When Becky mentioned Confucius potentially being on the Chinese banknote my brain immediately thought of a hypothetical quote. "Put me on money. It would be funny." - Confucius
Now I wonder if there's an equivalent rhyming couplet in Chinese. Or ancient Chinese. That's not to say that I'd understand it at all or get any of the nuances that could undoubtedly be worked into it; classical Chinese poetry is supposedly full of layered meaning and wordplay. But, that quality could mean that such a couplet is all the more likely.
4:40 Here's a fact not generally known. From the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing: "U.S. currency paper is composed of 25% linen and 75% cotton, with red and blue fibers distributed randomly throughout to make imitation more difficult."
I'm Canadian and barely use cash anymore, just a few bills in my wallet for emergencies like the bank network going down, I did not know that we had portrait bills, I checked and I have two $10 bills in portrait mode. Leave it to Tom to teach me something about my own country's money.
Our notes in Brazil are not portrait. We used to have one face portrait and the other landscape before we adopted different sizes for different notes. But it's all landscape now.
The Euro notes have no portrait on them either. Somebody said that the reason is that every famous person in a country in the EU did or said something which upset some people in an other country, so they decided to be on the safe side and use no portraits. The new Swiss money has no portrait either.
@@thehun1234 That’s not the kind of “portrait” we are talking about mate. A “portrait mode” is NOT the face of a person. It’s the idea that everything is printed *vertically*. Swiss banknotes are one of the few currencies in the world to be printed this way.
About burning the money, Tom's 3 part video series in his main channel where he mentions about this and goes to that Scottish Island are among my favorite videos of him.
i found this one ruclips.net/video/9LZEZ5QuyzM/видео.html but i think it's only part 3... and thanks to youtube's terrible terrible search function, i have no idea how to dig up the other 2 AT ALL.
I've seen that video series, and I have a friend who is a little obsessed with the KLF (not the Kenyan Liberation Front), so it's like that reference was made for me.
@@alveolate Part 1: watch?v=h0AMaW4XRCI Part 2: watch?v=3tO3h9APNbM Part 3: watch?v=9LZEZ5QuyzM I think that's all of them. I won't be risking putting in the exact links though as my reply might get eaten by the system.
The KLF reference got me wondering why they didn't get into trouble. And a brief search it seems in the United Kingdom, defacing a banknote is illegal, but destroying or burning it is not. However, destroying a banknote is dangerous as burning inks produce chemical fumes that can injure your health if inhaled.
In the case where it were illegal, it'd be kinda funny-sad to see the charges for an arsonist, and just tacked on that the bottom: 20 charges of destruction of currency
Defacing currency, for the purpose of defrauding someone (Like adding a zero, I suppose) is illegal in most countries. Defacing, or destroying the currency in a way that effectively makes it something other than money (like coin rings, or other 'art') is generally OK.
About the glitter thing, I remember a video, maybe from HAI? Saying that the big secret glitter buyers are probably the yatch industry, who just don't want their product associated with glitter because they're supposed to be fancy. It's what makes the surface of yatchs, well, glittery
CHUPPL did a video about it, including interviewing someone in the glitter family. The jist is that glitter is just specially-made metal shavings, and it has a ton of industrial uses, including military ones. (Radar chaff, etc...)
I thought it was a secret because when the yachts got scratched they released glitter microplastics into the water, and they didnt want to be associated with environmental damage
Modern US Dollars are different colors on their face in addition to the historic green aside from the $1 and $2 notes. The colors are purple, orange, green, pink, and teal for the 5, 10, 20, 50, and 100. $20 are just extra green in addition to the usual shade of green. The strips also glow a specific color under UV.
@@jhpratt Thanks. Many countries have moved to (nearly) indestructible polymer currency, so I assumed the United Sates would have too. But cash is rapidly declining, so in a decade people may not be using it, so it may not be worth the bother of changing over.
Why would the orientation matter for that purpose? Do you read what's written on each note you take out or put in the cash register? Are you unable to identify notes when they're rotated 90 degrees?
@@allongur A lot of people in the US fail to correctly read their notes regardless, so having them in the same orientation you're looking at them would be a step in the right direction.
