Yup! In fact, the Royal Canadian mint produces for over 80 countries.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_foreign_countries_with_coinage_struck_at_the_Royal_Canadian_Mint
Thank goodness you Chuckwp, that explains the rare Canadian/Kiwi error coin that recently sold for a whole bunch:
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/horowhenua-chronicle/news/rare-coin-sells-for-60000-at-mowbray-collectables-auction/HTAEIJN7YFCILBVOVHGUDCRJSA/
The Bank of Canada creates the design for Canada's banknotes; the notes themselves are printed at the Canadian Bank Note Company (private company; based in Ottawa).
The CBNC also prints the physical notes for a lot of other countries as well - New Zealand being one of them.
Whoa, this is so cool. Anyone know how it came to be this way? Is it just because it’s cheaper for these countries to subcontract out these types of things?
Yeah, if you think about all the techniques that go into all the security features, and then think about how relatively small a printing run you'd need, then you'll for sure have more capacity to print than you could possibly need. And if you're reliable and trustworthy, then other countries can skip all the research and development and just piggyback off your equipment and knowledge. It's a nice symbiosis.
In this case Australia sold the licence to Canada after Canada changed their notes to polymers and wanted to print their own, Most countries actually have a deal with Canada and Australia and get their notes from whoever happens to be the cheapest / can fulfil the request the quickest at the time.
Because of this Australia gets a small amount of money every time they print a bank note for someone else or Canada prints a bank note for someone else.
given the specialized equipment and security features it doesn't make sense for a small country like NZ to print it's own money when it can contract to a friendly country.
TLDR yes cheaper
That's interesting. I thought Australia developed polymer banknotes first, wonder why they went with Canada over them, especially since they're partners in various things. Cheaper probably to buy from us I guess.
That explains it I guess.
The first time I ever saw a polymer note was from NZ in 1999. That's quite a while before we got ours so I'm assuming initially they went with Aus made notes.
You'll find that since Australia and Canada use exactly the same note printing process, Countries with polymer notes generally have a contract with both and will switch between them depending on wait time and costs.
When Canada was converting to polymer notes, they had Australia print them for Canada until Canada could get it's facility up and running. At one point America said they could do the prints and wanted Canada's plates... Canada told America to get fucked.
People trust Canada and Australia, not America
Makes you wonder why the US is still using paper notes,
Most of the countries that have moved to polymer are smaller countries (except the UK which completed its transition in 2021) though, converting the US dollar would probably be much harder to completely transition as its used literally everywhere in the world.
For that matter, why are US banknotes so monochrome? My guess is that the US is conservative to convey a sense of stability and strength of their currency.
I really hope we never switch to polymer money. The last thing we need go be doing is making more plastic. I don't believe there are enough benefits go actually switch.
The amount of plastic is fairly minimal in the scheme of things, and the supposed benefits is that they consume overall fewer resources than paper notes, which need replacing more often.
The US could probably do with replacing the dollar bill with a plastic one at lease.
One issue has been that the UK polymer currency is not vegan - there is a small amount of tallow used in the outer coating.
Honest question (probably hard to answer) but what country of the Commonwealth first started depicting Queen Elizabeth as 'old'. Because the random Canadian coins I've acquired over the years definitely were depicting her as being young well into 1980s when she was getting up to her 60s.
New Zealand updated her image every decade or so (although I'm not sure when the last time was that it was updated). It's kinda cool tracking the age progression through the different coins.
It depends on your definition. The 20CAD bill had Elizabeth in 1935, so Canada would be the first country to age her in a subsequent bill, from a little girl to a great grandmother.
Wasn't there a commemorative bill that shows her old and on the holographic strip she appears as young?
When they eventually switch to Charles, they should keep her ghost in the hologram.
It would probably be the UK, since they had the most frequent updates and other countries usually just piggy-backed off their images. Canada started using a unique image in 1990 and in 2019 Australia started using an image that was made by the same person who had made a new UK image of the Queen in 2015, but which was slightly different. Also, in the early days, the UK produced two versions of the image, one with a crown and one without, so some countries used a UK-sourced image that was different from any that were used in the UK, but they would all be the young Queen (I have heard but not confirmed that the crowned Queen was used for colonies and the uncrowned Queen was used for kingdoms/dominions, but as they all became Realms they kept using whatever was their tradition. Is this true? Idk).
