The Best Banknote in the World!
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Solomon, D., & Spurling, T. (2014). The Plastic Banknote: From Concept to Reality. CSIRO PUBLISHING. books.google.com.au/books?id=...
Prime, E. L., & Solomon, D. H. (2010). Australia’s plastic banknotes: fighting counterfeit currency. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 49(22), 3726-3736. www.academia.edu/download/4511...
Hardwick, B., Jackson, W., Wilson, G., & Mau, A. W. (2001). Advanced materials for banknote applications. Advanced Materials, 13(12‐13), 980-984. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10...
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62e528761d0685343e1c-f3d1b99a... counterfeiting usd aud
Just imagine if the Australian dollar ended up being called boomer
Hi how to you meet you~~~
Hi! How do you do? glad to meet to you~
okay dollar
Prime Minister Menzies a real fan of the Monarchy wanted it called the Royal & a coin called the Crown. I was very young at the time.but all hell broke loose & we goT the dollar & cent.
Sucks how the CSIRO doesn't get enough funding nowadays.
Ah, just pin it on the Muslims. That seems to be the cool thing to do.
wtf?
I think that was from Abbott's doing. He did not believe science was a thing, he thought god makes things work.
thanks for that helpful comment, I hope it helped you feel like a big man
Really!HAHA all they have done is screw nature to the best of their ability!
I'm australian, but I would rather a £5 note because it is worth around 8.5 AUD
Lol yep
I'm Australian but I would rather have a $100 note because it over 10 times a £5. But it's just me.
Abu you are very dumb. Like a rock or a cow.
Abu Taher that's pretty racist, also a higher currency value doesn't mean mc=uch
Lucedoke give me your address and I'll send you a $ 5 USD.
I have found that "the best banknote in the world" is the one in my hand. If you want your banknote to also "be the best" you can send it to me and I will also put it in my hand.
Hi! How do you do? glad to meet to you~
Can we get a petition for that
Rename our currency to dollarydoos
Already done
Vangaurd what about dollar MC dollarface?
+Felds Liscia LOL!!!!!! We all know it's REAL name, don't we!?
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That's a bloody outrage it is!
The queen of England and the queen of Australia look quite similar. Are they sisters or something?
kanjitard ...Nice one
Wait. Are they?
SupaEMT134 they're the same person
kanjitard they have the same hairdresser
Of course they look similar! The Queen of the *United Kingdom* (not just England!) is also Queen of Australia. And Queen of Canada. And New Zealand. And many other places. So no, they're not sisters. They're the *same person*.
But does it have a Headphone Jack?
lol does the iphone x have one or any recent i phone ?? on par
The mint is working on it, and bluetooth for that record playing bit.
David Edwards... Inspiring words ya got there
Yeah as an Australian it would really help to have a headphone plug on my money, but, the world just doesn't work like that. :p
AramZie haha
When those new $5 notes were implemented my friend got refused a ticket by a bus driver who didn't believe the note was real
Hi! How to you meet you~~~^^
I ent to the Soviet Union in 1989 (yes it was still the USSR). In hotels and certain shops catering for tourists you could use foreign currency. I had one of the first polymer $10 notes, and they refused to accept it. Luckily I had paper Australian notes as well which they were happy to accept.
Unfortunately, I have a constant tremor in my hands so this would be difficult.
Also saying, cash forgers are the best students. They make the best *notes*
"they make the best notes" 👏👏👏
What did the German bank robber say when asked their name?
Ich heist Die Bank.
Just ordered the microscope. € 9,99
looks really useful for checking the resin on weed
Marvel at that dense THC crystal forest.
Totally wrong the coolest banknote in the world is the 100.000.000.000.000.000.000 Dollar from Zimbabwe!
100 trillion dollars?
And I thought I was well-off with my billion-mark notes from Weimar.
@@erkinalp Worth 0.40 $ though. But it is the coolest one!
Hi how to you meet you~~~
coolest Australian bank note in the world....?
