Thanks for the link. That’s a really good article.
No prob! Internet obsessions are what we’re here for!
The only counterfeit banknote I’ve ever gotten was a Journey $10, the first version that had the gold maple-leaf overprint and no hologram stripe. I got it as change in a cab on the way to work one hurried day, and went to spend it on a meat pie in the snack shop at the subway station, and they wouldn’t accept it. Later, the cashier at the company caf showed me some ways to distinguish counterfeits (paper ones anyways): they smudge when wet, and the one I had changed texture after it dried.
I kept it pinned to the wall of my cube for a couple of years.
Sunspace, that’s a great backgrounder article. Thanks!
I got one of the new $100 bills yesterday, just to have a longer look at it than my cabdriver buddy would allow me. It is interesting!
Anyone else notice that the silver metallic iridescent “holographic” stripe scrapes off real easily?
And it’s gone. I met the person I owed $100 to.
I’m Australian, plastic banknotes are old news. Paper banknotes seem like black and white TVs to me. You guys are still using them? Ha!
I think it is a bit funny that Canada moving to plastic notes warrants a thread that is 4 pages long. Doesn’t anything ever happen there?
Hopefully not.
One of the businesses in town offers secure data storage based on nothing ever happening here.
It got pretty exciting last night, though, for the lights went on for the first time this season at the cross-country ski trails by my place. Yipee!
Nope! Nothing ever happens here.*
[sub]*except for the times the Jays won the World Series, and the floods in '97, and when that guy got beheaded on the intercity bus, and the Oka Crisis, and the time there was an earthquake outside Ottawa… We haven’t had any volcanoes lately, though.[/sub]
But you do have plastic bank notes don’t you? I think I read that somewhere.
Nope, none up my way yet. Fresh paper C-notes, yes, but plastic, no. I feel unloved. Until we get some plastic bills up this way, I think my region should blocade the highway at the bridge where it is the only road connecting eastern and western Canada.
I assume you could reassemble the coin on a flat surface, while it’s still cold, and it would fix itself?
Still, your mint should fix this. IIRC both Canada and Mexico have two-alloy “ring” coins but I never heard of this being possible with any of them.
Canada’s two dollar coin (the toonie) had this issue when it was originally released too. They fixed it somehow, I believe.
I just received my first plastic $100. The transparent part is nicely placed, so that if I duct tape the edge of the bill to the bridge of my nose, I can see through the bill with one eye. Once I receive another one, I’ll be able to make a pair of Robert Borden Super-Goggles. DA-da-DAAAAA! (Muffin stands with arms akimbo, looking out proudly over Her Majesty’s Dominion.)
Fear the absolute refraction of the Borden Super-Goggles!
Every week, I get my TIME magazine, and turn to the “World” spread, which has ten red dots on a map of the globe, showing the world’s hotspots: tsunamis, nuclear meltdowns, car-bombings, coups, plummeting currencies, congressional stand-offs, mass protests against crooked elections, and so on.
I can’t remember ever seeing a red dot in Canada.
Nope, nothing much happens up here. We like it that way. 
To quote Brent Butt, on receiving a $100 bill: “Gordon, you and me are going places!”
And I hope we never do.
Sure, lots happens here. For example, just last year we changed to a new type of $100 bill!