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- Thank you for watching me, a humble American, react to Secrets of the Australian Dollar. This was so interesting! Subscribe for more Aussie reactions!
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Honestly, as an Australian, I haven't used cash for years, it's all just tap & go, the notes are very pretty & their major selling point is they can make it through the wash intact. Something you did not mention is that the newest Australian bank notes have brail markings on them so a blind person could spot a fake easier than a sighted person.
tap and go is lazy
Cash is king, until they refuse COVID ridden cash(I've seen it at a council office)
@@glennboyd939 I once lost my bank card and had a gig to go too, rooms booked all that stuff, So I had to take a bunch of Cash, anyways get to this event and I walk over to the Bar and they say, We're really sorry but.. were not accepting cash, Card Only sorry... so I had to have a friend pay for me while I payed them cash instead... sure there was a work around, but it seems digital money now is king from that experience
I spent a month in Aus and touched cash maybe ... twice?
@@Billygoatsgrruff dumbest comment on the internet
As an Aussie. I never really thought about how cool the money looks. It was just "normal" but seeing other currencies with America for example.. really shows just how different money can br. And how pretty it is in Australia. I had thought the whole world did this similarly
i was thinking this too
@Rodney 1984 wifi is still my favourite
SAME
Me too I never realised how unique our notes are
Australians are brilliant in many ways without getting recognition until recent years. I love our notes in Australia 💜🇦🇺
As an Australian I can confirm to you that our notes are all the same height, just different lengths, so they fit into your wallet perfectly. I use cash all the time, use it or lose it they say, and we don't want to lose it, because you'll never get it back, and I don't think people really understand what that means. I enjoy watching your videos, and I'm glad that you're getting the hang of pronouncing Emu correctly, you're always good for a laugh...
Actually the bank notes are of different lengths to help vision impaired people tell the difference, along with a few other measures.
Actually the notes are different heights as well as lengths, slightly!
I haven't used cash in years, just tap my phone for everything!!
Green backers are bigger
Yes!! Keep cash flowing, we don’t wanna lose that.
As an Australian here is some information to answer some of your questions and a few more facts.
The notes are the same width but difference lengths. This means when you stack them together, each not can be picked and easily separated.
The braille was actually requested by a visually impaired teen who wrote to the parliament. And the idea sparked the new designs.
The emu is not on any of the notes as it is already always on the Australian Emblem (along with the kangaroo).
There is also micro prints in some parts of the portraits. And are even smaller than the ones in the clear panel.
Just after their introduction an Australian tourist in the Netherlands was questioned when he tried to exchange some at an airport. The man behind him joined the conversation as he was the Chairman of the Australian Reserve Bank and confirmed the signature printed on the note was his. He was on his way home after attending a meeting in The Netherlands of the heads of Western nations Nation banks.
That’s a cool story lol. “Um actually, I designed this note, it’s legit.”
@@___DRIP___ Except that it was developed by the CSIRO who I believe have a patent on polymer notes.
That is very cool story!
LOL, That's pretty solid backup :D
Similar thing happened about 10 years ago with the fellow who's signature was on Papua New Guinea bank notes. At an Australian airport. He was asked for his ID like anyone else..... and he presented money with his photo on it, and his signature. He was told to get his passport or else.......
I’m Australian. When I worked in a bar we’d get counterfeit currency decently often and it was incredibly obvious from the weight, thickness, and the feel between the fingers alone. I never saw a counterfeit bill that got the strip or the hologram right, however there were some $20s that came through and were extremely close that we had to hold them up to the light to see the differences.
It’s crazy to me that George Floyd was killed over using a counterfeit note up there in the US. We would just give them back to the customer and tell them it was counterfeit. Most of the time these are in circulation quite easily and people don’t realise because they’re not used to handling cash, you can’t assume everyone is malicious when using them either. I’ve been handed counterfeit currency as change in the past and had to request another note back when I still used cash. It’s less common in australia sure but it still happens!
Maybe you have seen them but they were so good you never realised.😄
I actually listened to a lot of the trial of Derek Chauvin. Even the prosecutor's own witnesses said if they hadn't seen the video they would have ruled it an accidental death because of either phentanyl overdose, or because of one of his 2 heart conditions. The coroner who performed the autopsy said he believed that it was a natural death that just so happened when he was being restrained.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying Chauvin was behaving appropriately, I'm just saying George Floyd didn't die because of counterfeit money.
I can picture you holding up the customers note to the light every time they pay with a 20 🤣
@@tonyabrown7796 nah the scrunch test ( the first test implemented) always weeds them out, even if it looks correct the spongy shape holding notes never gets replicated
@@jerrynicholls7735 I used to work on a checkout and the number of foreign or fake money people had accepted amazed me.
@@tonyabrown7796 yeah ive fallen trap to that, the kiwi 10$ is the same as the aussie but is worth 2% less, but very little successful counterfeit currency
I am proud to say my uncle invented the ink that sticks the image to the note. The sizes are so blind people can identify them easily. They go through the was without damage really well
The best part about it is you can always find what note you’re looking for because they are different colours. I’ve had trouble with American currency in the past having to physically pull the note out of my wallet to check the denomination because they’re are all so similar
I bought breakfast in a diner in NYC and the waitress was an Aussie from Perth WA. She had been away for a while and was missing home. I added an AU$5 to the tip just to remind her that we still call Australia home.
So... a $US 3.30 tip.
@@petersargeant1555 yeah. On top of the 20%.
Top work. We still call Australia home.
Awww bless! So kind of you
"Is that the Queen?"
"That's the dumbest... why would she be on there?" 🤦♀️🤣
Excellent question American 👏
ikr
oh the timing.
The real Aussies will be voting to stay a part of the monarchy
she is our queen thats why Australia was founded by england we are still part of england thats why
Hmm I wonder🤔😂😂
In Nov. 1999, my wife and I holidayed in the US. In New York, we struck up a conversation with a vendor outside The Tower. He was fascinated by the 20, 10, and 5 dollar notes I had in my wallet, and asked if I would swap for $35.00 USD. I tried to tell him he was wasting money, exchange rate was $0.65, but he said it didn't matter, he was fascinated by 'plastic notes'. I eventually gave in and traded with him. He was outside the tower with the viewing area and had a souvenir cart. I have always hoped that on 9/11, he either wasn't there, or somehow survived.
