Though once you fold them you can never get that crease out. I recall when they were first released someone discovered you could shrink them in the oven like "shrink-it".
@@TheDonsChannel Yeah, the $50 is the counterfeiters note of choice, large enough denomination to be worth their time, but common enough that it doesn't warrant the scrutiny that a $100 will get. They did the $5 first as a durability test. As the most abused note, by letting into general circulation they could see if there was any flaw they hadn't found, without risking too much with the denomination.
Also, the size of the notes are all different- and the difference in the surface area of the each note corresponds directly to the difference in value of the note, which is pretty awesome. And because they’re different sizes, and bright colours, they were easy for those who are blind or vision impaired to tell apart, even before they put the Braille in the new ones.
Funny thing is that because Australia invented the process, the technology etc to do these notes the Australian mint is actually making currency for those countries who are adopting the polymer notes as well as getting paid royalties by those countries who have taken over production of their own notes.
@@TheDonsChannel A fun fact - that $10 released in 1988 was a commemorative limited edition "test". What they found was some of the ink rubbed off the plastic, as well as the gold hologram in the transparent window could be scraped off with a fingernail. That note was withdrawn 2 years later. When they started the proper release in 1992 with the $5, they'd perfected it.
One fact the video omitted is the fact that the technology behind the Australian dollar is copyrighted and other countries either, produce their polymer money under license or it is made for them in Australia.
I am always surprised when I hear about the UK and USA debating about whether there should be women on their currency. Notable women have been depicted on the Australian currency since it changed to decimal in 1966. The women on the current notes are a writer (Dame Mary Gilmore), a singer (Dame Nellie Melba), a member of parliament (Edith Cowan) and a woman who was sent to Australia at the age of 13 as a convict (she dressed up like a boy and stole a horse - not sure which offended people the most) and became a wealthu Sydney business owner (Mary Reiby). Oh, and The Queen. An interesting bunch as are the men on the flip sides. We carry history, art and poetry in our pockets.
one thing this video missed about the new currency is that it has raised dots embedded in them (one dot for $5, two dots for $10 etc), allowing the blind to more easily tell which note is which. You can see the two dots on the $10 for example at 5:24, theyre near the top left of the note
@@TheDonsChannel yeah .it was on the news and I saw the $50's come into my workplace over the front counter. they told people what to look out for. they have no name under the person's head on note (should have name) on the fifty and on top of the note jagged edges where they have been cut (when they separated the notes they made.)new currency will stop alot.
I used to work at the pokies (the slot machines most pubs have in a seperate area), and the quickest easiest way for us to detect counterfeit $100s and $50s was to scrunch it up in our hand, if it didn’t instantly spring back out, it was fake...
Re the wattle bush theme on the bank notes: All Australian wattles are actually types of acacia. When the first colonists arrived here, they found the acacias were ideal for an ancient style of building called "wattle and daub". Basically, thin posts were put in the ground and then acacia branches were fixed to them in a weaving pattern to form a wall. This called "wattling". The wall was then daubed with mud and left to dry. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wattle_and_daub
They are beautiful, intricate and have so much detail that's near impossible to counterfeit. A major plus is they can go through the wash, and you don't lose your money. Paper money sucked going through the wash.
Something they didn't mention is that they're all different colours so people with bad eyesight can tell them apart, *and* they're all different lengths so it's also easier to tell apart. The best part of plastic notes is that they're waterproof. So you can have them in your togs when you're swimming, and then use it to buy a sausage roll for brekkie.
The original 1988 $10 dollar notes are a collectors item now. They didn't stay in circulation very long because the images on them were a laminate rather than in the note so started to flake off with folding a scrunching. The US notes have a high cotton content because it makes them harder to tear and more resistant to water damage. Australia replaced $1 and $2 dollar notes with coins in the 1980's before the polymer were released. The $50 has the biggest counterfeiting problem and is the most dispensed from ATMs so it was a priority for upgrade.
I have kept a Scottish 10 Pound polymer note issued by the Royal Bank of Scotland 🏴 on my visit there 2 years ago, definitely polymer banknotes are difficult to counterfeit just like the Australian dollar banknote with its extremely complex security features making it totally difficult to counterfeit. BTW on the reverse of the AUD 20 note features the Rev. John Flynn the founder of the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia.
Edith Cowan on the $50 note had a railway station named after her pronounced cow anne. Its just past the station named after pommy prime minister of ww1 era Herbert Asquith.