In theory, the UK has portrait banknotes too, as ones made in Northern Ireland are portrait, however most shops in the mainland don't accept them despite them being fully legal tender for the whole country
The primary costumer of the glitter industry is fishing boats manufacturers, the bottoms of certain types of fishing boats are covered in glitter because it looks like the surface of the water to fish so they can’t see the boat, the reason they didn’t want to say is that the glitter is basically micro plastics, a lot of which end up in the water and they didn’t want to get environmentalists coming after them
Didn't it turn out the biggest glitter user were boat builders and it was being put on the hull or something. They didn't want to talk about it because it polluted the ocean so much.
I thought this was pretty thoroughly debunked because they list the manufacturers on the website and there have been boat paint companies on there. It's not really a trade secret in the slightest.
The UK's first polymer banknote was portrait too. It was made to mark the new millennium by Northern Bank in Belfast (because some banks in Scotland and Northern Ireland can make their own notes). It had space shuttle blueprints on it and was the standard Northern Bank £5 note until they decided it wasn't worth printing notes smaller than £10.
Ulster Bank in Northern Ireland also have portrait notes (£). The different colours for different values doesn't work here because because different banks have made different notes the same colour. There are green £10 and £20 notes. (I had someone point out that they're different shades of green once, but that's not really helpful for anyone with a lower sensitivity to that sort of thing). Bank of Ireland has a green £20. Danske bank has a green £10.
Initially, I thought the answer was that Chinese currency decided to basically do the equivalent of saying printing in 2xxx or x century, which Sri Lanka decided to copy, but Sri Lanka did it in 1979, I wasn't sure what to think. Never expected it would be going from landscape to portrait, because it isn't immediately obvious that Canada does this as it's only on the new $10 bill so far which commemorates Viola Desmond (whom people basically call Canadian Rosa Parks even though it's reductive).
I once saw a video on youtube about "how people in different countries count banknotes". As in, you grab a stack and flick through them one-two-three-four... You've seen it in movies and have likely done this yourself. Well, in countries with vertical banknotes, they hold them vertically to count them, and there are a few different ways to do this.
I've lived here a year now, and I had to dig out a Swiss Franc note, to confirm that CHF are indeed printed portrait on both sides. Fun fact (for me at least, who engages in the sport) there is a paraglider on the 50 CHF note.
When Tom mentioned Brazil and that it was natural for China, my thought went to putting animals on the bank notes. Also got the KLF reference immediately.
Additional 'note' about the Canadian choice. The $10 note with it's portrait orientation actually won an award from the International Bank Note Society for it's design. It's also the first Canadian bill to not have a Prime Minister or a member of the Royal Family. Instead it celebrates Viola Davis and the Canadian Human Rights Museum. And it looks awesome!
Link is in the description. Can't copy it because RUclips doesn't like links being posted in the comments. Though you can't watch them there, only listen to them.
Did they? Cause the first episode _was_ released in full as an experiment, alongside the highlights. People didn't like seeing both highlights and full videos (at least on the same channel), so they had a decision to make. The highlights videos generate more revenue (daily schedule is much better for the Algorithm than weekly), so no more full-length since that first episode. You're saying this is being reconsidered @@thespankmyfrank ?
I thought for sure it would be something about language and translations. Sri Lanka being former Ceylon. And Tom named a few bilingual countries like Switzerland and Canada. First time I was sure of an answer, but wrong, lol.
Canadian banknotes have been bilingual for a while, even technically trilingual if you count braile as there is a small amount on newer notes to identify denominations. I think that's super cool.
KLF have gone on record saying that they regret burning the money, not entirely because they wish they still had it, part of it was more of them realising years later that they could of done a bunch of good and made the same statement
Probably wroth clarifying that most banknotes in Hong Kong aren't portrait? I think there are some that are on the reverse but the obverse as far as I can remember are all landscape and have been for years.
Tom's not saying those nations *always* do that - Canada briefly printed a series of special edition banknotes commemorating various things, and I think ONE of those was printed portrait style. For a single year. You probably had something similar happen - maybe for a historic anniversary?
Just a clarification, the portrait bill with Viola Desmond is part of the current series of polymer notes and is still being printed as needed. It was not a commemorative one off as people are led to believe. Now, the 25 dollar bill is another story. (I honestly wish I had one as a collector.)
