Canadas New Money Melting

[jeff of pa]

Canada's New Money Melting

(Newser) – The Canadian dollar is melting. No, it's not sinking in value again, it's physically melting. Canada switched to "indestructible" polymer $50 and $100 bills a few months ago, but it turns out that both are prone to melting and curling in intense heat "like bacon in a frying pan," reports the Toronto Star. The bills were supposed to have been tested from -40 degrees to 280 degrees Fahrenheit, but people are reporting that the bills can be damaged by the heat inside a car on a hot summer day. (Canada has those, really.) A Halifax man reported his bills turning into the shape of a "Coke bottle" after he left his wallet on a toaster oven, and plenty more anecdotes are coming in.

Canada's New Money Melting - 'Indestructible' bills can't take the heat

 

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[jeff of pa]

[h=1]Tall tales of melting Canadian currency bills[/h] [h=2]Commentary: What’s behind the stories of burned Canadian bills?[/h]
This apparent urban legend soon spread from the Toronto Star to no less than the Business section of the respected Los Angeles Times, which headlined its own story on the supposedly non-fire-resistant plastic currency: “Is Canada’s Plastic Money Melting?”
The Toronto story also featured a picture of “allegedly” melted $100 bills looking like holographic peanut butter spread on toast.
One “banking industry source” told the Star, “you can’t rip them, you can’t tear them, you can’t wreck them by washing them but apparently you can heat them and melt them.”
Anecdotal reports about the new polymeric $50 and $100 bills — Australia has had them for years — has been flooding Canadian media. A bank teller in Kelowna, B.C., says she’s heard the $100s have melted together inside a hot car. (A dubious claim at best).

Tall tales of melting Canadian currency bills - Bill Mann's Canada - MarketWatch

 

[BaronH]

Wow, that is absolutely bizarre. I wonder what would happen if it was washed and dried.......

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