2011: Next serie of canadian banknotes

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What is a "motion security thread"?

"Motion Security Thread" is an embedded thread that contains thousands of microscopic lenses which create a moving image effect when the banknote is tilted.

The information about the technology is here:
http://www.crane.se/site.aspx?id=572

The first banknote with the motion thread was 1000 kroner from Sweden. Since then, the following banknotes were also released:

Mexico 200 and 1000 pesos (100 and 500 not yet released)
Paraguay 100,000 guaranies
Korea 50,000 won
Denmark 50 kroner (100, 200, 500, 1000 not yet released)

For the images of the notes, check out this site: http://www.banknotenews.com

In 2010, the new US$100 will also feature the motion thread.

That is actually really neat....Now brick searchers will have to deal with motion sickness as well, when going through bricks

Yay!  Now I will have to build another matrix

Actually, I am looking forward to this.

Could this mean they are thinking of issuing the exact same Journey series designs, but on polymer instead?  Increased security without being "fancy" and changing the design.....  you gotta love pure speculation!

Could very well be.  Romania did the exact same thing - switched from paper to polymer but kept the designs largely intact.

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God I hope they make $500 and/or $1000 bills.

God I hope they make $500 and/or $1000 bills.

It'll probably be a whole generation before we see a bill larger than $100.  Plans for a $200 note were scrapped only three years ago.  http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2006/08/19/banknote-canada.html

We definitely will not see $1000 notes ever again. Too much problems with money laundering plus what merchant in their right mind will keep change for $1000 in their tills? Its a huge security issue.

Even tellers are not supposed to keep over $2000 in their tills due to security and insurance issues.

2011 will roll around quickly!!!   Can't wait to see the new designs and may be perhaps, Polymer notes.

IMO:
We've seen prior new issues printed and released before the formal year of issue (eg 2001 Journey notes printed and released in 2000) so we may see the new series sooner (like end of 2010) than later.  Also, I think the mixture of polymer and paper (maintained on higher denominations) is more likely than just the one (all polymer).  If security is still a big concern than polymer is the only logical way to go.

IMO:
We've seen prior new issues printed and released before the formal year of issue (eg 2001 Journey notes printed and released in 2000)

Are you sure that the 2001 Jouurney notes were released in 2000? If i remember correctly the 2001 Ten issue was indeed printed and ready in 2000 but only hit the streets in mid-January 2001.
I don't think we ever had seen any Bank note get issued and released before its official start year... I could be wrong.

As for the 2011 series, i believe sometime this year they will announce the official design. Hopefully as early as spring next year we could be in for a whole new style of notes.
The only downside is, much like all other series it'll only be a matter of time before someone figures out how to counterfeit them.

Are you sure that the 2001 Journey notes were released in 2000? If i remember correctly the 2001 Ten issue was indeed printed and ready in 2000 but only hit the streets in mid-January 2001.

JB-2007, you are correct.  According to Charlton, the official first day of issue for the Journey $10 was January 17, 2001.

We definitely will not see $1000 notes ever again.

Is a $100 bill useful today?  Because someday that's what $1000 will be worth in today's dollars due to inflation.  Expect that the BoC will release a new $1000 note by then, and that a $200 and $500 denomination will have been released along the way.  Perhaps not in the remainder of our lifetimes, but it'll happen eventually.