American Money
 

Just a question to the Americans of the board
How does your money survive?
I have an American 1$ note in my wallet and my wallet recently got wet and now the note feels as if it will just tear up, so how does your mondey survuve rough conditions?

It doesn't, but as long as you've got scotch tape, most people will always take your money.

do you lose a lot of money if this is the case, and are 100$ notes the same material or do they get better in quality as they are worth more :D

You'd think so, but no. On both points actually. Although I will say, if you leave a dollar bill in your pockets and wash them with it in there by mistake, you do get a crisp, clean (and fully intact, mind you) dollar bill. So where is this wonderful place you come from that laminates their money anyways? :)

Australia of course, our notes are a weird plastic paper that are very hard to tear and forge.

Polymer series

 

 

The first polymer banknote, the 1988 Australian $10 note


In 1988, the Reserve Bank of Australia issued plastic, specifically polypropylene polymer banknotes (which were produced by Note Printing Australia), to commemorate the bicentenary of European settlement in Australia. These notes contained a transparent window with an optically variable image of Captain James Cook as a security feature. Australian banknotes were the first in the world to use such features.
Today all Australian notes are made of polymer.

Ah yes, actually I do remember that. This Austrailian guy I met on a plane coming back from Brazil showed it to me. It is quite durable, but I bet you can't fold your money to look like the twin towers blowing up like we can! :)

haha no no we cant..*looks arouind the room*....nope..
oh...but there is something else we can do...much better than any twin towers....how can i put it...A WHALE SUCKING A DICK!!

Touche.

never seen that one AA which note can you do it with

You have pretty money there in Australia. Canada's money is ugly.

Our money is green for envy.

it survives through ignorance

unfortunately there too many people that like those $1 bills that it prevents the complete transfer to dollar coins, the average life span of a dollar bill is under 6 months, while a coin can last over ten times as long according to their stats, a transfer that would save the treasury dept some 70 million dollars a year

i want more clink, and less flap

"You say we're like money in time / The way we fall and we can't stand up..."

Seems pretty durable when I wipe my ass with it.

Or swim in it like Scrooge McDuck.