Honestly, the plastic money does pretty much spring back into shape. Everyone hated it to start with. But we quickly started to appreciate them. The difference in size and colour makes it almost impossible to hand over the wrong note. As some others said though you can go without ever having to carry cash since you can just tap your debit card for anything.
I was working as a checkout chick and the gives kept on leaping out of the till when we first changed over. Lol
The first plastic notes got nicknamed "pollies" around where I lived, because just like politicians, the couldn't lie straight and they all stuck together.
The second minting was much better.
I didn't think about the fact that when I handle notes I just go by colour I don't even need to know what the number is.
Your channel is starting to get abit more reasonably sizeable so a really smart and super cool idea would be to setup a PO box so the Australian fans can mail you some random cool things 😎
Here here
Definitely I would send some stuff
Ditto, still can’t find your Discord address
That's a great idea, I would definitely send some things to Ryan 😊
Yes it is the Queen on the note . She was our head of state until her death
Thank you for caring enough to pronounce 'emu' correctly :) They are actually on our national coat of arms, along with the kangaroo, which is on our regular 50c coin, and all federal government documents and websites. The bigger note on the left of that line up is the first plastic note, which the vlogger uses as an example, but it's no longer in circulation. It was replaced with the blue 10 dollar note. The man on the horse is a reference to the poem written by Banjo Patterson (the man in the hat pictured on the 10 dollar note, who also wrote the lyrics for 'Waltzing Matilda') 'The Man from Snowy River'. It's a cultural classic that has had movies and stage shows, and probably other writings based on it. I highly recommend the movie. It was released in 1982, but it's aged pretty well, I think. I can hear the soundtrack in my head as I type!
They are shooting all the brumbies in the snowy mountains and they are not pictured on the new ten dollar note. what a coincidence!
There was movement at the station for the word had passed around
That the colt from Old Regret had got away.
@@jasonac Jason they're not shooting ALL the brumbies and they are an introduced species and they do damage the native flora. Worse are the introduced pigs, and now deer. In fact we've messed up our ecosystems quite a bit. There still will be brumbies, they shoot and kill kangaroos too. This is reality it's not all pretty.
Riding his Horse down that near vertical Mountain Side ,,,,EPIC
@@MrMambott It's a golden moment!
As an Aussie I have to say that I do think the original $10 note should have stayed. I don't have a problem with putting famous people on notes but there was something about that note that really stood out. Other notes commemorate individuals but that one spoke of us as a nation. It's hard to describe what I mean...
The notes last for ages and they are very easy to distinguish. They keep well in your wallet and fold over but generally don’t crease. I’m always amazed at their colour and technological beauty whenever I return from the US. They are so easy to use. Coins are also different thicknesses, weights and sizes so it is definitely designed for vision impaired as well. I’m very proud of our currency for sure!
I agree we do have tap and go everywhere but I still use currency for smaller coffee purchases etc to avoid bank surcharges which some merchants charge here.
And the emu is on the 50 cent coin. Our coins are another story of their own.
In regards to note sizes though, they are handy as different sizes I find. Much easier to distinguish when it’s night.
With tap and go everywhere and without a micro tipping culture, we don’t need to carry as many with us. Our economy has become largely cash optional.
And the US - I might have imagined it but I thought the $1 bill is smaller than others? I could be wrong on that!
The notes fit fine, the 100 note is the average size of the wallet compartment, they can be folded and can get fold lines but are easy enough to straighten. I tend to keep them folded in thirds inside my phone case or in my wallet I will have them in colour order. Easiest to open your purse and grab the colour you want instead of having to rummage through and mistakenly giving the wrong note
Yep, I always keep mine in order, just makes it even easier.
I come here to enjoy the ignorance of the channel owner
But at least he learns!
But doesnt know USA notes are Cotton/Linen!
But lately they keep changing the feel of the 50$ and 100$ so they feel wrong! Also the colours are slightly different so just seem off! which is annoying!
And they survive in the wash!!
I have seen some recently counterfeit Australian currency.
The Graphics where very good including the see thru hole. The colour was way off and also didnt feel right!
Looked wrong from 10 feet away!
The lady who tried to pass it didnt want to get a replacement one from the reserve bank AKA Give details but staff watched and got her rego!
The police raided the next day!
Bet she was annoyed with her boyfriend who supplied it and say it would work! LOL
@@danquaylesitsspeltpotatoe8307 Love your username 😂
When I was seven I took a magnifying glass to the (now old) ten dollar note. The mottled, rectangular background of his portrait is actually his acclaimed poem The Man From Snowy River printed as if handwritten with some tiny, tiny pen. The closer you look at any of the notes, only more intricacies you will find.
I took a photo of this last year, I use it as my Team's backdrop sometimes - it's just beautiful.
Pity I can't add the photo here
I used to be able to read the words without a magnifying glass 20 years ago (mid-40s now). Just tried it again -- not a hope in hell🤣
@@Youiethefly Damn man, props for being able to read it mid 20's!
@@HobsonRW Not exactly a party-stopper but still satisfying at the time.
@@Youiethefly I feel your pain... I'm in my 2nd year of my 50s and am lucky to be able to tell that it's a $10 note! 😂
As an Australian, I rarely use cash because why would I when EFT options are plentiful and far superior? But I took a $20 note with me when I went to the US, and it blew everyone away. It was so hilarious to look at the Mickey Mouse money they have over there, it's like something out of a cheap board game.
Far superior at getting your brainwashed azz scammed 😂
We’re Aussies and we never realised what little ‘ works of art’ all of our bank notes are !! Thanks Ryan - love your channel . We’ll make a surrogate ‘ Fair Dinkum Aussie’ of you yet mate! 🇦🇺
I literally just subscribed because you pronounced EMU correctly. As an Australian I cannot tell you how much we appreciate this.
I know.... We converted one of them
Let's now go after another.
1 by 1 they will be ours LOL
We lost a f**king war against those flightless bastards! Granted we were blind drunk and really couldn’t be arsed but it’s just insulting to bring up those evil birds 🤫🤦🏻♀️
The banknotes are different lengths, but you really don't notice it in daily use unless you line them up together.