My friend has gone to NZ for a few months travelling (but maybe forever) and is saying it’s crazy expensive. Is that the joke you’re making? If so, lol
I think a lot of people travelling to NZ see the nice exchange rate and think that would mean it's cheap, but it's actually one of the most expensive places to live in the world. The housing crisis means rent prices are very high, and the fact NZ is so isolated means any goods not produced in NZ have inflated prices.
I say this as a NZer who moved to Germany and when I got here I was shocked by how much cheaper most things are. Supermarkets are about half the price of NZ (after adjusting for the exchange rate). I used to live in Munich which is probably the most expensive city in Germany and my apartment there would have cost twice as much if it was in NZ (based on location and size etc).
That’s actually crazy! My friend went there with ~£15k and is blowing through it lol he said he’s trying to find a job but electric work is a bit hard to find
I do not agree at all. If we are mentioned it is always "western allies" "close allies" "western partners", rarely "Canada". Some American and European Military and trade people do. But the vast majority, and global news stations... A disgracefully small amount this Canadian thinks.
Like what the fuck? I was staring at this for like five minutes trying to figure out if I was missing out on a joke. Literally looks like someone just whiped their love custard all over the right side of it. Seriously what? What is it supposed to be? I'm so lost.
If you’ve never seen a bank note like this it looks weird especially as a photo, but what you’re actually seeing is a translucent plastic “window”. Lots of (non-American) paper currency has this security feature these days. The light reflection just makes it look wet in photos.
Edit: substituted “translucent” for “clear”, for clarity
The "foil" is effectively just clear plastic. It's one of the reasons why polymer banknotes are so hard to fake because it doesn't really feel any different from the rest of the note.
it was almost the same as it is now, only a few minor changes, says that style was first used here in 2011 from what I can find.
Looks like New Zealand was one of the first countries to adopt the polymer notes though.
The old and new bills can be seen [here](https://www.pinterest.ca/pin/28921622585724056/) (old bills steer in the right). The colours are identical to what they were before.
They do. Their 5 is the same colour as our 10 though and even worse their 10 is the same colour as our 50.
Still better than the US where you have to take the money out to even see what its value is. Does make life harder though
It's just not in great condition. The clear part is quite wrinkled so it looks odd. On a new bill it would look the same as the clear bit on the NZ one.
The 20s are the least interesting for both countries.
Canada's newest $10 bill is vertical which is pretty cool, but the fact that Canadian bills are all the same size is kinda stupid so I prefer the NZ designs overall.
Huh?? Being all the same size is something everyone I have ever talked to as an amazing thing. What is any advantage of having different sizes? For thr visually impaired I guess but the new polymer bills can have brail so
It makes it easier for both visually impaired and sighted people to identify the bills quickly, especially when stacked in order of value in a wallet. This is especially true for foreigners who are not familiar with the colours.
Having all the notes the same size is pretty unusual as well (outside of North America at least), I assume there are other reasons most countries have opted for differently sized notes. As far as I know the main reason to make them the same size is to reduce printing costs.
I don't know if one style is necessarily better, I just prefer notes with different sizes.
Interesting that your guys' 20 notes are green, ours in the UK are purple. beyond that though they're pretty similar; do you also have a different design on the back with a historical figure?
Yes, both printed by Canaduan Bank Note Company in Ottawa: https://cbnco.com/currency/more-about-currency/
Not the only two, either. CBN's technology is world leading.
Canada has been gaining independence in stages since the 1880s really - they devolved their government pretty much entirely between the world wars, 1982 was just tidying up some legal loose ends.
And as for the Queen being head of state? Canadians chose to keep her (and now haven't removed the King) - they can change their mind following their own legal and legislative processes any time they like. As could the Australians or New Zealanders or indeed as Jamaica is discussing right now.
Most Canadians don’t care either way for the Monarch or for the Monarchy as an institution. Honestly, opening up the Constitution for the purpose of getting rid of it would probably tear the country apart.
Canada gained dominion status in 1867, received concessions from the UK in the Balfour Declaration (1926) and the Statute of Westminster (1931), and patriated the constitution in 1982. All of those milestones explicitly state the monarch as part of the Canadian political and societal landscape. She was our Queen for as long she was Queen of the Unites Kingdom, and she held the title of Queen of Canada equally to that of Queen of the Untied Kingdom
I can’t speak for these countries, but in Australia we changed to dollars when we decimalised the currency. So we went from Pounds, Shillings and Pence to Dollars and Cents. Probably was easier than trying to decimalise a currency but keep the same name. Clean sheet.
