New vertical bank note

Here's what vertically oriented U.S. currency could look like.

The designs in the article linked in R2 are actually pretty good.

Currency should look like currency, not an advertisement or a propaganda exercise.

R3 - Oh, like this propaganda - Why oh why, does a country that has a constitution separating church and state, allow 'In God We Trust'?

I wish the USA would get new bills and have different colors for different denominations.

R5 Now that's a sensible move. But we don't need Justin 'Cry-Baby' Trudeau's propaganda here.

The USA is a fusty place that is very change averse. We still don't use metric. Our infrastructure blows. We'll keep our cruddy old money designs and aged trains, thank you very much.

This is the right orientation to use in cash registers. . .

Here are some colorful US banknotes from 1869.

IIRC, the Euro uses different sizes for different denominations. It’s supposed to help blind people to be able to identify the different denomination.

R6: Oh poor little racist, mad that whitey isn't on one stupid bill? Fuck off.

R6 is complaining that the new unknown woman is no one that Canadians have ever heard of.

If you’re in the UK, Canada, or Australia, you may notice that their banknotes are more “slippery” than US notes. I wrote a college paper about it, about 1982. I contacted the engineers at DuPont to ask about the application of their product towards use in banknotes.

US bank notes only last a few years before they are taken out of circulation and destroyed. It costs a billion dollars to destroy decrepit notes, per year. So, even though my idea is much more expensive, it need only to add a couple years to the use-life of a typical note to be worth it.

As it happens, DuPont engineers apparently started working on my idea right away. It’s now used in many countries world wide.

I got nothing for it, of course. I still have the college paper I wrote in the matter, too.

R11: So learn about her.

R11 I'm Canadian and I've never heard of her. But I almost never use cash, so don't give a fuck.

Canada Notes

Some background info on Viola Desmond.

All Canadian banknotes feature former prime ministers, save for the twenty, which has the Queen on it. Boring. Viola Desmond is a refreshing change. Odd to get rid of Macdonald, though.

These new notes are a great advance in Humankind ! ! ! ! !

Is this new woman a genuine Cis?

Or are they a Terf?

How did Justin choose this person?

R19: He made sure it would piss off a bunch of alt-right trolls on a gay message board who are racist as fuck and secretly get off to porn videos of big burly black leather daddies spanking white twinks, wishing they were the one getting their creamy ass tanned passionate red. That's how.

But, how could Justin have any input into this bank note? According to the Canadian deplorables on this site, he's always on vacation, or in another country at a conference. He never works. . .

Just back from Montreal. I had only $20 and $50 bills. They are slick as snot! They feel like slippery plastic.

I wish they would have placed a Quebecois blowing his load on to a beaver pelt on the new currency. Oh well, there is always next time.

They're so slippery they slip out of your pocket.

I read about Viola. Some call her the Rosa Parks of Canada.

I wonder how these notes will fair in a clothes dryer? Old notes are made of linen, not paper. That’s why they can survive a cycle in the washer/dryer, just like clothing.

That slipperiness in the new notes is from plastic blended in with the linen. And we know that plastic melts at high temperature.

Canadian banknotes are tested to withstand 140ºC. Clothes dryers do not come anywhere near that temperature.

What's the fuss? How much longer are we going to use paper notes, anyway? Everything I buy is an electronic transaction. Except for my drug dealer and the pool boy.

R25, those people would be wrong. Rosa Parks is the Viola Desmond of the US.

Is Viola Desmond related to Norma Desmond?

R26 - The current banknotes are made from a polymer material. I've never heard of linen being used at any time with bank notes.

BTW, one more reason to get rid of Trump: Harriet Tubman on a $20 bill. Of course, it's "backburnered" by Mr. Charlottesville.

Image of both sides of the new $10. It really is a beautiful bill.

R31, US currency is made from cotton (75%) and linen (25%). Most paper is made from wood pulp.

R9, all countries apart from the US and Canada use different sizes for different denominations to help people with visual impairments tell them apart.

The U.S. banknotes will never undergo a serious redesign. It would give Trump, and people like Trump, yet another thing to wail about ---- the damn liberals trying to ruin America and other nonsense like that. Demagogues all.

R35 the new polymer Canadian bills also feature Braille characters for the visually impaired.

Thank you, R31, and all. Somehow I thought they used a linen-polymer blend, not all polymer.

R33 What is that purple squidgy thing on the back?

And that's a streak of mustard?

R33 - Canadian Museum of Human Rights

An eagle feather

Australia already has a note in repellent mustard colour.

As an American, I like the fact that our bills are "boring" When I was in London this summer, the different sizes and colors just made me nervous about attracting attention. Someone can look at a roll of pounds and know by the size and color roughly how much you have. A wad of American cash? You have no idea if I have a pile of singles or 100s. I'll stick with boring.

American notes aren’t boring, they have gravitas.

The great advantage about the polymer notes is you can wash them and avoid other peoples' diseases.

I hate nose-pickers!

yes, I prefer USA bills. Fuck the foreign notes. and they feel so fake and worthless. it's plastic! and see thru in some places!

Justin says we need a new cervical bank note.

R46 - Gawd, why are so many of you Americans averse to ANY change? Have you ever taken the time to notice, you're becoming a more and more a backwards nation, in so many aspects? It costs you billions to collect and destroy, and reprint your short lived paper money, your notes are all a similar colour, and size, and hard to distinguish from one another, and lack many high tech security features that 'plastic' money allows to be incorporated. And they look like they're still from 1869. For starters.

Yet, you cling to them, because it's what you're comfortable with. Like your for profit health care, and your tipping culture. Oh, and your for profit prisons, and your refusal to adopt to the metric system, and, and, and. . .

R1 The link refers to paper the design of paper currency as industrial design. Shouldn't that be graphic design, since it's in print and in 2-d? Industrial design applies to things like toasters, refrigerators, furniture, consumer electronics, etc.

R49 They probably call it industrial design because it's high in technology but low in aesthetics.

I think Britain had some poll as to whom should be represented on their note. But it looks as though childish Justin made an executive decision to what woman we will be obliged to handle and place in our pockets for the decades ahead.

R50 - Just be glad Rebel Media doesn't get to choose, or you'd be obliged to handle and place Steven Harper in your pocket for decades. Ewww.

Why do so many of you think Justin Trudeau had any input into this design? There's absolutely no indication of this anywhere. From my limited research, the Governor of the Bank of Canada, Stephen Poloz, makes the final decision.

But a thread like this is a good opportunity for the shills at Rebel Media to bash the Liberals, and specifically, Justin Trudeau.

It would be one way a President could make a splash that lasts 100 years, if he chooses a design wisely. I think the current design is essentially from 1929, though I know it was tweeted recently.

Why don’t they update the $1 note? It’s probably the most used note, and it hasn’t changed.