Turn Of The Century
Jul03
You can usually get a kid to read something if you pay him money, eh?
Apparently the words to ‘The Man From Snowy River’ are written extremely small on the Australian ten dollar note as part of the counterfeit protection for the note. I haven’t seen them, but I don’t have a magnifying glass! The one hundred dollar note is a nice money green colour, but… I don’t often get to hold any of those!
Also, yes, our ten dollar note is blue. We have rather colourful money.
Very colorful…I think the US is one of the few countries where all the bills are the same shade (That’s slowly changing….)
One ink-colour bills are too easy to counterfeit.
Canadian Money:
$1 = golden coin
$2 = Bimetal gold/silver coin
$5 = Blue bill
$10 = Purple bill
$20 = Green bill
$50 = Magenta bill
$100 = Brown bill
Much the same as us, McBob. The 5c, 10c, 20c and 50c pieces are all nickel based coins, the $1 and $2 coins are both gold plated, but the notes are all different colours. Purple for the five, blue for the 10, orange for the 20, yellow for the 50 and green for the 100. We dropped the copper 1c and 2c coins back in the late 80s. There’s talk they’re thinking of getting rid of the 5c pieces too at the moment. But what else will we put into parking meters??
It always caused me trouble that the Aussie $5 note looks like the Canadian $10 and the Aussie $10 note looks like the Canadian $5. If I gave a cabbie the wrong change he let me know quick enough but I wonder how often they kept quiet when the mistake went the other way.
You mean parking meters haven’t gone plastic? I don’t know because we no longer have functional meters where I live.
It was a joke – we used to have parking metres where 5c would get you about 20 minutes or so. There might still be places around the traps that use them, but in the cities it’s a printout docket or something you sit on your car dash. I don’t go to the city much if I can help it though.