Initial thoughts: complete devaluation and replacement? Nah... too prone to anecdotes and widespread to be Lateral about those two specific countries and 1979. Switch to fabric/textile instead of paper? Make it coloured instead of B/W, include prominent figures? Adopt some security feature? Once again, the same dismissal applies. Make it a floating (indexed, adjusted) tender/devise? E.g. it's not a direct numerical amount of buck/quid/dollarreedoo, but a purchasing power redeemable "voucher". Make it nullable/voidable/destroyable in some ways, via water-soluble ink notably fitting for an island nation. It helps control illegitimate spread of the currency.
4:15 Ok, this is NOT something specific to 1979 and those countries; and that question was definitely misleading by implying that. Switch to vertical printing.
Sorry, to disappoint, but Brazil's latest ones don't do this anymore, I haven't seen the old ones for a while now. Let me see if any of the money I have in my wallet has it.... Whelp, all of the money I have is the new style, I have a set of the old ones tucked away, but they're.... rare nowadays. My original guess for the theme was having someone counting with fingers on the notes, but I think India already does that...
Things I learned from A History of the World in 100 Objects about the Ming banknote (the 72nd object): · It was printed on mulberry bark. · The back side is blank. · It depicts the coins that it represents. · "To circulate forever." · "To counterfeit is death!" None of these was the answer to this question.
Ok Tom ... have you just been pilfering through my youtube history for guests? if so i have some more suggestions that you seem to have missed that would not disappoint
I have to assume that people who still say all American money is green just haven't used cash in America in over a decade. Yeah the color variation isn't nearly as strong as it is in other countries, but you can very easily tell the difference between a dull green $1, purple $5, orange $10, vibrant green $20, pink $50 and blue $100.
TBH, I can't remember the last time I handled ANY banknotes - might have to go back to The Before Times - so the last time I'd seen US currency in person was probably longer than that...
Tom is citating this line from Wikipedia. Between 1993 and 2013, Brazil has printed banknotes of 5000 and 50000 cruzeiros reais and the first Brazilian real series of banknotes has the obverse in traditional horizontal layout, while the reverse is in vertical format en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banknote#Vertical_orientation so assuming they did with a few of them.
@@lateralcast ohhhhh, they actually were on the back, I have one of those in my pocket right now actually... I've never seen someone classify them as vertical because the front side was always horizontal but that's totally right
This is the second time it’s been said on this show, but it’s not true that US banknotes are all the same color. Seriously take a look at them again and you’ll see each note is tinted a noticeably different color.
They famously used to be. I have a series 2003 $5 bill and a series 2006 $5 next to each other in the binder with my banknote collection, and the difference is striking. The 2006 also adds the "Eurion" anti-counterfeiting design. (Actually I think the change was made in 2004; I don't have a 2004 $5, but I do have a 2004 $20).
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When Becky mentioned Confucius potentially being on the Chinese banknote my brain immediately thought of a hypothetical quote.
"Put me on money. It would be funny."
- Confucius
Now I wonder if there's an equivalent rhyming couplet in Chinese. Or ancient Chinese. That's not to say that I'd understand it at all or get any of the nuances that could undoubtedly be worked into it; classical Chinese poetry is supposedly full of layered meaning and wordplay. But, that quality could mean that such a couplet is all the more likely.
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4:40 Here's a fact not generally known. From the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing: "U.S. currency paper is composed of 25% linen and 75% cotton, with red and blue fibers distributed randomly throughout to make imitation more difficult."
I'm Canadian and barely use cash anymore, just a few bills in my wallet for emergencies like the bank network going down, I did not know that we had portrait bills, I checked and I have two $10 bills in portrait mode. Leave it to Tom to teach me something about my own country's money.
Our notes in Brazil are not portrait. We used to have one face portrait and the other landscape before we adopted different sizes for different notes. But it's all landscape now.
Old Real notes used to be portrait on the back face! Check out the old animals designs :D
The Euro notes have no portrait on them either. Somebody said that the reason is that every famous person in a country in the EU did or said something which upset some people in an other country, so they decided to be on the safe side and use no portraits. The new Swiss money has no portrait either.
@@thehun1234
That’s not the kind of “portrait” we are talking about mate.
A “portrait mode” is NOT the face of a person. It’s the idea that everything is printed *vertically*. Swiss banknotes are one of the few currencies in the world to be printed this way.
@@KasabianFan44 I know that. I should have put a smiley at the end.