The paper money had a thin lead strip placed between the printing press. Each paper note has one (reserve bank issue that is), but the first polymer notes could still be counterfeited using plastic shopping bags!!!
the best thing is you can go to the beach or accidentally throw them in a washing machine and they are still good as new unlike the paper ones that would be totaled.
The ironic thing is the Australian government wants to cease using cash all together. Go to a cashless society. To combat money laundering and fraud they say. But it's to help banks to really squeeze our balls.
The Bicentennial field test.. was for our banknotes future security enhancements.. every error and counterfeit money that's identified and returned added a new security device..
Fun fact: It was revealed a few months ago that the most recent batch of $50 notes had a spelling error! You could only see it through a magnifying glass. 46 million notes were printed. Yikes! 🤣🤣
@@snyparaustralis540 Yeah that's what they meant to do but yeah tell that to the commonwealth Bank. I use to clean these banks & all they did was throw them out into the bin. I lost my job over that as I wasn't going to break the law & throw the money out into a public bin out the front of the bank.
That's silly. Don't put your bank notes in the recycling bin - you can get 10c back when you return them with your bottles and cans. The guy at the recycling plant told me so.
All the notes eventually end up back in a bank. (Every time you spend cash at a store, they will eventually deposit it in the bank) Banks number how old the note is from the Serial Number and the oldest notes are sent back to the Mint and are recycled.
The old paper $100 bill was easy to photocopy, I did one once just to see what it would turn out like, it was scaringly easy. I ripped it up. Too dangerous.
I'm pretty sure they released the $50 not before the $20 because the 50 is/was the most counterfeited as it's the one most commonly gotten from ATMs which only have $20 and $50 notes in them so when withdrawing a lot of money it all comes out in $50s (the $100 note is rarely used and usually only really gotten from banks). Australian notes are also different lengths f with the $5 bring the shortest to the $100 being the longest as well as having the dimples on the new notes.
Another big bonus of polymer notes that isn't mentioned is they're water proof and rather hard to tear (unless there's already a tear in them) I've put notes through the wash, had them in my pocket at the pool and the beach and they come out fine
Yeah, I agree with the others, they made the 50 before the 20 because the 50 was counterfeit more because of the high value. At work, 50 get taken to the manager for a ' tear and light test' I'm glad you reacted to this.
Has anyone got a goldie? Is a common phrase at a bar, the $50 if you noticed is gold(ish) in colour, cash is king, I heard from an older guy the other night at a pub/club
The new series of aussie notes also have raised brail dots on them so the blind know what the value of the note they have is worth. Probably another first
Probably due to the texture difference. The new notes are lovely and smooth vs the old ones which had more of a git feel to them. Just an idea but interesting information that I just learned thanks.
On the new $50 it has a mistake in the quotation from Edith Cowan's maiden speech I stand here today in the unique position of being the "first woman in an Australian parliament. It is a great responsibilty" - it should say responsibility
Hi Don Daddy. Very interesting video with lots to learn. Only thing is that your voice is much quieter than the video so it makes it hard to hear what you're saying when the video is playing, too. Cheers!
I cashed my money box in in 1988 and got 15 × $10 polymer notes. They were recalled but the day I cashed in I secured 15 sequential notes . I don't know much they are worth now but it was a good investment
The original $5 was not inkfast, i remember my classmates wetting and rubbing the Queen's face off so the could go to the bank and swap it for the nice crisp revised note... lol
Unsure if you know or are just secretly based, but your intro with your name the 'o' with the diagonal arrow is a symbol of UK National Action (Victory to them).
Australian nicknames for the money are for a $50 is pineapple, $20 is tomato, $100 is green apple, not sure what the nicknames are for the 10 and 5 notes tho mate :)
Oh I’ve got 2 I’d never even looked at it. Just pulled them out of my purse now. Yes transparent strip. Wonder how old this vid is, I’ve never even noticed it. Shame on this Aussie. They really are beautiful up close. I know we’ve had plastic type ones for ages. You’ve educated me today
So what the hell are you doing sitting in the corning if you have no idea what this is all about and you didn't crate this in the first place? Just trying to make a penny or two?
Their most important feature is they can survive a trip in the washing machine if you forgot to empty your pockets.
Though once you fold them you can never get that crease out. I recall when they were first released someone discovered you could shrink them in the oven like "shrink-it".
They jumped the $20 bill as we had a large problem with counterfeit $50 bills and so they want to remove them from circulation
Thanks very much Brandon mate
@@TheDonsChannel Yeah, the $50 is the counterfeiters note of choice, large enough denomination to be worth their time, but common enough that it doesn't warrant the scrutiny that a $100 will get.