It boggles my mind that the US still uses mono-coloured paper money.
The designs over the last few years have added shading of different color for the different denominations, we also have the tiny print for whatever denomination it is too.
TheGreatR3dBeard It's still in the dark ages when it comes to what other countries are doing, which is why US money is among the easiest to counterfeit, from what I gather.
The US uses computer chips
Yea wonder why sooooo many people try re printing American notes and almost none copy Australian
"Greatest Country"
Didn't say anything about the braille, which is the best part about the new note
ALC0LITE the whole things pretty cool
Agree.
When Ray Charles who is blind was paid in the early days, he demanded that he be paid in $1 banknotes.
In a word, yes.
Agree! I really thought she would mention that somewhere!!
I didn't know clip-on microscope lenses were a thing! I totally want one!
So do I!
I have no idea what I'd use it for but it still sounds so cool!
Hey Vanessa, where can we pick up an awesome lens like that?
Tell US!.....Please :)
amzn.to/2eX9Scr that's where she got hers.
As a patriotic but open-minded Brit, I was very thankful to the scientific development of you Aussies for conceptualising the plastic banknote, and ever moreso for making it a reality, especially given how much time I have spent working around money, handling cash and coming across many forged banknotes (including one or two rare realistic ones).
And wifi, the electric drill, black boxes, spray skin transfusions, pacemakers, google maps technically, penicillin application, cochlear implants, permaculture and ultrasounds just to name a few
Australians: hey US our banknotes can play records.
US: You still use cash?
You missed an opportunity to exclaim: "That's not a polymer bank note, *this* is a polymer bank note" when comparing them.
Ooh i see you've played polymer banknote before mate
I just wanted to emphasise that the polymer banknotes ACTUALLY PLAY THE MUSIC ALL BY THEMSELVES. No amplifiers, no speakers, just beautiful physics. This was a really fun episode to make - thank you for watching! 💸
I am curious-- where did you get that microscope lens?
Nice man
Hey! I got it on Amazon - amzn.to/2eX9Scr it was $11 👯
Thanks for this! I'll bring a European note to my parent's place this Thanksgiving. It should make for a fun distraction!
It's so great when you actually make something Aussie, Nessie
Oh yeah? Canadian polymer notes smell like maple syrup, back bacon and beer!
Really, then you should "hoser" them down. To clean them. Geddit? Because hoser... oh forget it. It was funnier in my head.
Funny you say that, there are actually people here (Canada) who claim the new bills do smell like maple syrup, I never could but there are some. Maybe a genetic thing like asparagus and pee.
ew, ew, and ew.
One thing. The bills have be fresh, brand new to be exact. After they've spent a couple of minutes marinating inside Geordie's back pocket they tend to smell a little more like a methane refinery next to a manure factory.
ckom0007.
That's a myth. One of the advantages of the polymer is that it's non porous, and can not be impregnated with, or absorb, any scents or odours!
Google, scented bank note myth.
In come the dollars, in come the cents,
To replace the pounds and the shillings and the cents,
Be prepared folks when the coins begin to mix,
On the 14th February 1966!
Clink go the cents, folks, clink, clink, clink,
Changeover day is closer than you think,
Learn the values of the coins and the way that they appear,
And things will be much smoother once the decimal point is here!
*To replace the pounds and the shillings and the pence.
m0rthaus oh rip sorry
"To replace the pounds and the shillings and the cents,"
No!
To replace the pounds and the shillings and the pence,
000 Response
justwantahover oh rip sorry
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From Canada here. I had no idea these originated in Australia! There was much grumbling when we switched over but personally I love them. They stay nice much longer and look cool too. Thanks!
Thanks.......
Read the book "The Plastic Banknote From Concept To Reality" by David Solomon and Tom Spurling. David Solomon is a polymer chemist who came up with a breakthrough to thwart counterfeiting of banknotes along with co author Tom Spurling an Australian Government scientist that made it a reality after 20 years of extensive research and development.
if you shine a laser pointer through the transparent bit in a £5 note
it projects our constellation onto a wall pretty cool huh
ok
Wow lemme try it
Be sure to look straight at the note from the other side to see them in full HD and with the 3D effect.