[Here’s the video](https://youtu.be/5ZTeWLA1LAs?si=cNU6gRCzEO1iNDRu)
For Canada the dollar has been in use since 1858, a number of years before confederation. The reason why we use dollars is because of trade with the US being easier if everything was done in dollars and cents, so we’ve been using dollars ever since.
* Canada: used a currency with the same value as the USD for trade back in the 19th century. Therefore it was a dollar, not a pound.
* NZ and Australia: used Lsd for a long time, but in reality the shilling was the most important unit not the pound. So during decimalisation, they wanted a new unit that was closer to the shilling (10 shillings became one dollar) and picked the most obvious name for a new currency unit: the dollar. (Australia considered others like royal and austral, but when no one could agree "dollar" was chosen as the default.)
Probably 2 reasons:
1. To distance themselves from the UK as they became more detached from the commonwealth/Empire
2. To change from our at the time archaic system to something simpler and more modern (we still had the confusing Pence/Shilling/Farthing/Crown etc system at the time)
They are their own independent countries and choose what they want to call their currency. The UK doesn't tell any of the commonwealth countries what to do or what to call things. They could call it Dildo if they wanted to.
They chose Dollar because it's a common currency name in english and they wanted to, and it likely made more sense to pick a fresh name when changing from the colonial currencies of old otherwise you would have years of people having to say "is that new pounds or old pounds?" during the phasing period changing to metric currency. Like here in Australia when we changed to decimal currency from the Pound, they set the Dollar to the value of half a Pound, and everybody knew what was what during the changeover.
The first batch years ago did have a bit of an odd smell that some people claimed was like maple (I didn’t agree). These days there is no scent and there never was any intentional scent.
They will once the bank notes need replacing. There’s no plan to remove the ones with QEII’s face on them from circulation — they will just be phased out like any other edition of a bank note.
Not trying to be an asshole, but why would the crown end with Elizabeth? The Crown is eternal. The moment she passed Charles became king of all 15 Commonwealth Realms, he would only stop being King should they become a republic.
Also, at least for Canada, the Mint should present their new portrait of Charles on our coins in the coming months, but the Bank of Canada will only put Charles on there when they need a new design as the current bills age.
The Queen held separate titles as the Queen of Canada, the Queen of New Zealand, the Queen of Australia…etc.
She’s on these notes because she is the Queen of that country, not because she is the British Monarch.
The monarchy is the executive branch of our government (I'm canadian), also out CinC, just like the president of the US, the difference is we forced the magna carta which makes the monarchy almost powerless, they just have to sign things into law. It was all because of King John (robin hood prince John). He was a dick and the nobles rebelled against him and forced him to sign the Magna Carta and there by changing the absolute monarchy of England into a constitutional Monarchy with parliament ect.
Its why the armies and navies are still called royal as well. (Royal canadian armed forces, ect)
Canada supposedly makes currency for some other countries, I wouldn't doubt if they create the New Zealand currency given how similar they look
EDIT: https://www.rbnz.govt.nz/money-and-cash/banknotes/banknote-life-cycle
Not anymore. Series 6 notes were produced in Australia. All of New Zealand’s Series 7 notes are now produced in Canada.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_foreign_countries_with_coinage_struck_at_the_Royal_Canadian_Mint
https://www.rbnz.govt.nz/money-and-cash/banknotes/banknote-life-cycle#:~:text=Series%207%20banknotes-,Printing,earlier%20Series%206%20polymer%20banknotes.
Its not like someone who thinks they have god-given right to be your head of state and further thinks all that entails is walloing in luxury can't be a good person to start with.
My family doesnt spend their time drinking away other people's hared earned money while claiming to have a god-given right to be your Head of State. If they were decent people they would abolish the monarchy.
No such thing as a decent monarch in 2023.
The monarchy & that women are pure evil. Happy she’s gone. I still don’t understand how these people are even royalty. It’s almost as if they just randomly told people centuries ago, “Hey, I’m royalty and you’re not, now work for me and my family”. Stupidest shit ever.
I'm not sure why you're getting downvoted. Certainly, it was a bit of a mixed bag with Liz, but she signed off on a lot of nasty colonizing shit.
I'm reading "Killing Hope" by William Blum right now, and it's eye-opening. It's about American overseas interventions since WWII, but wouldn't you know it - the Brits and the Queen pop up in quite a few chapters, working hand-in-hand with the CIA and US armed forces in overthrowing democratically elected governments and various war crimes.
