New bank notes

[Kazza]

What do you think of the new bank notes?

http://www.perthnow.com.au/gallery-e...2344323?page=1

Is this because people have managed to copy the notes such as the fifty?

Working at Crown Casino, our surveillence team tend to find the $50 note being counterfeited the most. But this is the first i've heard of new notes being introduced.

[Slag]

They're....... colourful. where's the fiver? they really need to drop 5c pieces too. They don't work on any parking or snack machine

[Trent]

Heard a guy on the radio from the reserve bank a few days ago talking about this.

While they are still relatively hard to counterfeit, they want to update them before they start to have big counterfeiting problems.

But as for who's on them and what they look like, I don't care. It's only money.

[griffin]

The larger notes will always be the best ones to counterfeit for a greater return by small parties... but the bigger crime syndicates would be able to do smaller notes and make it profitable. (the smaller notes would also be less scrutinised to see if they are fake, making it easier to use them - probably why the $100 isn't done as much, as people rarely use them, so would be checked over more often)

It's a shame that the notes have to be replaced from time to time, as they can become iconic after a while.
And to be honest... I think that by the time the old notes are finally completely removed from circulation to eliminate any fake ones, the new ones would be counterfeited by crime syndicates already. A never-ending cycle.