Fun fact - Australia also produces currency for some other countries.
They're also different thicknesses.... The higher the denomination the thicker.
@@Robert-cu9bm I love them when they're new, and you can still feel all the texture of the print. Well, I guess it's more an imbed than a print.
Man I live in Perth and I'm learning so much about the notes 🤔
It's very noticeable in my wallet.
@@snazzy19 Its the ink. 2 layers of white, then multiple layers of the other colours. It adds a LOT of texture, and I always love getting new notes where it hasn't softened much.
I was one member of the four man team in a company called Information Concepts that was contracted by CSIRO and the Note Printing Branch of the Reserve Bank to help with the software to etch the plate for making the Optically Varying Device in the upper right. Unfortunately the metallic film could delaminate too easily so it was scrapped for later notes.
They did however contract us to create a note design system to replace their mechanical artwork creation system, and they were enormously pleased by the software we delivered. Very satisfying.
Something really cool is that on a lot of Australian symbols and badges there will be an emu and a kangaroo ontop, they where chosen because neither of them can walk backward and it symbolizes that we only advance forward
The wallet has to take the size of the largest bill. All the others will fit easily. The colours make it easy to find the right amount, people used to laugh and call our colourful notes "Munopoly Money". If you put the larger bills to the back, the smaller bills can be put in front, while still having the larger ones visible. It just works. The polymer means if scrunched up, the bills will not sit flat anymore, but you can put them in a stack and they will stay flat in the wallet, until you pull out the bent ones, they "remember" their messed up shape.
If you are finding older bills in circulation, they are likely to be still out there because they were kept somewhere for some time. Bills on high rotation get dirty, crushed, ripped etc and bank workers decide to send them off for replacement, when they are too far gone. If you find a messed up note, you can take it in and have it replaced as well.
The different colours & sizes make identifying which note you want out of your wallet sooooo easy. Every time I go to the US I have to double check every note I’m handing over to make sure I don’t cough up a hundred when I only need a $1! Love Aussie money 💵🇦🇺
SO true! they have at least added a colour to their notes lately, it was far worse 15 years ago.
the notes are different sizes so that blind people can tell them apart. they have a special sizing ruter that helps them to identifynotes by size. our coins also have different sizes, thiknesses and edges to help the blind. this has been the case since 14 february 1966.
Yes you are correct. The original $1 note was the Queen and the Queen is currently on our $5 note. And we also used to have a $2 note as well.
The most likely reason why we don’t have the emu on the notes is because it is part of the Australian emblem so it basically always will be there when the emblem is there
The Kangaroo is the national animal and the Emu is the national bird (neither of them can walk backwards, so to say Australia only moves forward), together they both bear the Australian coat of arms which is pictured on the $5 note, parliament house side if you look closely so the Emu is on one of the notes at least lol. The Kookaburra is the NSW State bird, not the nation's.
They also appear on non commemorative 50 cent coins
This is what gets me with all this left and right stuff which is all imaginary it's all just putting people into groups we should just be going forward
@@jamied8678 Agreed! Being politically literate is important, knowing how the system works and picking representatives that actually represent what you want for the country is important and standing up for what's best and right for the nation and the people in it when those who represent us aren't doing the right thing is important, we move forward when we care about what direction were going.
Voting one party because your parents do and when you're so rusted onto one parties side, you vote for and defend them even when they work directly against you is stupid and poisonous to democracy.
@@danielkelly8870 Daniel this is really cool so many times I have suggested that this whole left and right thing is completely ridiculous, often asking people how 7 billion people can fit into two political categories and and all I got back was the catchphrases that they were taught to say , acting as if it's a football match where you can't like the other side because of your group . Very cool that there's others that understand moving forward is exactly what we should be doing and United as a country not dividing ourselves . Divide-and-conquer is a very old political technique while people are arguing amongst themselves the people in control pulling all sorts of swiftys
@@jamied8678 the football match analogy is so spot on, and it's so toxic, party politics has become the new sport and unfortunately social media provides the perfect arena and the anonymity it provides, the perfect excuse to weaponise speach, share nasty hate based views and dehumanise the people who disagree with little consequence they could never do in real life society. It's more like a gladiatorial arena than a football field really the eh?
Fun fact: nearly every millimetre of the old notes have barcodes, lines, numbers, holograms and stuff. The little circle with a bit of the Commonwealth star has the completed star when you look at it in full sunlight. Also good deduction, the notes are all different sizes to help blind and visually impaired people easily know how much they're handling over. I know it's been a lifesaver for me after a pub crawl, nearly spent a pineapple on a snack pack rather than a lobster. I'd be up shit creek from the missus if it wasn't for the currency over engineering
10:07 - If you pause the video here, rotate 90 degrees anti-clockwise, you now have a whale eating the queen.
10:19 - If you look between the back of Banjo's neck and the horse, there is small text that says TEN DOLLAR repeatively. I want to say that its on all the notes but I could be wrong, haven't used cash in a long time, let alone held anything above a $50 note.
13:30 - The bird in the little transparent window is a Lyre Bird, which you will also find on the Australian 10 cent coin. I HIGHLY recommend you check them out, they are unreal. Their ability to mimic sound is like no other bird I have ever seen. They can mimic kookaburras to the point where kookaburras get confused, even objects like chainsaws from trees being cut down around them, camera shutters from photographers, and many more.
As an aussie, I am absolutely obsessed with these videos. It's a lot of fun watching you taking the initiative to learn the ways of another country, definitely something I should do. The quick google searches for when you are unsure might be small but really shows you are trying your best to understand and definitely may be helpful to others as well. Keep it up mate, great work
Plastic notes are actually pretty great. They are waterproof, so you can keep them with you when swimming, don't have to worry about forgetting them in the washing machine, they survive a summer sweat. And they are obviously much more robust and don't have to be replaced as often.
The monarch's portrait is always on the lowest denomination note. It used to be on the $1 note, but when the $1 note was discontinued, the monarch's portrait was put on the $5 note.
In Australia, perhaps. Here in New Zealand, it's on the $20 note.
@@wolf1066 Isn't it $20 on the NZ notes.