They removed this feature from the new notes, I think the Canadian's copied it though and it should still work.
British banknotes are the best I've seen. Such an elegant design
The _original_ paper Aussie $10 note had a picture of Francis Greenway on it - and Francis Greenway was a *convicted forger* set to Australia from England during the colonial era.
How many countries honor a convicted forger on their banknotes? 😂😂😂😂
Hi! How to you meet you~~~
The CSIRO is actually one of the leading providers of new technology in the world. With inventions like Wi-fi to the Black Box, it's not hard to see why.
the free market doesn't have the resources, equipment or funding for innovations like these. CSIRO isn't necessarily stopping anyone from doing anything anyway. Your point is invalid
Moeyz69 You should have seen the coins made by the free market in the 17th and 18th centuries in comparison to government currencies. Before governments took them over the free market was always applying the best technology and making currencies which were impossible to replicate (at their time) by counterfitters. Then look at bitcoin. That the technology which went inti that is being used by banks and governments etc to make their transactions and businesses more secure
nicosmind3 However the free market is also prone to monopoly, corruption and exploitation of an innovation by barring members of the population behind an unnecessary paywall (see the AIDS medication price gouge). In this specific case it also makes sense as it's the official currency of the same country supporting that research institute. Any technology would be best kept proprietary otherwise it would cancel out the whole point of creating counter-fraud elements in the first place.
@auskott
If the CSIRO is such a waste of money, why have they been able to invent some of the most widely used technology today before the free market managed to?
In a free-market you can also sell slaves, TOW missile launchers and drugs, so of course when everything and everyone is for sale the market is bigger.
My question is, what prompted the first person to discover the note's ability to play music to try it out in the first place?
ArchOfWinter it's obvious you can get birthday cards that play records etc....
WHAAAAA?! Mind Blown!
ArchOfWinter I was doing it in the 70s when I was 5yo. Just cutting a piece of paper with an acute angle and use it as a needle to ear the sound. As usual, the adults reaction was: what's you are doing? if you want to ear music simply use the needle. :-)
In fact you can use everything you want, it must have a pointy part to put on the record and some flat site that vibrate to amplify the sound, for example, a needle put into a match box. You put the needle on the record and the box is the amplifier (but attention, while the paper does nothing to the record, a metallic needle can damage it).
probably it's pointy corners combined with it'S "wobblyness"
Probably someone realized how sharp and pointy the end was, and trying it was a natural experiment.
Braincraft, one of the best reasons to hit the subscribe button. This channel never disappoints. Aussie, aussie, aussie.
Thanks for making the video on this! I know the guy who started the petition for that note and see him aroudn all the time!
During the first week of the release of the new £5 note my friends and I wanted them so bad and were so happy to get them in change at the shops. One of my friends actually went to the bank and requested them and let us swap our normal £5 notes for them when he was back. Such a bro.
you should see the new Indian notes, they look like a 5 year old designed them.
Galactro so shit man. I feel sorry for us
Maybe they did? lol
Or worse. Design by committee!
ha ha ha! ROFL! that's exactly what I felt.
Thats what you get when the graphic designers are selected through reservations.
+Eric Cartman he's talking about Indians from India...not native Americans. Dont insult people's intelligence if youre not very smart yourself.
Freaked me out for a bit seeing the queen and you saying dollars. I honestly thought maybe I'd slipped into another dimension. Never realised it was just australia.
The Queen is only on the 5 dollar note and the back of the coins and that's it she's not on the 10 20 50 or 100 dollar notes
New to your channel. I'm so glad to see this video and know that you're an Australian too!
When I got handed a £5 note in a shop I thought they was handing me monopoly money
They were - its call the Fiat Currency scam
What monopoly do you play?
"they was" Found the southern american boys.