They did the $5 first as a durability test. As the most abused note, by letting into general circulation they could see if there was any flaw they hadn't found, without risking too much with the denomination.
i got the new $20 bill!!
@@itsmeruben1516Nice one!
It's only been out 8 days now. So that's pretty fresh off the mint.
@@itsmeruben1516 oh man... I want to get the new 20 note and frame it
Also, the size of the notes are all different- and the difference in the surface area of the each note corresponds directly to the difference in value of the note, which is pretty awesome.
And because they’re different sizes, and bright colours, they were easy for those who are blind or vision impaired to tell apart, even before they put the Braille in the new ones.
Funny thing is that because Australia invented the process, the technology etc to do these notes the Australian mint is actually making currency for those countries who are adopting the polymer notes as well as getting paid royalties by those countries who have taken over production of their own notes.
Rightly so. If its your idea you should be rewarded
@@TheDonsChannel A fun fact - that $10 released in 1988 was a commemorative limited edition "test". What they found was some of the ink rubbed off the plastic, as well as the gold hologram in the transparent window could be scraped off with a fingernail. That note was withdrawn 2 years later. When they started the proper release in 1992 with the $5, they'd perfected it.
One fact the video omitted is the fact that the technology behind the Australian dollar is copyrighted and other countries either, produce their polymer money under license or it is made for them in Australia.
the aussie bank note is the first in the world to have braille on it.
Dutch money has had it for a long time i think
@@bruceevennett955 The Dutch Guilder before the Euro has a braille on their banknotes introduced in the 90s
I am always surprised when I hear about the UK and USA debating about whether there should be women on their currency. Notable women have been depicted on the Australian currency since it changed to decimal in 1966. The women on the current notes are a writer (Dame Mary Gilmore), a singer (Dame Nellie Melba), a member of parliament (Edith Cowan) and a woman who was sent to Australia at the age of 13 as a convict (she dressed up like a boy and stole a horse - not sure which offended people the most) and became a wealthu Sydney business owner (Mary Reiby). Oh, and The Queen. An interesting bunch as are the men on the flip sides. We carry history, art and poetry in our pockets.
Don’t put yourself down! I love your enthusiasm 👍🥰
one thing this video missed about the new currency is that it has raised dots embedded in them (one dot for $5, two dots for $10 etc), allowing the blind to more easily tell which note is which. You can see the two dots on the $10 for example at 5:24, theyre near the top left of the note
That is amazing. They are incredibly detailed. A lot more goes into it than people would think.
Hey Dave, he mentions it at 5:12
They actually do mention it.
I’m Australian and just want to say that I love the videos you make about Australia, I just subscribed and keep up the cool content 👍
Thanks very much mate. I really appreciate it
the fifty was made first before the $20 because counterfeiters were catching up making good copies of the $50 polymer.
Really? They are never too far away from making fakes
@@TheDonsChannel yeah .it was on the news and I saw the $50's come into my workplace over the front counter. they told people what to look out for. they have no name under the person's head on note (should have name) on the fifty and on top of the note jagged edges where they have been cut (when they separated the notes they made.)new currency will stop alot.
Perth shops and casinos usually checked the fifty's just before the updated rollout just to probably hint how far it must have gotten
I used to work at the pokies (the slot machines most pubs have in a seperate area), and the quickest easiest way for us to detect counterfeit $100s and $50s was to scrunch it up in our hand, if it didn’t instantly spring back out, it was fake...
Re the wattle bush theme on the bank notes: All Australian wattles are actually types of acacia. When the first colonists arrived here, they found the acacias were ideal for an ancient style of building called "wattle and daub". Basically, thin posts were put in the ground and then acacia branches were fixed to them in a weaving pattern to form a wall. This called "wattling". The wall was then daubed with mud and left to dry.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wattle_and_daub
They are beautiful, intricate and have so much detail that's near impossible to counterfeit. A major plus is they can go through the wash, and you don't lose your money. Paper money sucked going through the wash.
Something they didn't mention is that they're all different colours so people with bad eyesight can tell them apart, *and* they're all different lengths so it's also easier to tell apart.
The best part of plastic notes is that they're waterproof. So you can have them in your togs when you're swimming, and then use it to buy a sausage roll for brekkie.
