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Check out Australia's currency.

Of course, you pig Americans are so inbred and stubborn that you need proof that different sized and coloured notes would be an advantage.

Very well. Open your wallet. Spread the notes section open - just peek inside. Don't take any of the money out of your wallet - don't even pull the corners out to read the numbers. Just by looking at the notes, lying there in their sessile state, count how much you have in your wallet. Even better, locate one of the three $50 notes you have in your wallet, amongst the $5, two $20 and a stack of receipts - without leafing through the notes, trying to read the "50" in low light.

This is what my notes look like in my wallet.

It's much easier to count money in your wallet by looking at the coloured edges, than by fingering through and looking for the numbers. Especially in a crowd, where you don't necessarily want to take the notes out of the wallet for everyone to see.

Even better, it's practically impossible to confuse an Australian note with a shopping receipt or voucher. Coloured notes also aids the 40% of adults who are illiterate (you don't have to be able to read to know that a yellow Australian note is $50). Admittedly, Australian notes don't have Braille on them. That's cool - I might have to move to Canada just because of the cool currency :)

Change the colour of your money. It's about convenience, accessibility and security, not just aesthetics.

The Oz mint makes polymer currency, complete with a hologram encrusted window, for Australia, Thailand, Papua New Guinea, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Indonesia, Kuwait, Western Samoa, New Zealand and Romania.

The polymer sheeting is made from in a huge complex where balloons with about the same volume as a WWII aircraft carrier, or something, are blown out from melted polymer in a huge complex. I read a good article on the process in the Sydney Morning Herald's Good Weekend section about a year ago.

Here's some links

Oz Dept of Foriegn Affairs 'n Trade

Note Printing Australia

ABC News (the US ABC that is)

Another ABC page

Oz Reserve Bank currency page

Securency PTY LTD

Currency 'how are they made?' page

RBA Polymer page

The Oz mint makes polymer currency, complete with a hologram encrusted window, for Australia, Thailand, Papua New Guinea, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Indonesia, Kuwait, Western Samoa, New Zealand and Romania.

The polymer sheeting is made from in a huge complex where balloons with about the same volume as a WWII aircraft carrier, or something, are blown out from melted polymer in a huge complex. I read a good article on the process in the Sydney Morning Herald's Good Weekend section about a year ago.

Here's some links

Oz Dept of Foriegn Affairs 'n Trade

Note Printing Australia

ABC News (the US ABC that is)

Another ABC page

Oz Reserve Bank currency page

Securency PTY LTD

Currency 'how are they made?' page

RBA Polymer page

The Oz mint makes polymer currency, complete with a hologram encrusted window, for Australia, Thailand, Papua New Guinea, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Indonesia, Kuwait, Western Samoa, New Zealand and Romania.

The polymer sheeting is made from in a huge complex where balloons with about the same volume as a WWII aircraft carrier, or something, are blown out from melted polymer in a huge complex. I read a good article on the process in the Sydney Morning Herald's Good Weekend section about a year ago.

Here's some links

Oz Dept of Foriegn Affairs 'n Trade

Note Printing Australia

ABC News (the US ABC that is)

Another ABC page

Oz Reserve Bank currency page

Securency PTY LTD

Currency 'how are they made?' page

RBA Polymer page

The Oz mint makes polymer currency, complete with a hologram encrusted window, for Australia, Thailand, Papua New Guinea, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Indonesia, Kuwait, Western Samoa, New Zealand and Romania.

The polymer sheeting is made from in a huge complex where balloons with about the same volume as a WWII aircraft carrier, or something, are blown out from melted polymer in a huge complex. I read a good article on the process in the Sydney Morning Herald's Good Weekend section about a year ago.

Here's some links

Oz Dept of Foriegn Affairs 'n Trade

Note Printing Australia

ABC News (the US ABC that is)

Another ABC page

Oz Reserve Bank currency page

Securency PTY LTD

Currency 'how are they made?' page

RBA Polymer page

The page with the notes is down, here is a page from the Australian Gov with pics of their notes. The clear window part is kind of cool, except I like the feel of fresh American money. If I want to feel plastic, I'll rub my credit cards...