@@mrbenwong86 Yes, you're right. Sorry - had a "senior moment". Corrected it. Thanx
a new $5 note is surely coming soon! God bless the King?
Soon after the new currency came out, I was in the bank and another customer handed a very sorry looking $5 note in. The teller asked what happened. The customer said it went through the washing machine in his pocket and came out wet, so he ironed it dry. It melted :)
Yes, the Queen is on Australian notes and coins because we are a Commonwealth country and she is our head of state. US notes are made from linen and cotton with tiny red and blue fibres embeded in the note.
We have the new $20 and $100 notes now so you should find an updated video. I honestly love our notes. They look so cool and they’re very unique compared to most other currencies.
Hey Ryan, on the back of the $5 it shows our Parliament building in Canberra. To build it, they effectively removed a hill, built the building, and then put the hill back over the top of it. The roof is covered in grass and, up until a few years back, you could walk over it. Check it out, it’s worth a look
Moving to Canberra next year, can't wait to go check out Parliament House.
The reason behind that design is awesome too. It was built that way so that people could walk all over their politicians, while they served them below their feet, so as to remind politicians of their place in serving the people. They say it's stopped for security reasons, I think more likely the politicians wanted an excuse to change that symbolism
Burley Griffin's original design had Kurrajong Hill (now Capital Hill) as a place for the people, with Parliament House lower down so that the Parliament is not above the people. The idea was that there would be a park or some public monument for the people at the top of the hill, and Parliament House would be on the side of the hill. When new Parliament House was designed they took the idea of "people above the Parliament" into account. Some of Burley Griffin's ideas in designing Canberra are quite interesting (although some of them never came to fruition exactly how he'd planned), and the main focus is a triangle with Parliament (Capital Hill), People (Russel*) and Administration (Civic**) at the corners (this is actually what "Parliamentary Triangle" refers to, although these days people seem to confuse it with "Parliamentary Zone"- the area below Capital Hill to the shores of Lake Burley Griffin
*Russel was intended to be mall/market, and while it has become a centre for Defence offices that wasn't BG's plan (and the location for the War Memorial below Mt Ainslie was intended to be a meeting place for people - sort of a mingling between the administration and commerce).
**Civic was intended as offices rather than being the city. The city was planned to be in the Manuka/Kingston area
NB: BG was an American (I think from Chicago?) so a lot of old maps and plans have "Capitol" rather than "Capital"
NB2: BG's wife Marion Mahony Griffin was also an architect, and many people think a lot of the design was likely her idea (or at least strongly influenced by her ideas).
@@brosert BG was also a bit of a weirdo occultist who believed in geomancy to some degree!
Some years ago, while travelling across Lake Chaplain (USA) from Port Kent to Burlington as an Australian tourist, an American and I started a very friendly conversation. It eventually came to the point where he asked if I had Australian money with me. End of the story he gave $10 US for $5 Australian as he was so taken by the texture and colour of our money.
As an Aussie I have to say there is so many little details in our notes
But as well as that having different colour is cooler coz if I pay someone off I don't tell them the amount instead I say I got a green 2 gold 2 red and a pink or blue
(Edit. Side note if you want to get your hands on some notes I can arrange something)
Yeah! I've been to about 20 different countries and I haven't seen such beautiful notes as ours. Thanks for appreciating them.
The notes are extremely durable when considering what they replaced. Like many countries NZ followed Australia's lead and adopted the polymer notes. A few years ago I left a $5 note in my shirt when it went through a hot wash, the result was only a little fading of the colour but it remained perfectly usable.
Just don't iron them
I was recycling the plastic notes before they were released. They are not tough, and only have an expected lifespan of a year or 2 with heavy handling. Over $100,000 goes into making one compost bin when recycled.
Moved into a new house in 2011. Early in 2012, started to rebuild the front garden, dug a polymer $10 up out of the garden bed while pulling out hedging. Washed it in warm water and detergent, came up like new. It's been rolled up and sat under the arm of our happy Buddha ever since for good luck. Still haven't won the lottery but on the bright side, I'm also still ten bucks up on the deal...
@@tonyhicks635 yeh. Heat can either shrink or melt them. I've seen a melted banknote & a shrunken one.
I think the mint also makes the other polymers in NZ, south-east Asia, and the UK. The US wanted the technology for nothing but thankfully our government said no. Not giving them the same deal as Pine Gap, which is maybe a dollar per year. Suspect that we were dudded.
The note sizes, colours and tactile features are to assist identifying the notes for vision impaired and also for good vision people in poor lighting to avoid passing or receiving the wrong notes. Where in US all are same size and colour it is very common to get wrong value notes paying or getting change back especially in busy, dim lighting conditions, and handling counting money from larger stacks of notes. No one would like getting/passing the wrong amount
In the movie about Ray Charles life it showed that he used to be asked to be paid in $1 bills for that very reason.
I'm sad the vid didn't show the rest of the microprint
To this day , some Australians still complain he $5 and the $20 look similar. Go figure ! :)
@@mikeduffy67 bro cmon, thats not true. No aussie complains about the $5 and $20 lookimg alike. Because they look nothing alike. One is orange/red, the other is pink and theres quite a difference in size.
@@silenttitan416 I never said it made sense :)
I was amazed when dad showed us some Australian paper notes in 1970. We were leaving England for Australia. I was nine and my first plane ride. A Boeing 707. It was a very long trip. 24 hours. Via Pakistan and Kuala Lumpur. I still live in Melbourne. I have travelled to America and Canada. Long trips also.
The guy on the horse with a whip is "The man From Snowy River", a character in a Poem of the same name. The portrait is of "Banjo" Paterson who wrote the Poem. And if you hold a magnifying glass up to the area in front of Paterson's head, the full text of the poem is inked on the note in microtext.
The Emu or ... Emoooo (if you prefer lol) is on our coat of arms, along with the kangaroo. Yes, they don't crumple up, they stay nice and crisp and sit in a wallet perfectly. Being different sizes, they are super easy to load into a wallet with the $5 at the front, working up to the largest denomination that you have on you. So you can easily identify what denomination you want to pull out to pay with, without needing to pull it all out.