The original 1988 $10 dollar notes are a collectors item now. They didn't stay in circulation very long because the images on them were a laminate rather than in the note so started to flake off with folding a scrunching. The US notes have a high cotton content because it makes them harder to tear and more resistant to water damage. Australia replaced $1 and $2 dollar notes with coins in the 1980's before the polymer were released. The $50 has the biggest counterfeiting problem and is the most dispensed from ATMs so it was a priority for upgrade.
Ive actually received a few counterfeit 50$ notes in australia in my time glad they are making more security to them
I have kept a Scottish 10 Pound polymer note issued by the Royal Bank of Scotland 🏴 on my visit there 2 years ago, definitely polymer banknotes are difficult to counterfeit just like the Australian dollar banknote with its extremely complex security features making it totally difficult to counterfeit. BTW on the reverse of the AUD 20 note features the Rev. John Flynn the founder of the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia.
Edith Cowan on the $50 note had a railway station named after her pronounced cow anne. Its just past the station named after pommy prime minister of ww1 era Herbert Asquith.
The paper money had a thin lead strip placed between the printing press. Each paper note has one (reserve bank issue that is), but the first polymer notes could still be counterfeited using plastic shopping bags!!!
You can put them in your bathers when swimming, better than leaving with your clothing on the beach.
the best thing is you can go to the beach or accidentally throw them in a washing machine and they are still good as new unlike the paper ones that would be totaled.
The ironic thing is the Australian government wants to cease using cash all together. Go to a cashless society. To combat money laundering and fraud they say. But it's to help banks to really squeeze our balls.
Yeah of course, thats a good one
The earth is flat and no ones been to the moon
The Bicentennial field test..
was for our banknotes future security enhancements..
every error and counterfeit money that's identified and returned added a new security device..
Fun fact: It was revealed a few months ago that the most recent batch of $50 notes had a spelling error! You could only see it through a magnifying glass. 46 million notes were printed. Yikes! 🤣🤣
I think it was a perfect security feature if it had not been picked up.
While its great that Australia’s notes are recyclable, I’m not sure I know anyone putting their money into recycling bins
🤣🤣🤣. Very true mate
The mint recycle them when the banks send them back once they’re too damaged/dirty
@@snyparaustralis540 Yeah that's what they meant to do but yeah tell that to the commonwealth Bank. I use to clean these banks & all they did was throw them out into the bin. I lost my job over that as I wasn't going to break the law & throw the money out into a public bin out the front of the bank.
That's silly. Don't put your bank notes in the recycling bin - you can get 10c back when you return them with your bottles and cans.
The guy at the recycling plant told me so.
All the notes eventually end up back in a bank. (Every time you spend cash at a store, they will eventually deposit it in the bank) Banks number how old the note is from the Serial Number and the oldest notes are sent back to the Mint and are recycled.
Gotta be honest, I'm an Aussie, and had no bloody idea our notes were so relevant in the history of economics. Great video my friend!
It makes me strangely proud that our notes are leading the world.
The notes all have micro-writing all over them. You keep looking... you keep finding.
The $20bill came out on 9/10/19
Go mine
The old paper $100 bill was easy to photocopy, I did one once just to see what it would turn out like, it was scaringly easy. I ripped it up. Too dangerous.
I remember that the first 5 dollar bills could have the ink rubbed off on the Queens head.
Yeah mate loving the content, you’re a real true blue
Thanks Oliver mate. 🏴🇦🇺
thankyou Don ,very interesting ,keep up the good work.
I had no idea our new notes had that much detail. Makes me want to go find a UV light lol.
American notes are actually made out of paper. Paper is made from pressed cellulose fibres. Cotton is a fibre made of cellulose.
I'm pretty sure they released the $50 not before the $20 because the 50 is/was the most counterfeited as it's the one most commonly gotten from ATMs which only have $20 and $50 notes in them so when withdrawing a lot of money it all comes out in $50s (the $100 note is rarely used and usually only really gotten from banks). Australian notes are also different lengths f with the $5 bring the shortest to the $100 being the longest as well as having the dimples on the new notes.
Another big bonus of polymer notes that isn't mentioned is they're water proof and rather hard to tear (unless there's already a tear in them) I've put notes through the wash, had them in my pocket at the pool and the beach and they come out fine
I do rather love our bank notes haha
😎
This is why Australia is smarter 😂
Yeah, I agree with the others, they made the 50 before the 20 because the 50 was counterfeit more because of the high value.
At work, 50 get taken to the manager for a ' tear and light test'
I'm glad you reacted to this.
