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Message no. 1
From: Guardian <s777317@*******.GU.EDU.AU>
Subject: Plastic Money
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 10:02:45 +1000
> [Australian plastic money? really? I hadn't heard about that one, but
> then I'm not really into international news or any type of news for that
> matter...]

Yep. Can't be ripped (easily), can go thru the wash unharmed, and is
extremely hard to counterfeit atm. The Reserve Bank of Australia says
several countries are looking into buying the technology, including
England, Switzerland, Italy, Sweden, and, reportedly, the USA.

Guardian

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Message no. 2
From: Guardian <s777317@*******.GU.EDU.AU>
Subject: Re: Plastic Money
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 09:08:14 +1000
> > >Anyway, my point originally was that fake IDs would probably have a simple,
> > >yet effective way of keeping fakes from circulation. Just look at the
> > >Australian plastic money. Not ONE counterfeit note of that stuff has been
> > >found yet. IDs in 205x could have the same type of protection.
>
> Just a note, Adam - apparently there *have* been some forgeries - $5s,
> apparently.

From the original print run, yes. Before they introduced the small type
everywhere and the plastic window. Since then, everything's worked out.
For them, anyway. :)

Guardian

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Message no. 3
From: Tim P Cooper <z-i-m@****.COM>
Subject: Re: Plastic Money
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 19:37:02 EST
On Mon, 24 Feb 1997 10:02:45 +1000 Guardian writes:
>> [Australian plastic money? really? I hadn't heard about that one,
but
>> then I'm not really into international news or any type of news for
that
>> matter...]
>
>Yep. Can't be ripped (easily), can go thru the wash unharmed, and is
>extremely hard to counterfeit atm. The Reserve Bank of Australia says
>several countries are looking into buying the technology, including
>England, Switzerland, Italy, Sweden, and, reportedly, the USA.

Aaawwh... I was just getting used to our monopoly-style $100 dollar
bills, the water-marks and those cool removable blue & red threads in
the $20's.

~Tim
Message no. 4
From: Droopy <droopy@*******.NB.NET>
Subject: Re: Plastic Money
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 02:17:00 +0000
> From: Guardian <s777317@*******.GU.EDU.AU>
> Subject: Plastic Money

> Yep. Can't be ripped (easily), can go thru the wash unharmed, and is
> extremely hard to counterfeit atm. The Reserve Bank of Australia says

ANYthing can be copied. I'd guess that Austrailian money hasn't been
copied because the profit isn't there, not because it is hard to do.

> several countries are looking into buying the technology, including
> England, Switzerland, Italy, Sweden, and, reportedly, the USA.

The USA? ROFL....It's taken us how long to get a $100 that is almost
as hard to copy as every other country's money (meaning you have to
get fancier than just using a photocopier.)


--Droopy
droopy@**.net
Message no. 5
From: "M. Gotthard" <s457033@*******.GU.EDU.AU>
Subject: Re: Plastic Money
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 12:16:56 +1000
> > several countries are looking into buying the technology, including
> > England, Switzerland, Italy, Sweden, and, reportedly, the USA.
>
> The USA? ROFL....It's taken us how long to get a $100 that is almost
> as hard to copy as every other country's money (meaning you have to
> get fancier than just using a photocopier.)
>

Excuse me?? Sorry to pour shit upon the security of your currency, put
two years ago they fished a suitcase full of countefeit American $100 bills
out of a creek two Km from my house....

I live in Australia, and used to live in what is as close to a slum as we
get.... Now, if counterfeit money is turning up *here* then it can't be
too secure.

Apparently Amercian cash is the counterfeiters currency of choice,
because it's so easy to do, and is accepted in so many places.

Bleach
Message no. 6
From: Mike Elkins <MikeE@*********.COM>
Subject: Re: Plastic Money -Reply
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 10:46:42 -0500
>> The USA? ROFL....It's taken us how long to get a $100 that is almost
>> as hard to copy as every other country's money (meaning you have to
>> get fancier than just using a photocopier.)
>>
>
>Excuse me?? Sorry to pour shit upon the security of your currency, put two
>years ago they fished a suitcase full of countefeit American $100 bills out of a
>creek two Km from my house....

Exactly the original posters point. We got a new design for the $100 bill late last
year.

Double-Domed Mike

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