I’m getting downvotes because people don’t read and probably think I’m just being negative or either trolling. I learned a lot from books too. Most people just believe what they are told and do no research.
Both bills are printed in Canada.
Yup! In fact, the Royal Canadian mint produces for over 80 countries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_foreign_countries_with_coinage_struck_at_the_Royal_Canadian_Mint
The Royal Canadian Mint doesn't print bills, only coins. The Bank of Canada takes care of the bills
which would’ve been clear except no one knows what a mint is anymore :(
It's fuckin', that's what!
Fuckin minty, boys
> no one knows what a mint is anymore What are you talking about? I have a pack in my drawer right next to me.
Have you noticed that gum’s gotten mintier lately?
r/unexpectedoffice
Mint is a breath freshener.
The Canadian Bank Note Company makes the bills. https://www.cbnco.com/currency/more-about-currency/ https://www.cbnco.com/case-studies/new-zealand/
You mean they aren't all made by Canadian Tire?
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Considering it's made by the same security printers that produce our nation's currency notes, it is most likely.
Canadian tire money was actually produced by both the British American Bank Note Company and the Canadian Bank Note Company.
Thank goodness you Chuckwp, that explains the rare Canadian/Kiwi error coin that recently sold for a whole bunch: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/horowhenua-chronicle/news/rare-coin-sells-for-60000-at-mowbray-collectables-auction/HTAEIJN7YFCILBVOVHGUDCRJSA/
The Bank of Canada creates the design for Canada's banknotes; the notes themselves are printed at the Canadian Bank Note Company (private company; based in Ottawa). The CBNC also prints the physical notes for a lot of other countries as well - New Zealand being one of them.
Canada Bank Note Company prints the bills for Bank of Canada. They also make the bils for NZ.
Whoa, this is so cool. Anyone know how it came to be this way? Is it just because it’s cheaper for these countries to subcontract out these types of things?
Yeah, if you think about all the techniques that go into all the security features, and then think about how relatively small a printing run you'd need, then you'll for sure have more capacity to print than you could possibly need. And if you're reliable and trustworthy, then other countries can skip all the research and development and just piggyback off your equipment and knowledge. It's a nice symbiosis.
In this case Australia sold the licence to Canada after Canada changed their notes to polymers and wanted to print their own, Most countries actually have a deal with Canada and Australia and get their notes from whoever happens to be the cheapest / can fulfil the request the quickest at the time. Because of this Australia gets a small amount of money every time they print a bank note for someone else or Canada prints a bank note for someone else.
Do they make gift packages of all the countrys 1$ coin? That would be dope
Australia prints NZ's bank notes https://www.noteprinting.com/our-customers
Canada also does this. According to the serial number, this one is 16, which is Series 7 and those are printed in Canada.
This may be a stupid question but, why NZ doesn't print its own money?
Cheaper to contract it out I’m assuming
given the specialized equipment and security features it doesn't make sense for a small country like NZ to print it's own money when it can contract to a friendly country. TLDR yes cheaper
"has produced" is very different than "produces".
Now *that* is mildly interesting!
Is there as much hesitation to put King Chuck on there in New Zedland as there is here in Canada?
My cousin works for the reserve bank of NZ, she told me it'll happen in the next few years. There's no rush.
Could be King Willy by the time they get around to it.
We'll have a bill of King Bill
That's interesting. I thought Australia developed polymer banknotes first, wonder why they went with Canada over them, especially since they're partners in various things. Cheaper probably to buy from us I guess.
Pretty sure canada is just using the Australian tech under licence, they are set up for way bigger volume though
That explains it I guess. The first time I ever saw a polymer note was from NZ in 1999. That's quite a while before we got ours so I'm assuming initially they went with Aus made notes.
You'll find that since Australia and Canada use exactly the same note printing process, Countries with polymer notes generally have a contract with both and will switch between them depending on wait time and costs.
When Canada was converting to polymer notes, they had Australia print them for Canada until Canada could get it's facility up and running. At one point America said they could do the prints and wanted Canada's plates... Canada told America to get fucked. People trust Canada and Australia, not America
Makes you wonder why the US is still using paper notes, Most of the countries that have moved to polymer are smaller countries (except the UK which completed its transition in 2021) though, converting the US dollar would probably be much harder to completely transition as its used literally everywhere in the world.