Has anyone got a goldie? Is a common phrase at a bar, the $50 if you noticed is gold(ish) in colour, cash is king, I heard from an older guy the other night at a pub/club
I’ve always heard $50 notes referred to as “pineapples”, not goldies.
most people for get the banks notes get longer and thicker the higher the face value is
I’m an Aussie and I wasnt even aware. Thanks
The new series of aussie notes also have raised brail dots on them so the blind know what the value of the note they have is worth. Probably another first
so when are you getting a trip to oz to watch an actual footy game :)
Hopefully we are coming 2021 mate
@@TheDonsChannel Come next year thats too long
A lot of the atms had trouble dispensing the notes and took over a year, to work the problem out.
Probably due to the texture difference. The new notes are lovely and smooth vs the old ones which had more of a git feel to them. Just an idea but interesting information that I just learned thanks.
Ok who out there is gong to send the Don some samples? i would but the misses would kill me, lol and i'm broke.
👍😁
On the new $50 it has a mistake in the quotation from Edith Cowan's maiden speech I stand here today in the unique position of being the "first woman in an Australian parliament. It is a great responsibilty" - it should say responsibility
They really are beautiful, and they come in useful when going to the Footy ;-)
I have one of those 10 dollar notes the first one
No one mentioned what happens when you put them in the oven. They shrink to a fifth of their size
Good on ya mate.
The new $20 even has three raised dots (like braille) to help vision impaired people accurately identify it.
They last 10 times stronger than paper money, and made new security measures to make it hard to counterfeit them
Skip the $20 note because someone tried to counterfeit the $50 and the found fakes in shopping centres that was spent by a customer
Only thing it didnt show how we also have $1 and $2 coins.....Glad u finally did this tho after I suggusted this video to u ages ago lol 🙂😁
I know you did. Footy came first at the time. We have plenty time now though. 😁
@@TheDonsChannel
Haha yep thats right 🙂🙂
Hi Don Daddy. Very interesting video with lots to learn. Only thing is that your voice is much quieter than the video so it makes it hard to hear what you're saying when the video is playing, too. Cheers!
I cashed my money box in in 1988 and got 15 × $10 polymer notes. They were recalled but the day I cashed in I secured 15 sequential notes . I don't know much they are worth now but it was a good investment
Much prefer the design of the first tenner
Only problem is we cannot fold them like paper notes. Other than that, I like them. At least they survive accidental laundry washes🤗
fun fact every picture is actually microprint
G'day mate. Sorry, long time, no see. Your'e the kind of bloke i'd like to have a beer wif, down to earf.
Thanks very much mate
The original $5 was not inkfast, i remember my classmates wetting and rubbing the Queen's face off so the could go to the bank and swap it for the nice crisp revised note... lol
Microwavable too..shrunk them more than %50
why bag using pesticide when its not known how its used .
Unsure if you know or are just secretly based, but your intro with your name the 'o' with the diagonal arrow is a symbol of UK National Action (Victory to them).
Never heard of them
Australian nicknames for the money are for a $50 is pineapple, $20 is tomato, $100 is green apple, not sure what the nicknames are for the 10 and 5 notes tho mate :)
They wash very well but do not iron them. Advice from one who found a mess in a jeans pocket.
🤣🤣
I have an emergency $100 bill folded up in my wallet.
Oh I’ve got 2 I’d never even looked at it. Just pulled them out of my purse now. Yes transparent strip. Wonder how old this vid is, I’ve never even noticed it. Shame on this Aussie. They really are beautiful up close. I know we’ve had plastic type ones for ages.
You’ve educated me today
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takes a country of counterfeiters to make counterfeit-proof money,lol
Now, now, that was a long time ago 😎
Maddy G back then we just reverse counterfeited some bread
Noobmaster 69
And they sent us from a smog filled city to the most beautiful place on earth in my opinion
Also 10/10 name
If only we could defeat scammers.
Yesss I love our money
Hello
I don't get to see that many hundreds.
One day..............................................one day
So what the hell are you doing sitting in the corning if you have no idea what this is all about and you didn't crate this in the first place? Just trying to make a penny or two?
Mate the rest of the world is going to get jealous of how much attention you give us lol..... but I'm guessing the analytics says it is a wise move?
🤣🤣🤣. A lot of requests for these videos. My pleasure to do them and learn as much as I can.
Australian dollar is not very strong but it’s okay.
But it is a safe currency
OMG so hard to understand this man speaking.
Better for doing coke too
Noice