Our $1 and $2 are coins (we call them goldies, due to their gold colour), with our 5 cent, 10 cent and 50 cent, all being sliver in colour.
You forgot the 20 cent coin
Let's create a drinking game every time Ryan states Emoooo.
@@elizagaskell7957 I can't afford to be that drunk lol
@@nicholashall7999 Ooops, my bad :(
@@nicholashall7999 Yes the coins, they all have Aussie animals on them
You’re right, the different sized bank notes do help blind people navigate the system.
EDIT: keep saying Eem-You, we love it 😊
I like watching your stuff Ryan. I’m an Aussie and it’s fun to watch your interest in Oz. 😊
I remember when the plastic notes came out, the first thing I noticed after how beautiful they are, was that when they were folded, it was bad, it was messy. It has been many years now, but I aways get a wallet that I can keep the notes in flat, because folding them damages the notes. When the folding happens, actually creasing, you can't easily put the note flat. If you put it on the table, it bounces.
Never heard anyone comment on the font.. love your original reactions.. even when you ask yourself stupid questions 😆
Is that the Queen? Why would she be on money.. LOL
The different sizes are for the blind.. there is also a Braille number on the note as well.
They are water proof and very resistant to crumpling..
The Emu is on the 50c piece as it has our Coat of Arms on it.. so a Kangaroo as well. Neither animal can back up, so they symbolises our Nation and People moving forward.
Don't laugh, now we'll have to look at Chuckie's mug....YIPES!!
I can't say I ever noticed the 0's being smaller than the number until he pointed it out, then all off a sudden it looked weird to me!
@@rightwinggo9694 Unless the push to use Steve Irwin takes hold! 🤞😍 I wouldn't mind seeing John Farnham's or Warnie's Mug on there either! After all, they are all Aussie Royalty!
@@myopinion69420 Same here.... How weird eh?
As Australia is not a republic, its still a constitutional monarchy. So our head of state is still the Queen of Great Britain, or the King now. Members of Parliament and the military swear allegiance to the Kinq/Queen.
It’s Queen Elizabeth II, she’s on all of our coins too because we were part of the British Commonwealth, like Canada, New Zealand, Fiji, etc.
And still are part of the Commonwealth.
I wonder when they’re going to process new coins with Charles on them?
@@zombiemeg I imagine they are nearly ready to go. Probably waiting for a current image of the King & year to be added to the molds.
@@zombiemeg They'll start getting them ready after his coronation
@@zombiemeg They said next year.
You should look into John Monash.
He revolutionised modern combat and basically created and pushed modern Conbined Arms tactics.
I think with one battle he commanded he said something like "it will be done in an hour" and it was over within like 10 minutes of his estimate or something.
Really interesting stories
The emu is on the Australian Coat of Arms which was designed in 1908. The Emu War was 1932. Australian polymer notes were introduced in the 1990s. As an Aussie I can confirm that we may be just a tad salty when it comes to emus hence their absence from our new bank notes.
G'day mate, you should get yourself a PO BOX, Australians are loving generous people, I'm sure there are many like me who would love to send gifts from our wonderful country. If you go to iw rocker's chanel and check out his mail time videos, you'll see just what I mean. Love the content mate, much love to you, your wife and your precious little one.
I've been thinking the same thing, would love to send him some Aussie stuff.
Couldn’t agree more!!
Awwww that is soooo sweet! ❤️
I'd be willing to send him one of ever kind of AUD $ just so he can do an Updated video
We gotta send this man some vb and Tim tams
Polymer notes were Invented here and now printed for over 30 countries. Our notes are works of art and have so many cool features.
The Kookaburra is the state bird of New South Wales, I know they think they are the whole country sometimes but the national bird is the Emu.
Well @murraya82, it pays to remember all of Australia with the exception of Western Australia WAS NSW, and all of the other states were declared as separate British colonies over time. Brisbane and Hobart were founded from Sydney by the colonial government, Adelaide was a separate act of colonisation from Britain, and, well, Melbourne was illegally settled by some disgruntled individuals from Tasmania without authority from either the NSW colonial authorities or the British Colonial Office!😂😅
@@richardbradshaw696 ahhh, but the whole country includes Tasmania and WA and all of the 1st nations. The first time it was all 1 nation was in 1901 (I acknowledge that while incorporated, First Nations peoples were not included for quite a time), well after some sane people had separated into Victoria, SA and Queensland. 😊
Poor NT was stuck with NSW, then SA, then NSW for a while before it was acknowledged as separate from these (beers, beers, beers).
@@murraya82 yes - my point was merely that from a British colonial perspective the continent was initially divided into New Holland (WA) and NSW, which was everything else, and over the following decades and longer the other states and territories were carved off from NSW, prior to 1901 as separate self governing colonies which became the state's post federation, then later for the territories (with the NT bouncing around as you've pointed out). So if as you say the residents of NSW think at times they are Australia (which I actually don't think is the case), then perhaps because historically it almost was the whole country😅🤣😂.
@@richardbradshaw696yes, I got it thanks, sarcasm (my answer) does not transmit well on here. I was pointing out that they may have originally been most of the country but never all (as I may have been sarcastically stating in my first reply). Tasmania and WA have never been NSW, so they have never been the whole country as they try to suggest 😊.
All good mate.
BTW, a little interesting fact. If you grab a magnifying glass on the $10 note, behind the man's head is the poem "The Man from Snowy River" the man depicted is the author Andrew Barton Patterson, best known as 'Banjo' Patterson. He is the also the author of some other great Aussie ballads such as "Clancy of the Overflow" and that horseman depicted is Clancy on his horse.
I hope you found this little nugget interesting.
You should see the new $100 note. It's stunning. The emu is on the Australian Coat of Arms. I keep notes in order of size & fit the largest perfectly so not a problem. 😍
nobody can see it, it is hardly ever available
@@suave-rider *opens wallet* I see a few in here. Just go into the bank directly and ask a teller for one of the newer ones if they have them
There's an emu and a kangaroo in the Coat of Arms on the 50 cent coin, in case no one else mentions it.
@@toby9999 they are there because the emu and the kangaroo are both unable to walk backwards.
