Dear Madan and Bill, Bill is right. Australian paper money is not paper at all � it is all plastic � but it is the same size and thickness as the old paper notes. This means that the $5 dollar note is the same height (the small dimension) and the same length (the longer dimension) as the old $5 dollar note.
This size relationship is also true for old and new $10, $20, and $50 notes; the $100 note was new. Unlike the USA, each note differs from the others in its length: the $10 note is about 8 mm longer than the $5 note; the $20 note is about 8 mm longer than the $10 note; the $50 note is about 8 mm longer than the $20 note, and the $100 note is about 8 mm longer than the $50 note. I believe that the differences in length are to help visually handicapped people distinguish between notes of different values. The notes are also brightly and distinctively colored to also help these people. Cheers, Pat Naughtin CAMS Geelong, Australia on 2002-09-11 10.40, Bill Potts at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Madan: > > They're not plastic cards. They're the same size and, as far as I can tell, > the same thickness as the older paper notes. > > They are, of course, much stronger and much more durable. > > Bill Potts, CMS > Roseville, CA > http://metric1.org [SI Navigator] > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On >> Behalf Of M R >> Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 15:25 >> To: U.S. Metric Association >> Subject: [USMA:22165] Re: Off-SI:New coins-1,5,10,50 cents >> >> >> Hi Pat >> >> Its interesting to note the currency in plastic cards. >> Can you give us the size of those cards. >> >> Madan >> --- Pat Naughtin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Dear Michael and All, >>> >>> Here, in Australia, we no longer have 1 cent and two >>> cent coins. They >>> disappeared, without protest, a few years ago. >>> >>> Our plastic notes, for $5, $10, $20, $50, and $100 >>> work very well and they >>> are well accepted in the community, as are the $1 >>> and $2 coins. >>> >>> I agree with you about renaming coins in the USA. I >>> well remember reading >>> comics from the USA - as a child - and wondering >>> what was the difference >>> between a nickel and a dime; I did not know which >>> was which. It was a bit >>> like references to a stick of butter in recipes from >>> the USA. It was only >>> recently that I found out that a stick of butter is >>> about 250 grams. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Pat Naughtin CAMS >>> Geelong, Australia >>> >>> on 2002-09-11 04.20, Michael G. Koerner at >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> >>>> "Wizard of OS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Subject: [USMA:22157] Re: Off-SI:New >>> coins-1,5,10,50 cents >>>>> Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 15:01:20 +0200 >>>>> From: "Wizard of OS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>> To: U.S. Metric Association <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>> >>>>> Your uncle needs a bill redesign too! >>>> >>>> Another evolutionary redesign of USA banknotes is >>> due to begin sometime >>>> next year. >>>> >>>> I would also go to Australian style plastic >>> instead of the paper (Mexico >>>> just announced that they will be replacing their >>> paper banknotes with >>>> plastic notes, starting with their $20 (20 Peso) >>> notes). >>>> >>>> Further, I would drop our $1 and seldom used $2 >>> notes in favor of coins. >>>> >>>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>>> From: "M R" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>> To: "U.S. Metric Association" >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>> Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 2:55 PM >>>>> Subject: [USMA:22156] Off-SI:New coins-1,5,10,50 >>> cents >>>>> >>>>>> >>> >> http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/09/09/coin.design.ap/index.html >>>>>> >>>>>> Uncle Sam planning new designs for 1,5,10 & 50 >>> cent >>>>>> coins. >>>> >>>> Whatever is decided upon for coin redesign, I >>> would >>>> a) drop the 1" and >>>> b) change the words: "FIVE CENTS", "ONE DIME", >>> "QUARTER DOLLAR", "HALF >>>> DOLLAR" and "ONE DOLLAR" to read "5 CENTS", "10 >>> CENTS", "25 CENTS", "50 >>>> CENTS" and "1 DOLLAR", respectively. >>>> >>>> Unless one can read English _and_ knows what the >>> words mean, our coins >>>> are FIENDISHLY difficult to decipher (especially >>> the Dime). >>> >> >> >> __________________________________________________ >> Yahoo! - We Remember >> 9-11: A tribute to the more than 3,000 lives lost >> http://dir.remember.yahoo.com/tribute >> >
