The paper money here is really colorful. I commented on it to a cashier and she said that she took a vacation to America recently and she was very confused by the money. You always hear that from folks since our paper money is all one size and color. She also said, “That 5 cent coin, it’s so much bigger than the 10 cent”. I remember as a child feeling like that made no sense at all!
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A few cool things that I learned about Australian bills in my travels Down Undah that I'll share with your readers:
1. the smallest denomination bill is a five. But they do have one-dollar and two-dollar coins. The two-dollar coins are actually quite small.
2. as I understand it, the "paper" money is actually made partially from plastic. I could certainly imagine it was partly plastic when I handled it. The bills did not seem to age the same as American money. Even bills in circulation for many years seemed quite new.
3. each bill has a different translucent emblem in one corner. I suppose that the translucent corner might actually be the only plastic part, but to the touch it very much feels like a part of a single sheet.
The English-language wikipedia confirms that Australian bills are indeed plastic, or more precisely polymer biaxially-oriented polypropylene. Whatever that means.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_currency
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymer_banknotes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biaxially-oriented_polypropylene
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