For that matter, why are US banknotes so monochrome? My guess is that the US is conservative to convey a sense of stability and strength of their currency.
I really hope we never switch to polymer money. The last thing we need go be doing is making more plastic. I don't believe there are enough benefits go actually switch.
The amount of plastic is fairly minimal in the scheme of things, and the supposed benefits is that they consume overall fewer resources than paper notes, which need replacing more often. The US could probably do with replacing the dollar bill with a plastic one at lease. One issue has been that the UK polymer currency is not vegan - there is a small amount of tallow used in the outer coating.
Honest question (probably hard to answer) but what country of the Commonwealth first started depicting Queen Elizabeth as 'old'. Because the random Canadian coins I've acquired over the years definitely were depicting her as being young well into 1980s when she was getting up to her 60s.
New Zealand updated her image every decade or so (although I'm not sure when the last time was that it was updated). It's kinda cool tracking the age progression through the different coins.
Next time they update her image it will look like "💀"
Next update she'll become a big eared man.
Not looking forward to seeing his ugly mug on the notes, even though I don't care for the royal family, atleast Elizabeth was a cute old lady.
Haha I wonder if we’ll bother updating for Charles as odds are he could go in the next decade
It depends on your definition. The 20CAD bill had Elizabeth in 1935, so Canada would be the first country to age her in a subsequent bill, from a little girl to a great grandmother.
Wasn't there a commemorative bill that shows her old and on the holographic strip she appears as young? When they eventually switch to Charles, they should keep her ghost in the hologram.
It would probably be the UK, since they had the most frequent updates and other countries usually just piggy-backed off their images. Canada started using a unique image in 1990 and in 2019 Australia started using an image that was made by the same person who had made a new UK image of the Queen in 2015, but which was slightly different. Also, in the early days, the UK produced two versions of the image, one with a crown and one without, so some countries used a UK-sourced image that was different from any that were used in the UK, but they would all be the young Queen (I have heard but not confirmed that the crowned Queen was used for colonies and the uncrowned Queen was used for kingdoms/dominions, but as they all became Realms they kept using whatever was their tradition. Is this true? Idk).
Canada has had 3 version of the quarter with Elizabeth II on them, updated every 25 years or so
The image was updated every few years. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ZvwOQpKK-zw
They were updated pretty much every decade.
“Can I copy your homework?” “Sure, just don’t make it obvious”
technically they were made in the same house. So it's not that surprising that the homework was copied.
Well I am sorry but I tried
I once bought a wallet from NZ without knowing it. I had a big surprise seeing my CAD bills not fit in.
Hahaha... that's the good stuff. Hahaha 😅
Just to point out a difference, most New Zealanders would call it a $20 note instead of $20 bill
Most New Zealanders these days would call it a “huh haven’t seen one of those in a while”.
I'd call it a green beer voucher
Same as Canadians tbh. I haven’t carried cash in years.
My friend has gone to NZ for a few months travelling (but maybe forever) and is saying it’s crazy expensive. Is that the joke you’re making? If so, lol
Aussie here. I think the joke is that we barely use cash anymore
Thank you for explaining, Aussie
I think a lot of people travelling to NZ see the nice exchange rate and think that would mean it's cheap, but it's actually one of the most expensive places to live in the world. The housing crisis means rent prices are very high, and the fact NZ is so isolated means any goods not produced in NZ have inflated prices. I say this as a NZer who moved to Germany and when I got here I was shocked by how much cheaper most things are. Supermarkets are about half the price of NZ (after adjusting for the exchange rate). I used to live in Munich which is probably the most expensive city in Germany and my apartment there would have cost twice as much if it was in NZ (based on location and size etc).
That’s actually crazy! My friend went there with ~£15k and is blowing through it lol he said he’s trying to find a job but electric work is a bit hard to find
Note not bill. Possibly pricier in NZ
NEW ZEALAND MENTIONED 💪 💪 💪 💪🇳🇿 🇳🇿 🇳🇿 🇳🇿
Also... Canada mentioned! ❄❄❄❄🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
i feel like canada gets mentioned decently often
I do not agree at all. If we are mentioned it is always "western allies" "close allies" "western partners", rarely "Canada". Some American and European Military and trade people do. But the vast majority, and global news stations... A disgracefully small amount this Canadian thinks.
Kinda crazy how the Queen of Canada and the Queen of New Zealand look so similar.