@@johnphelps9788 yup, it's the best way to trap those pesky emus :) trick them into holding the coat of arms in front of them & now they're trapped, since they can't walk backwards to escape lol
Isn't the USA the only country where bank notes are all the same size and colour? Before the Euro was introduced, at least The Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, France, Italy and Switzerland already had bank notes in different sizes and colours and raised prints, so Euro bills have the same setup. It helps people with a disability by using different sizes, colours and a raised print so they can also feel which note it is they're holding in their hands. I really like it that the Euro and the Australian dollar (and probably every other currency in the world except the US dollar) is taking visually impaired people into consideration. That alone is more than enough reason to keep cash, even though I haven't used cash for many years already...
I recently heard about $0 Euros. That's a pretty cool idea imo. Maybe you can use those if you don't use cash but like the money :)
Yesss you can very easily as a foreigner get a $1 and a $100 mixed up, Americans know but if you visit always be careful
@@mehere8038 umm huh?
@@SilverFoxy207 the $100 is a bluish colour with a blue stripe. The $1 is whiteish. Pretty easy to notice the difference.
@@SilverFoxy207 different countries in the EU produce their own EU notes to commemorate their own architecture & events, cause the real EU's are fairly generic, so as to represent the entire union. To make this work & prevent counterfeiting, the commemorative notes are $0 notes - although some of them have significant value as collector items, even hundreds to thousands of dollars each
I'm not sure if someone has already mentioned this, but our notes are different sizes and colours for accessibility reasons. Also, if you look carefully, they actually have braille on them.
Australian here - yes our notes are different lengths (though not generally different heights - that first $10 bill hasn't been in circulation for quite some time, and I've never seen one), and it's actually quite handy even if you aren't blind, since you can square up one end of whatever notes you happen to have, and the other end will have all the different notes at different heights, letting you pick out the notes with the right length for what you're paying for (I make that even easier for myself by keeping them in order of value, so that if I somehow have a couple of each note, I won't end up with my fives stuck between random longer notes).
I've also spent a couple of weeks in China, and the notes there, while paper-like and therefor inferior to Australian bank notes, are different heights and lengths, and I honestly found that even more convenient - a wallet doesn't need them all to be the same size, so long as they all fit into the wallet (I made that mistake once - that wallet did not get used for long), and just putting the notes into my wallet would sort them out, so that all the different heights highlighted their denomination - no need to pull out the notes to find the right one, that one feels like the right size (the fact that they have notes worth about 10c did help me get enough practice to somewhat learn to do that).
Glad you like them! We're pretty proud!
1:32 Trust your gut. We're still a Commonwealth. Very soon our notes will have King Charles on them. RIP Queen Elizabeth II
13:40 The Emu is on our Coat of Arms, but it is not the national bird. The Kookaburra is a much better choice. The Emu and Kangaroo are used on the CoA because they can not move backwards. Like Australia, they are always moving forward.
some sources say Emu, some say Kookaburra. To me the Kookaburra makes more sense. as far as I know, they are all over the country, whereas Emu's are not everywhere. apparently down here in Tassie we ate all the Emu's, so the only place you see them down here is in wildlife parks.
No we won't, the coins yet but not notes.
@@MrStGeorgeIllawarra yeah, only the $5 has the queen on it now anyway and there is talk of replacing her on the $5 with someone Australian.
@@myopinion69420 Kookaburras are actually introduced pests here in WA but also in Tassie, and not widely present in the NT (if at all). We're actually looking at culling them because they're killing all of our endemic wildlife. Besides Tassie, emus are endemic to the whole mainland and have a large distribution. Travelling out of the city and you can see emus and camels just wandering along the vegetated highways.
The definition of paper is pressed and dried cellulose fibres. Cotton is made from cellulose. In fact, early paper was made from cotton, linen, old clothes, etc. People used to walk around towns and cities to get people's old clothes from them so it could be turned into paper. It's only been in more recent centuries that paper has been made from wood pulp.
You would also like the fact that the Australian bank notes are of different size, like the rest of the world, so visually impaired people can tell them apart by sense of touch, not like the American ones that are all the same size.
Blind people are taught to fold them to see if they are same before the new markers on the notes
The thing he misses in this video is they are waterproof
I’ve been at the local pool and I’ve seen people playing with a 5 dollar note
Another great advantage of the polymer notes is that you can keep your money in your pocket when swimming at the beach (and it also doesn’t matter if you accidentally send it through the wash).
Never forget the day in the 90's when a fiver floated past me when out for a surf. Best post-surf hot-chip roll ever:)
Idk if the new wave of bank notes do this, but the old ones would start to fade if they were put through the wash. I remember being a little kid and leaving notes in my pockets by mistake and they’d eventually start to lose their colour.
The emu and kangaroo are on our official "coat of arms" because they are two creatures that can't walk backwards. It signifies that Australia is always advancing or moving forward not backwards.
Fun fact: Every denomination is 7mm longer than the next.
Fun fact: The entire Commonwealth (the UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand etc) will have all their notes and coins changed to replace the Queen with the King.
Not quite. Most of the countries which make up the Commonwealth are republics so won't be changing anything. The Commonwealth Realms (NZ, Australia, UK, Canada etc) will certainly change some notes, eg the $5 in Australia and the $20 in Canada. I haven't seen an NZ note or a UK note for a while so I don't know which denominations the Queen appears on in those countries, some or all? The coins, however, will indeed all change to show King Charles III. By tradition, the new monarch faces in the opposite direction to the previous one so his head will look towards the left.
@@ballantynemoyes8019 The Queen is on every note and coin in NZ. Is she on the coins in the other countries?
They will be added into circulation I'm sure they won't change them immediately
@@miker5740 Definately. They will be working on it but Charles hasn't had his coronation yet and even after that they will be circulated in at some point
@@davidsmilerarandomkiwifrom6045 he is pretty old, there's a chance to see 3 monarchs on the coins in the future
When I visited the US, I found all the notes being the same size and (roughly) the same colour to be really frustrating. Different sizes are good because you can still easily determine the relative values of the notes in poor light.
agreed! i could never work out what was what.
it annoyed me having to constantly look for the denomination of their bills, to make sure you're paying the right amount, instead of just being able to pull out a strawberry or a pineapple at a glance
7:14 and we have these 😁 never been prouder of Australia, I think. Also, that is a swan
Here in the UK our notes are all different sizes as well. Braille is fine once you have the note out of your wallet but a different size helps you differentiate while it's still in your wallet.