All fiat currencies are monopoly money Bitcoins and Blockchain proof this
ROFL yeah it gets a bit like that great observation
Are we not gonna talk about the new braille indents for blind people
Love love love your show. Just wondering where in the world you get a clip-on microscope? That's the coolest ever!
Proud to be Aussie
oi oi oi
Shoulda called 'em Boomers, just to be different & more Aussie.
As an Australian, I'm glad that we didn't call them that. I'd feel like an idiot every time I said it.
+L. Lawless remember, if Menzies got his way, it would have been called the Royal...
5:30 You talking about your clip-on microscope? lmao
bwahah...there was a question about the properties of a british banknote at a german quizshow on tv today....i immadetly answered the question right, because i saw your video a few days ago. my parents where stunned. thank you! it so much fun watching your videos.
Neat! : I, a Yank who's never been to Australia, used to be able to recite 'The Man from Snowy River' and several other A.B. (Banjo) Patterson poems from memory
But do your banknotes smell like Maple? I think Canada wins this battle.
Sadly, that's a myth.
Yea so Maple has bad b/o.
Happily it isn't. All my 5$ smell like maple syrup
David Enrique the $5 bill in my wallet disagrees
DJcMugaba +amerinadian
I'm currently living in Canada, and not a single one of my bills has any smell of maple syrup whatsoever. Lots of people have tested this idea and the empirical data shows that any smell you detect is either because of random chance (someone with dirty syrupy fingers handled it last) or because of the placebo effect. Canadian officials have also come out and confirmed that there is absolutely no maple syrup scent added to the bank notes. A simple google search will show this.
So yes, it IS a myth. Some of the bills in your own wallet might smell like syrup to you, but that's either because someone with dirty fingers touched the bills before or because you EXPECT them to smell like that. It just goes to show how strong the power of suggestion is.
An Australian science channel in the same vein as SciShow?! SUBSCRIBED!!
I received this note and I love LOVE Love it. Thank you for pointing me in the direction to get this!
Fun fact! in Australia it costs two record players to buy one $5 note. That's why dollar notes are named after musical notes.
Shame we didn't go with ming.
dollary-doo would have been better
900 DOLLARYDOOS?!
Google search 'USD to dollaridoos'. It actually brings up the USD to AUD converter, which is kinda cool.
Ah, a truly merciless currency
Baileaf Aw, using google.co.uk it does it to pounds. I'm guessing that if it doesn't know it defaults to the home currency and you were on google.com.au.
Can I has 900 dollarydoos?
No
Maybe
GOOD NEWS, EVERYONE! The professor says I can has 900 dollarydoos for my doomsday device.
Probably maybe yes.
rurutu M the only thing you can buy with dollarydoos is Donald trump which if all these protesters have taught me anything is the same thing as a doomsday device.
which clip on microscope is that and do amazon sell them ??
"Dollarydoo" OK, I'm in stitches! That's just funny!
Why do u hold the note against the rotation instead along?
Where can I get one of those smartphone "eye-loop's"? That's awesome! I checked out the micro print on an American dollar in school under a microscope. That security printing technique is old but incredible technology.
Nice i like the Australian map inthe backround !!! From what year is it seem very olp also has a missing piece on the bottom right corner
Where can I find a microscopic clip on lens like yours?
And US is stuck with rubbish paper note ;_;
Verniy _. No, they get to keep the good paper notes.
I bet that the USA mint will say "boo hoo it would be sooo expensive to change from old paper dollars to the new polymer currency that the whole world is using" just like they can't change to the metric system even when the rest of the civilized world has done it a long ago. How come "everything is sooo expensive to do" for the USA but all other countries (which are supposed to be 'poorer') can do it? The USA simply doesn't want to "be like the others", that's all. The usual American arrogance.
SomeoneCommenting bullshit
US bank notes are more counterfeit proof than many realize. We invented microprinting on notes, for example. Adn they are not made of paper, they are made primarily of cotton.