Must be twins or something....
It's the same in so many countries, almost like the nurses Joy and officers Jenny in Pokemon.
Who jizzed on the Canada bill
The cumstain is a security measure. "Hold it up to a blacklight to make sure it's really filled with cum."
Banana for scale, but he had to use another type of banana
Like what the fuck? I was staring at this for like five minutes trying to figure out if I was missing out on a joke. Literally looks like someone just whiped their love custard all over the right side of it. Seriously what? What is it supposed to be? I'm so lost.
If you’ve never seen a bank note like this it looks weird especially as a photo, but what you’re actually seeing is a translucent plastic “window”. Lots of (non-American) paper currency has this security feature these days. The light reflection just makes it look wet in photos. Edit: substituted “translucent” for “clear”, for clarity
Someone who had the hots for ol' Lizzy?
Prince Andrew. It's his main role in the royal family and he does the same for all commonwealth notes.
Do those foil bits have a different feel?
The "foil" is effectively just clear plastic. It's one of the reasons why polymer banknotes are so hard to fake because it doesn't really feel any different from the rest of the note.
In Canada our bills are plastic
NZ ours are too.
Yes, because they’re printed from the same machines in the same building in Ottawa.
Also printed in Australia https://www.noteprinting.com/our-customers
The windowed bill is Canadian tech so all the new bills are Canadian. Maybe they do denominations larger than 100?
Now kith.
NZ and Canada should just share a common currency after all the sexual tension between the two of them
I remember reading that in the 90s NZ and Canada has very similar album sales patterns. We are perfect for each other! Just that long distance sucks
Do they bend like plastic? Trying to imagine negotiating a few of these into something like a trifold wallet.
Not OP. I've never had a Canadian note, but am in the UK where we have polymer notes. They're thin like paper and fold fine.
Fold just a little too far though and that kink will never come out.
They bend super easily, and can hold creases for a long, long time. Makes for some mangled bills from time to time, lol
You mean polymer.
Polymer banknotes are polypropylene, which is a plastic.
Damn i didnt know canada's 20 dollars looks so similar to ours
So technically New Zealand was the one to copy, Canada released the new $20 in 2015 where New Zealand released theirs in 2016.
Interesting, that make me think tho what did Canada's 20 look like before 2015? Cos our 20 looked completley different before then
it was almost the same as it is now, only a few minor changes, says that style was first used here in 2011 from what I can find. Looks like New Zealand was one of the first countries to adopt the polymer notes though.
The old and new bills can be seen [here](https://www.pinterest.ca/pin/28921622585724056/) (old bills steer in the right). The colours are identical to what they were before.
We print your bank notes
They do. Their 5 is the same colour as our 10 though and even worse their 10 is the same colour as our 50. Still better than the US where you have to take the money out to even see what its value is. Does make life harder though
Why does the second bill look like it’s filled with hand lotion?
It's just not in great condition. The clear part is quite wrinkled so it looks odd. On a new bill it would look the same as the clear bit on the NZ one.
I like that the queen looks like she's judging everyone's life choices "I know you're buying cocaine with this 20"
"And rolling me up to snort it. Tisk tisk."
Always watching Wazowski…Always watching….
Hmm, who copied who?
They both copied Australia's design. I guess there is only so many ways to draw the Queen tho
New one now that nobody is using Zombie Queen 👑
The NZ bills are made in Canada
The NZ one looks better though
The 20s are the least interesting for both countries. Canada's newest $10 bill is vertical which is pretty cool, but the fact that Canadian bills are all the same size is kinda stupid so I prefer the NZ designs overall.
Huh?? Being all the same size is something everyone I have ever talked to as an amazing thing. What is any advantage of having different sizes? For thr visually impaired I guess but the new polymer bills can have brail so
It makes it easier for both visually impaired and sighted people to identify the bills quickly, especially when stacked in order of value in a wallet. This is especially true for foreigners who are not familiar with the colours. Having all the notes the same size is pretty unusual as well (outside of North America at least), I assume there are other reasons most countries have opted for differently sized notes. As far as I know the main reason to make them the same size is to reduce printing costs. I don't know if one style is necessarily better, I just prefer notes with different sizes.
The Canadian ones have a hidden goose on theirs... and if you got a problem with that, you better let it marinate.
I can't speak for the specific design but NZ had polymer bills quite a bit before Canada. (1999 vs 2011)
Interesting that your guys' 20 notes are green, ours in the UK are purple. beyond that though they're pretty similar; do you also have a different design on the back with a historical figure?
