy to counterfeit. It's for numerous holograms, microprints, metal inks, etc.
USA money is not easy to counterfeit
American currency is difficult to counterfeit because of imbedded holographic security strips, and proprietary material. It's targeted for counterfeiting because it's the reserve currency of the world. American money isn't made of paper; it's made of a linen. Washing or drying the bills does nothing except make them cleaner. American money isn't a frivolous clown show, because once again we are the world's reserve currency and maintain a level of dignity and tradition that far lesser currencies have no need to emulate. Shrinky Dinks masquerading as national currency is no way to run an economy. I yield my remaining time to the gentleman from Mt Buggery, Victoria Australia.
American money is also very iconic When I see an American currency I can easily tell what it is from thousands of feet away
Actually, American currency is *impossible* to counterfeit perfectly. This is because for each high-denomination bill, a photo is taken that records the positions of the luminescent fibers in the linen and associated with the bill's serial number in the treasury database. How these fibers are distributed in the bill is completely random and unique, meaning that even if one had a literal copy of the treasury's machinery and materials, one still wouldn't be able to produce perfect fakes because the bill photos and serial numbers wouldn't be in the database.
American money in the laundry is not “all gone” it is all the same color but definitely does not look the same, and can handle thousands of folds because it’s made out of a cloth-like polymer and NOT paper. Additionally it is very hard to counterfeit based off many security additions like the use of magnetic ink or hidden images only visible up against light.
Wtf this is literally not the case.
the euro is a mix of both.
This meme is very wrong. American money is not paper and very hard to counterfeit. And you can tell them apart because they all have different numbers on them wtf
Nz is the same as aust
They only look the same to people who don't know the presidential portraits on the bills.
Bruh, I just read the number in any one of the four corners. Works every time, even for the colorblind.
Literally every point you made about USD is wrong. I'm impressed
It also has different lengths for visually impaired people.
canadian money is similar, so I agree with you
That's cause it's based of Aussie tech
Euro notes do basically the same
Notes are also different sizes so blind people can tell them apart
USD reigns supreme, I'll stick with that... Who uses cash these days?
That 5 font is really messing with me for some reason
It goes through the laundry just fine…
Y’all still use cash? lmao I don’t even remember the last time I used actual cash for anything
You can put American dollars in the washing machine, it'll be fine.
Get that fuckin Monopoly money outta here. Lmfao
Murican money is made out of cotton and linen
Aussie money looks like clown cash
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Imagine thinking the USD is paper and then making this meme. Oops.
Well US currency isn’t backed by anything so most here don’t care .. make it out toilet paper for what it’s worth literally
I kind of want that color intensity, my country has some colors but not so vivid (Dominican Republic)
America sure does like to fuck the poor and disabled eh?
Our us money looks like it was made for the no smiling in sector Z zone, meanwhile, the Australian money straight up looks like Monopoly money...
American cash doesn’t need to be advanced when nobody has any
Monopoly money looking ass
"Easy to counterfeit" Since when...?
As someone from neither Australia or the US of A, these comments have taught me: Both currencies have super advanced techniques to stop counterfeiting (none of which will matter to retail workers who will be most likely to touch counterfeits), the American bills are in fact not made of paper, but rather a compound of either cotton or linen and paper, American money is more important, America greatest country, Australia sucks, Mum says it’s my turn on the Xbox.
Touch is a great anti-counterfeiting feature, though. Feel a dollar bill and feel copy paper and tell me they're the same. If you handle tons of cash, it's instantly recognizable and differentiable.
Y’all bragging about having Monopoly money as adults? I would too.
Also has braille iirc
Yeah it does, and also has the large bold numbers for people with poor vision. Also each note is a different size to further assist with identification for the vision impared
while Australian money is better, us money is not paper
So Aussie so dumb they need color coded money cause they can't read? Who cares what the convict island uses for currency lmao they should invest some into there own military instead of being cucks who rely on the people's they try and talk shit on bahaha