Canada's New Money

From Yahoo Canada:
"Americans fascinated by new plastic Canadian $100 bill"

Americans have always been fascinated with Canadian money, even though their stores rarely accept it if you're buying anything while visiting across the border. In the land of the greenback, Canada's colourful bills are exotic. So it's no surprise that word Canada was phasing in polymer-based bills got wide play in American media. "This week, our friend to the north introduced the first in its new line of all-plastic notes - a cool $100 bill made out of a single sheet of plastic polymer and tricked out with all kinds of high-tech security features," the Los Angeles Times' technology section enthused. Reports on U.S. news sites usually riffed on the theme that paying with plastic in Canada no longer means using a credit card. The Bank of Canada this week released the plastic $100 bill, the first denomination in the gradual conversion to polymer currency from paper."Demonstrating the powerful connection between money and sex, The Canadian Press wrote last month that "a focus group mistook the depiction of a strand of DNA on the $100 bill for a sex toy, and most people thought the see-through window on the polymer notes was shaped like the contours of a woman's body." Mark Allen pointed out, as most of the news stories did, that Australia was the first country to switch to polymer bills in 1988.

^ I like the different colors of Canada's Dollar. I don't know if the new polymer bills are any good (I would have to see and feel one to make a final decision.) As most of the articles state Canada accepts US Dollars while most American stores do not accept Canada's Dollar. ^

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/dailybrew/americans-fascinated-plastic-canadian-100-bill-203809067.html