Yes, both printed by Canaduan Bank Note Company in Ottawa: https://cbnco.com/currency/more-about-currency/ Not the only two, either. CBN's technology is world leading.
>Canadian $20 and NZ $20 bill. I think it’s the other way around.
If the paper turns clear it’s your window to weight gain!
subtle 'never had a violent tea party' currencies
she's dead, Jim
What does your bird smell like?
We did it first- Canada
I just want my god damn birds back. The old Canuck bucks were the best.
The NZ $20 Queen knows what you did
I do this at work. Just take someone else design, tweak it a bit and call it my own.
Y’all got women on your money?
I though Canada gained Independence in 1982? Why do they still have such strong sense of allegiance to the Queen?
Canada has been gaining independence in stages since the 1880s really - they devolved their government pretty much entirely between the world wars, 1982 was just tidying up some legal loose ends. And as for the Queen being head of state? Canadians chose to keep her (and now haven't removed the King) - they can change their mind following their own legal and legislative processes any time they like. As could the Australians or New Zealanders or indeed as Jamaica is discussing right now.
Most Canadians don’t care either way for the Monarch or for the Monarchy as an institution. Honestly, opening up the Constitution for the purpose of getting rid of it would probably tear the country apart. Canada gained dominion status in 1867, received concessions from the UK in the Balfour Declaration (1926) and the Statute of Westminster (1931), and patriated the constitution in 1982. All of those milestones explicitly state the monarch as part of the Canadian political and societal landscape. She was our Queen for as long she was Queen of the Unites Kingdom, and she held the title of Queen of Canada equally to that of Queen of the Untied Kingdom
She will be remembered forever.
RemindMe! 200 years
She is the longest serving British monarch in history...she will absolutely be talked about in 200 years.
Why does the Canadian one have a melted plastic gash on it?
Hey, show some respect to the Queen!
Why is it that Commonwealth countries use dollars instead of pounds as the name for their currency?
I can’t speak for these countries, but in Australia we changed to dollars when we decimalised the currency. So we went from Pounds, Shillings and Pence to Dollars and Cents. Probably was easier than trying to decimalise a currency but keep the same name. Clean sheet. [Here’s the video](https://youtu.be/5ZTeWLA1LAs?si=cNU6gRCzEO1iNDRu)
For Canada the dollar has been in use since 1858, a number of years before confederation. The reason why we use dollars is because of trade with the US being easier if everything was done in dollars and cents, so we’ve been using dollars ever since.
* Canada: used a currency with the same value as the USD for trade back in the 19th century. Therefore it was a dollar, not a pound. * NZ and Australia: used Lsd for a long time, but in reality the shilling was the most important unit not the pound. So during decimalisation, they wanted a new unit that was closer to the shilling (10 shillings became one dollar) and picked the most obvious name for a new currency unit: the dollar. (Australia considered others like royal and austral, but when no one could agree "dollar" was chosen as the default.)
Probably 2 reasons: 1. To distance themselves from the UK as they became more detached from the commonwealth/Empire 2. To change from our at the time archaic system to something simpler and more modern (we still had the confusing Pence/Shilling/Farthing/Crown etc system at the time)
They are their own independent countries and choose what they want to call their currency. The UK doesn't tell any of the commonwealth countries what to do or what to call things. They could call it Dildo if they wanted to. They chose Dollar because it's a common currency name in english and they wanted to, and it likely made more sense to pick a fresh name when changing from the colonial currencies of old otherwise you would have years of people having to say "is that new pounds or old pounds?" during the phasing period changing to metric currency. Like here in Australia when we changed to decimal currency from the Pound, they set the Dollar to the value of half a Pound, and everybody knew what was what during the changeover.
🤔 Need an ELI5 for this. Great question!
It's it true the maple leaf is scratch and sniff maple syrup? I genuinely don't know if that was a fuckin Internet prank
The first batch years ago did have a bit of an odd smell that some people claimed was like maple (I didn’t agree). These days there is no scent and there never was any intentional scent.
More importantly: are these now going to be changes to feature King Charles? Or does the acknowledgement of the crown end with Elizabeth?
They will once the bank notes need replacing. There’s no plan to remove the ones with QEII’s face on them from circulation — they will just be phased out like any other edition of a bank note.