You should react to the entire movie the castle.
Ask any Australian to quote something only Australians would get and you'll get basically this whole movie quoted.
"How's the serenity" ☺️
Total Australian inside jokes.
"It's the vibe"
"Tell him he's dreaming".
These are all quotes you'll hear often in Australia because of this iconic movie
"What do you call this, love?"
"Rissoles"
He will need an Aussie alongside him to translate. 😆
"Dad i dug a hole"😂
@@youngfellabuilds I was about to that lol
“ there’s lead in the soil” “big fucken driveway”
"What's the dumbest thing an American has ever said to you?" 1:27
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The joy of the original blue $10 note is that the side with the horse and rider is about Banjo Patterson, a noted Australian poet. The poem symbolised on the note is his most famous, "The Man From Snowy River"! which is about a newly bought expensive colt getting loose to run with the brumbies (feral horses, equivalent of mustangs) and several people gathering to try and catch it. Amongst them is one guy on a horse that is small and stocky, who ends up leading his horse down a very precarious slope after the colt, eventually successfully catching the stray. The picture on the note is of that climactic bit going down the slope. The other feature was that the greyed bit, around Patterson's portrait was actually micro-text, of the poem itself.
The sad part is when they redesigned and updated the notes a few years ago, no equivalent feature was on any of them.
As for how they feel in one's wallet, if they have been in there for a while, folded, the folds will stay for a while. If the wallet can hold a whole note flat it will be less bent.
Also, the emu is on the 50 cent coin, which has the coat of arms, which is bracketed by an emu and kangaroo.
As a Australian this money is normal for me and I’ve never rlly thought abt how beautiful our money is
The thinking behind the look of the notes is, each note is a distinctly different colour so people with diminished sight can differentiate. Each note is 5 millimeters longer than the lower value note, again to assist people differentiate. Each note has a braille mark denoting the value. Each note, except the five, has a male on one side and a female on the other, the $5 shows the Queens head. The $10 has a male on the front, female on the back, the $20 a female on the front a male on the back and so on. The Queens head has always appeared on the lowest denomination paper note. When the production of the $1 and $2 notes ceased,the new $5 showed the Queen. That, along with all our coins will now change. A new $5 note will be issued next year showing King Charles III. All coins in circulation have the Queens head, facing right, on the front and Australian wildlife on the reverse. Next year, the coins minted will have King Charles III, facing left. As more coins are minted, the coins showing the Queens head will be withdrawn from circulation, but that process will go on for many years. As for the plastic, it’s as thin as paper, very difficult to tear, can go through a wash cycle in your washing machine and come out undamaged and is almost impossible to successfully counterfeit.
all coins have "Australian wildlife on the reverse"? That's an interesting concept lol Are you including the $2 coin in that description?
My mistake, I do beg pardon and apologize sincerely for any offence. What embarrasses me most is that your comment is precisely the objection I raised of the $2 coin when it was introduced. Thank you for the correction.
OMG I hadn't thought about having King Charles on our money 🥺 can't we just put someone Australian on instead
Hi Sharon, my understanding is, no, not unless we declare ourselves a Republic.
@@marklivingstone3710 hmm I missed any controversy when it was released, I only noticed it when I was listing off the animals on our coins for someone online fairly recently, hadn't heard anything about it before that. Was it a big issue that was raised? & what did Aboriginal people think/say about the whole thing? Glad I'm not the only one that noticed & thinks there's an issue with it - even if I was late to the party
As an aussie, i never knew that are cash was 'cool'.
The length of each note is different so a blind person can lay it on their open hand with fingers pointing up and they can tell the difference. A deliberate design feature.
I really enjoyed this one and will actually have a closer look at the notes in my wallet now. I think we are just so used to them we don’t stop to appreciate how innovative they are. They fit in a wallet, hold their shape and don’t deteriorate if accidentally run through the washing machine.
I laughed hysterically when you though the pathetic drawing of the potentially new $100 note was put up 🤣! Keep up the great reactions 👍 Jace's fan club! 💙
Interesting to note that the colour of the banknotes has never changed. Before decimal currency the ten shilling note ($1) was brown and was brown until it was taken out of circulation. The 1 pound note ($2) was green until it was withdrawn from circulation, the 5 pound($10) has always been blue and the 10 pound ($20) was red and still is. Through all the design changes the colour stayed the same. The new notes, $5 purple, the $50 yellow and $100 green were all introduced since decimal currency in 1966 but they have stayed the same colours despite design changes.
Pretty sure for Aussie cash (hi I’m Australian) the selling point on it fitting into wallets and whatnot is that as it’s made out of polymer and not paper cotton mix, it is a great deal thinner than America dollar notes so it stacks and slips into wallets quite easily
The Aussie banknotes also have nicknames/ slang which can vary depending on which State you’re from. Common ones for the $20 note are Lobster or Redback because of its red colour. The $50 is often known as a Pineapple because of its colour. The size difference isn’t much and we use the same wallets as you guys and they fit no problem. They fold easily enough but don’t crease easily like paper money.
I found it really difficult when visiting the USA to determine which note was which because they’re all the same colour and size. Especially as a tourist I didn’t want to be walking around holding a stack of notes trying to work out if it was a $1, $10 or $100 note! Our colourful money makes it very easy to tell at a glance what you’re handing over. Many Americans wanted me to give them our colourful notes but kinda treated it like Monopoly money. Ummm, sure I’ll just give you a $50 or $100 note without anything in return! It is real money!!! I did take some commemorative $1 and $2 coins in packaging from the Australian Mint as gifts.
5s pink ladies like the flower 10s blue bottles jelly fish n 100s greenbacks turtles there the terms ive heard for the others.
never heard anybody give them these stupid names
@@suave-rider same
I've always called the Twenty a Crayfish which seems to be the common thing here in Victoria amongst us Older Aussies .
@@stuartmcquade3407 I've always heard it been called a brick
The best thing with the polymer bank notes is that if you put them in the washing machine by mistakes (in a pocket, etc) they usually survive intact. Our old paper ones rarely survived.
