Canadian cash to do away with paper {It's not what you think} (CNN)

[eppur_se_muova]

"Paper or plastic?" That question isn't asked frequently at grocery stores anymore, but it may be poised for a comeback – at Canadian banks.

The Bank of Canada will start issuing high-tech currency made of polymers instead of the traditional cotton paper and featuring transparent windows (one shaped like a maple leaf) to frustrate counterfeiters.

Security and verification features include raised ink in the numerals and the featured portrait, color-shifting images embedded in the large window, and a number hidden in the maple-leaf window.

Watch a video demonstrating the security features

"Our mandate at the Bank of Canada is to make sure Canadians can use these notes with confidence," bank spokeswoman Julie Girard said.

The first note to be issued will be the $100 bill, scheduled for November. Those will be followed by a $50 note in March and $20 note later in 2012. The $10 and $5 bills will come out by the end of 2013.
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more: http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/06/21/canadian-cash-to-do-away-with-paper/?&hpt=hp_c2

[Scuba]

1. Why that's just...... ............... ................. .................. looney!

[Bluenorthwest]

2. Hong Kong has these or something like them.

Money can actually be laundered, in your pants, and come out nothing but cleaner.

[BlueJazz]

3. Australian money is like that.

[eppur_se_muova]

4. Candy wrappers! With pre-printed prices! nt

[BlueJazz]

5. I also like the fact that the bills are all different sizes. (helps the blind)

:)

[applegrove]

6. They have to change all the bank machines.