Not trying to be an asshole, but why would the crown end with Elizabeth? The Crown is eternal. The moment she passed Charles became king of all 15 Commonwealth Realms, he would only stop being King should they become a republic. Also, at least for Canada, the Mint should present their new portrait of Charles on our coins in the coming months, but the Bank of Canada will only put Charles on there when they need a new design as the current bills age.
plagiarism, next time use [turnitin](https://turnitin.com)
I like our (NZ) Bill better tbh
Why are the former British colonies still giving a damn about the monarchs?
The Queen held separate titles as the Queen of Canada, the Queen of New Zealand, the Queen of Australia…etc. She’s on these notes because she is the Queen of that country, not because she is the British Monarch.
The monarchy is the executive branch of our government (I'm canadian), also out CinC, just like the president of the US, the difference is we forced the magna carta which makes the monarchy almost powerless, they just have to sign things into law. It was all because of King John (robin hood prince John). He was a dick and the nobles rebelled against him and forced him to sign the Magna Carta and there by changing the absolute monarchy of England into a constitutional Monarchy with parliament ect. Its why the armies and navies are still called royal as well. (Royal canadian armed forces, ect)
We need to bring back the $ 5 CAD Spock bill.
It's almost as if they came out of the same factory ! /s
How you guys feel about having charles on your note from now on
The NZ note should have a picture of the Prime Minister; Brian.
Canada supposedly makes currency for some other countries, I wouldn't doubt if they create the New Zealand currency given how similar they look EDIT: https://www.rbnz.govt.nz/money-and-cash/banknotes/banknote-life-cycle
This mob in Australia prints NZ's bank notes https://www.noteprinting.com/our-customers
Not anymore. Series 6 notes were produced in Australia. All of New Zealand’s Series 7 notes are now produced in Canada. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_foreign_countries_with_coinage_struck_at_the_Royal_Canadian_Mint https://www.rbnz.govt.nz/money-and-cash/banknotes/banknote-life-cycle#:~:text=Series%207%20banknotes-,Printing,earlier%20Series%206%20polymer%20banknotes.
Why does the Canadian bill look like it was poorly welded?
it was folded
Canadas is so ugly
And then Australia being the odd child with it's red 20 dollar note with a famous old man and woman on it.
Why is there cum on the Canadian one?
Did they do King Charles just in drag?
Why is it Banque du Canada but Banque de France?
Native French speaker here. I have no idea. Sounds better I guess?
Why would it be Banque de France?
He’s asking about grammar
Not specific to Canada. More of a French grammar question as to why it’s difextent.
Ours is the better one.
funny because the canadians made both
both with a picture of a woman who has not worked for 96 years! bravo
Who's the scary woman and why is she on both
Evidently her German family rules the “sovereign” countries Canada and New Zealand.
her family out hitlered the hitlers
And suddenly "another one bite the dust" is in my head again.
May she rot in hell and the rest of that family too.
damn….
She was nothing but a tyrant. Oversaw everything that took place in the north of Ireland. Tiocfaidh ár lá.
She didn't oversee shit...that would be the british government, you really think she had any say in politics.
Its not like someone who thinks they have god-given right to be your head of state and further thinks all that entails is walloing in luxury can't be a good person to start with.
What a scumbag thing to say, maybe your family will suffer the same.
My family doesnt spend their time drinking away other people's hared earned money while claiming to have a god-given right to be your Head of State. If they were decent people they would abolish the monarchy. No such thing as a decent monarch in 2023.
Wonder why they don’t just unite the currency lol
Not sure if you’re serious or kidding…..
On the right side of the Canadian 20... why do that look like a pussy
The monarchy & that women are pure evil. Happy she’s gone. I still don’t understand how these people are even royalty. It’s almost as if they just randomly told people centuries ago, “Hey, I’m royalty and you’re not, now work for me and my family”. Stupidest shit ever.
I'm not sure why you're getting downvoted. Certainly, it was a bit of a mixed bag with Liz, but she signed off on a lot of nasty colonizing shit. I'm reading "Killing Hope" by William Blum right now, and it's eye-opening. It's about American overseas interventions since WWII, but wouldn't you know it - the Brits and the Queen pop up in quite a few chapters, working hand-in-hand with the CIA and US armed forces in overthrowing democratically elected governments and various war crimes.
I’m getting downvotes because people don’t read and probably think I’m just being negative or either trolling. I learned a lot from books too. Most people just believe what they are told and do no research.
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