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General => General Forum Comments => Topic started by: Rupiah on September 25, 2016, 11:36:41 pm

Title: New Australian $5 - Is this Claim by RBA correct?
Post by: Rupiah on September 25, 2016, 11:36:41 pm
This is the quote from the RBA website on the new generation banknotes:

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The $5 banknote is the first banknote in the world to feature a window that spans from the top to the bottom of the banknote.

Looks like they took the thunder away from BoC  ???

I am sure I am missing something.

Here is the link to that particular page on which this appears under "Did you Know"

http://banknotes.rba.gov.au/australias-banknotes/next-generation-banknotes-program/top-to-bottom-window/
Title: Re: New Australian $5 - Is this Claim by RBA correct?
Post by: AZ on September 26, 2016, 10:58:03 am
This is the quote from the RBA website on the new generation banknotes:
Looks like they took the thunder away from BoC  ??
I am sure I am missing something.
Here is the link to that particular page on which this appears under "Did you Know"
http://banknotes.rba.gov.au/australias-banknotes/next-generation-banknotes-program/top-to-bottom-window/

Well, technically they are wrong of course. Canadian notes are the first to use the full height window. However, on our notes the windows are covered by the Kinegram holograms at the top and at the bottom, leaving just the middle area fully transparent. In the Australian $5 notes the transparent areas reach all the way to the upper and lower edges of the note, and the holographic elements are smaller. It is not the window that spans all the way but the transparent areas.