In Australia, laundering money is a daily activity - with no repercussions.
The Emu was on the one dollar note in the coat of arms, we no longer use notes for either the one dollar or two dollars, both are now coins
I'm Australian. Our notes are different sizes and have different raised bumps on them as well, so blind people can use them.
The note on the far left at the end is no longer in circulation. Just the last set of 5,10,20,50 and 100. We also don’t have copper coins. 5c 10c 20c 50c $1 and $2 coins. So if you buy something and it comes to $2.99 you pay $3 but If it was $2.97 your paying $2.95 👍🏻
You were wondering where the Emus were? They have pride of place on the Australian Coat of Arms, with the Kangaroo. Both animals were chosen because neither of them are capable of going backwards, they can only walk/jump forward. Hoping that our country will always go forward!
Yes in fact, that is queen elizabeth. The last bird is a lyrebird, and the emu is on the coins in the Australian coat of arms. The coins have other animals also, echidna, kangaroo, platypus etc
Omg the most American reaction ever-- "who IS that lady?.......oh, is that the queen?"
I have to say that I hate the US currency. You go to a bar, it's dark, they all look the same. I don't know if I'm pulling out a $1 note (highly likely since you get so many of them) or more. I love that our currency is so colourful and different lengths so you can easily tell.
Some countries have the lower amounts IE coins as notes. It's a real pain. U know how u end up with 10 5c pieces. Yeah u get a stack of 10 notes
The queen...our 2022 notes are almost impossible to counterfeit...the Emu is on our national crest along with the kangaroo
Aussie here, our notes certainly are beautiful and they are different sizes but you can easily fold them. No issues there 😄😄
Aussie bank notes have vibrant colours and designs as well as multiple holograms and micro-dots for security as well as some other measures that the general public is not even aware of. A few years ago a couple from America stayed with me and when they went home they took an example of the whole set of notes to show their friends. The Emu is on the Coat of Arms and appears on the back of the One Dollar note. By the way, Australia is the only country that eats it's National Emblem!!! Cool video and reaction. Jon from Aus
The Emu is on Australia's Coat of Arms with the Kangaroo. They used them because it is believed neither can move backwards and symbolises Australia's commitment to always progress forward and never go backwards as a Nation
1. LMFAO............ Never going backwards as a nation LMFAO..... sorry i'm fucking dying , i mean cmon, sometimes us aussies take the comedy a bit too far.
Sco Mo was certainly not a step forward
Australia is certainly full of some shit though isn't it
things like
Advance Australia Fair (The Literal meaning)
Let us rejoice for we are young and free
Moving forward as a nation
The right to peaceful protest (i mean..... Try it LOL See if you don't get arrested)
it's funny you can tell a cop to get fucked and he'll likely overlook it (maybe)
but if you go to Martin Place or Town Hall , Sit on the ground, Put up a sign that says something like ........ I don't know...... FREE THE KANGAROO
and if you start getting a few people gathering around, You're gonna get arrested , without saying a word
but.... it's ok to tell a cop to fuck off or that hes' a wanker
What a country we live in huh ?
2. i'ts not believed they can't move backwards, they literally can't
That’s an interesting concept, that’s something I didn’t learn in school.
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Really, in my knowledge, most kids my generation learned it, we didn't care too much for it but it was thrust upon us that the kangaroo and emu can't walk backwards so then when we had a school excursion to the zoo we made sure to test this , we would surround and emu and start in front of it and to the side only allowing it to go back, LOL... it never does, it pushes forward through you
as for the kangaroo, if you do the same thing, be careful because first, he just sits there
then if you walk into him and force him backwards, he will kick you , a friend of mine had a close call but he wasn't hit
Your pronunciation of Emu is coming along well , it doest sound like E moo anymore which you've correctly surmised drives Australians insane . And dollaridoos comes from The Simpsons but we adopted it
One of the best ways to tell whether a note is counterfeit in Australia is by trying to scrunch it. If it doesn’t bounce back into shape, and keeps creases in it, it’s probably fake.
So the Emu is not on the notes (is on our coins) but one of the early naming ideas was to call our currency emu's. 5 emu's 20 emu's. Also fun fact one print run of our $50 notes miss spelt the word responsibility in the poem section, so will probably become a collector item if you can get one.
Well done with emu pronunciation. Also the nots fold and do age, largely due to accumulated folds/tears. Average age means that some notes will exceed and some will last less, so you will still see older than average notes but they get rarer over time. Emu is in the coat of arms
You should do a video on General Sir John Monash. He was and almost certainly will be the last general to be knighted on the battlefield by the monarch. Plus at the time the United States army and Australia fought together on the western front. The US forces who had been training with the Australians were excluded from an upcoming offensive by their commanders. With the help of some typical Aussie disrespect for authority, they helped the Americans, who wanted to join them in the offensive, steal uniforms and fight alongside them.
Unfortunately, they got caught and couldn't fight. However, some US companies did go into battle under Monash at Hamel because it was too late to withdraw them. As a result, the first time that US soldiers saw active duty outside the USA was under the command of an Australian general.
@@robynmurray7421 Partly correct Robyn but it was the first American involvement in WW1under Monash's command (they had fought outside of the US before but not in WW1 at that stage) and the battle at Hamel was timed to be on 4th July to honour American Independence Day. The American General (Pershing) wanted the American forces first involvement to be at a later stage under the command of an American ( ie himself) and ordered the Americans not to take part. Some American companies were peed off as they had done a significant amount of training alongside the Australians and disobeyed the order and took part.
It was Pershing's preference for a large American influenced Battle that he hoped would break the stalemate and lead to an end of the war so he could claim that it was the American involvement that brought the war to an end.
The battle was the first ever to use the combined forces of artillery, tanks, aircraft and infantry.
The planning process was so meticulous that it was said that every soldier knew what his individual role was, not just a group push like so many previous occasions that resulted in wholesale slaughter. The Australian planners built scale model of the battlefield that all the Officers and NCOs were required to visit and walk around to understand first hand what their role would be.
Monash's planning method of combining the various branches became the model for military planning and it has been said that the German blitzkrieg of WW2 followed the Monash design.