The United States Mint does not make bank notes, so I doubt they'd say anything.
"The air vibrates giving us the sensation of sound." That's what sound is.
I disagree, sound is our brain's interpretation of those vibrations.
Thank you for making me feel old. :) I was in the 5th grade when we changed from pounds to dollars. Just a couple of small points. All the paper Australian currency you showed was not the first type issued. The first had " Commonwealth of Australia" printed at the top not " Australia". That changed happened in 1972. Also the first polymer $10 to be issued had the prefix AA but it was recalled and destroyed because the hologram could be rubbed off between finger and thumb in about 30 seconds. The first series for general issue has the prefix AB. The AA $10 notes with hologram intact are quite valuable.
the problem is with the transparent section going from top to bottom as thats all of the ware will be. so it will eventually break in half.
Polymer banknotes is another great Australian invention.
Australia - another not so great British invention.
Has anyone mentioned the braille dot on the note for blind people to tell the currency?
Is it bad that if I try excruciatingly hard I can read what is on the notes?
Would it work better as a record needle if you rolled it up into a cone?
of course the big question is, what power is the microscope you carry with you?
Dollarydoos. Your a bloody legend mate
You forgot to mention that Bob Menzies wanted to call Australia's "new" currency "The Royal" back in the day. Still cracks me up! :- )
"these are tear-able" I see what you did there
Great video. I hate to be picky, but the 1$ banknote example you show did not go into production until 1974. The original banknotes had "Commonwealth Of Australia" as their title.
Unless the dollareedoo or the pound note smells like maple syrup, Canada has you both beat. :)
Well thanks a lot dude. Now I have a craving for pancakes. Marvellous.
Since they are all made of the same material and in roughly the same way they will have the same smell, it's just a difference between newer notes having the smell and older notes don't.
the rumor is that the hundos have the smell (hundred dollar bills). Makes sense because they're also that colour.
Weird. New Zealand banknotes are made in Canada and when they're new, they smell like puke. I don't mean they smell generally bad, I mean they legitimately smell like puke.
Ever hear the thing about all bank noted have like trace amounts of drugs on them. All Canadian notes have noticeable amounts of maple syrup on them.
its worth noting that the five pound note was not changed to polymer due to forgery, it was for practicality the old paper notes (fives) were always dog-eared, ripped and falling apart, unless it came from the bank you never saw a nice crisp note, and so they needed replacing more often than they should have, being harder to forge was just a bonus.
Call me when the currency notes can sing the national anthem as a party trick.
Ming? ha, that would have been genius.
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Awesome video. 💯💶
Thanks for the info and history lesson. I had never heard of the story of those forgers. 🤔
In Italy, as in the whole Europe, we're stuck with those paper-cotton-mesh Euros, we probably should switch too ;)
Grizzly (IBearAVlog) Not the whole Europe, we also got the Swedish (and possibly danish and norwegian, can't remember) Krona!
In Europe I definitely mean "The Euro zone", indeed. Technically even UK is still (before formalizing brexit) in EU, but still has the Pound ;)
Grizzly (IBearAVlog) Actually even after Brexit they'll still be in Europe won't they? Just not in the European Union? Sorry for nitpicking, you made good points and I wish I wasn't so annoying xD
Still I want polymer banknotes :D ahahah
Grizzly (IBearAVlog) So do I xD
This was so so cool Vanessa!
ALSO I NEED A POCKET MICROSCOPE OMG
amzn.to/2eX9Scr that's where she got hers.
The best thing about "dollerydoos" is that you can put them in the velcro pocket on your board shorts when you go for a surf and they're good to go at lunch time. You could say they were made for Australian conditions.
I just found you. Bloody awesome!
You also bounce a lot when you talk. Also bloody awesome!
love what you doing. keep up the good work
whenever I watch any Australian I just remember @Geography_Now's Australia episode
we love their accent, we love their accent and we love their accent
I love my accent too
WOW - our money IS worth something .Thanks for sharing - I'm gunna go get a whole lota Gramaphone needles right NOW
in theory this note is great but i have had some problems with automatic machines and the new notes in the uk. some have been bent badly enough that the machine refuses to accept it as what it is.
I still get excited every time we get one of the new $5 notes. I didn't know that it could be used as a record needle, though. Thanks for enlightening me. :)
Brain Crafted.
The Canadian banknotes have a diffraction window inside one of the maple leafs. When you shine a laser pointer through the center of the leaf, it will project the banknote's denomination. Many Canadians are not aware of this cool security feature.
Get it together, America.
The us greenback has just as many anti-forgery tricks as these notes. It's just because they insist on having them green, they look at first glance the same as the old notes.
@Aussie at least ours can survive a little bit of rain :P
I have a one dollar bill and as far as I can tell the only antiforgery tricks are in the printing. Theres no hologram, no metal strip impregnated in the paper etc
Probably because no one bothers to forge $1 bills. It'd cost more than the bill is worth. Take a look at $10 or larger note.
Danny Beeson no but people do bleach them and forge 20/50/100's on the paper
In Brazil, about 5 years ago, we had a R$10 note that was also plastic. But it got taken away from circulation for some reason :/
WeGameEXP maybe because to was to hard to counterfeit and too easy to trace.
WeGameEXP because the paint faded easily and they got all warped and creased permanently in all the wrong places.
They started it in the year 2000, in commemoration of the 500 years of Cabral's fleet arrival. Those were some good-looking notes, fascinating for a child like me at the time. But they did faded easily as hell...
My country issued plastic money 14 years ago. Initially people were amused but later after color of the notes started fading away, everybody did not like the plastic money.
I can read the fine print on those without a microscope. The fivers that come out in the late 90s early 00’s had the national anthem on them.
Also, take any Aussie note and mate the ends up to its opposite, either parallel edges on either side. The patterns match up exactly.
The new Norwegian notes that'll start rolling out next year look like monopoly money
where oh where did you get that micro microscope? i want one
+Custom Mod I think you can get them at Kmart in the kids science toy section. Also Online.
Custom Mod is just a magnifying glass for phone camera
That's it, starting a petition to change the AUS Dollar to "Dollarydoo"... Who's in?
Please, no. That is a horrible name.
There was already one on change.org a while ago, pretty sure it received over a million signatures, but to no avail
What brand or model is your microscope?
That is admittedly one cool looking bank note!
also they have brail like raised dots to assist the blind determine the currency.
no they don't, blind people tell the difference in notes from what size they are.
The raised bump was specifically introduced into the $5 Australian Note for blind people.
It's a new feature in it.
well I certainly haven't felt it on the new note, next time I get one at work I'll have a closer look lol
I work with a blind man at the office and he's just told me about that braille dots a few days ago.
The new $10 note looks even better.
you didn't mention that they now have added braille type riased dots on the polymer notes in Australia.
Before American Banknote Company was out of business there was the Bradek and Tyvek notes. Australian 1988 $10 Is the first note mass issued I believe as ABC notes of plastic are extremely rare.
Can you also talk about the braille that is going to be put on notes in Australia soon? And is already on Canadian notes.
Braille will be put on the bills soon. - there, good enough?
A little known trick you can do with the $50 Australian note, is that if you burn a whole stack of them in bags of paper and flower you get this cool pink flame for a few secs
Sam great! when I have a spare $3000 to habd then i'll give your experiment a try.
Better yet give me the money and I'll make you something that creates a cool pink flame for a few secs.
Nick Magee - Brown k
H-how would you know this?
Why would you do this? ☹
The new Australian 10 dollar note is really pretty!!
Is the new banknote, in part, a response to counterfeit or just a new design?
that papercut tho😂
*BOPP cut
Never been cut by an Aussie note, but Canadian cash is made out of the same stuff, and that shit will cut your fucking finger off if you're not careful!
It's plastic you upside-down ginger! You should know it's rude to be standing on the ceiling when someone is talking to you!