About burning the money, Tom's 3 part video series in his main channel where he mentions about this and goes to that Scottish Island are among my favorite videos of him.
That's a great series.
omigosh now i gotta dig it up... brb
i found this one ruclips.net/video/9LZEZ5QuyzM/видео.html but i think it's only part 3... and thanks to youtube's terrible terrible search function, i have no idea how to dig up the other 2 AT ALL.
I've seen that video series, and I have a friend who is a little obsessed with the KLF (not the Kenyan Liberation Front), so it's like that reference was made for me.
@@alveolate
Part 1: watch?v=h0AMaW4XRCI
Part 2: watch?v=3tO3h9APNbM
Part 3: watch?v=9LZEZ5QuyzM
I think that's all of them. I won't be risking putting in the exact links though as my reply might get eaten by the system.
The KLF reference got me wondering why they didn't get into trouble. And a brief search it seems in the United Kingdom, defacing a banknote is illegal, but destroying or burning it is not. However, destroying a banknote is dangerous as burning inks produce chemical fumes that can injure your health if inhaled.
In the case where it were illegal, it'd be kinda funny-sad to see the charges for an arsonist, and just tacked on that the bottom: 20 charges of destruction of currency
It's also expensive.
Defacing currency, for the purpose of defrauding someone (Like adding a zero, I suppose) is illegal in most countries. Defacing, or destroying the currency in a way that effectively makes it something other than money (like coin rings, or other 'art') is generally OK.
its alright about the fumes, they were outside
When burning the money was mentioned, I was like "does Sri Lanka have a ghost festival?"
No, just a old mention with people selling small crafts, trinkets and with music in the main room.
Shoutouts to Everyone's Favorite.
I believe it's pronounced 'host' festival 😅
@@whoisWAZz does that include IPA?
@@sirBrouwerIndia Pale Ale?
About the glitter thing, I remember a video, maybe from HAI? Saying that the big secret glitter buyers are probably the yatch industry, who just don't want their product associated with glitter because they're supposed to be fancy. It's what makes the surface of yatchs, well, glittery
CHUPPL did a video about it, including interviewing someone in the glitter family. The jist is that glitter is just specially-made metal shavings, and it has a ton of industrial uses, including military ones. (Radar chaff, etc...)
I thought it was a secret because when the yachts got scratched they released glitter microplastics into the water, and they didnt want to be associated with environmental damage
Nah, other way around. They don't want to glam up the glitter industry by making people think their parties are a little yachty.
Modern US Dollars are different colors on their face in addition to the historic green aside from the $1 and $2 notes. The colors are purple, orange, green, pink, and teal for the 5, 10, 20, 50, and 100. $20 are just extra green in addition to the usual shade of green. The strips also glow a specific color under UV.
Is American currency still paper or have they moved tp polymer?
@@Dave_SissonTechnically they're fabric.
@@Dave_Sisson Aside from the plastic strip in the $100 bill, they are all a cotton-linen blend. As has been the case for a very long time.
@@jhpratt Thanks. Many countries have moved to (nearly) indestructible polymer currency, so I assumed the United Sates would have too. But cash is rapidly declining, so in a decade people may not be using it, so it may not be worth the bother of changing over.
There's portrait banknotes in the UK. Ulster Bank makes them.
Working as a cashier; potrait notes makes more sense, because that is the direction we retrive and dispence banknotes from the cash register.
Tnx! I was wondering about this!
As a cashier, not in my tills.
Why would the orientation matter for that purpose? Do you read what's written on each note you take out or put in the cash register? Are you unable to identify notes when they're rotated 90 degrees?
@@allongur A lot of people in the US fail to correctly read their notes regardless, so having them in the same orientation you're looking at them would be a step in the right direction.
I've never seen Canadian bills in anything other than landscape mode, so how does Canada fit in here?
They have a single commemorative $10 billI think
Yeah, the latest Canadian $10 bill is vertical.
When Tom said Switzerland also does it, I got it right away
In theory, the UK has portrait banknotes too, as ones made in Northern Ireland are portrait, however most shops in the mainland don't accept them despite them being fully legal tender for the whole country
Northern Ireland banknotes are not legal tender.
The primary costumer of the glitter industry is fishing boats manufacturers, the bottoms of certain types of fishing boats are covered in glitter because it looks like the surface of the water to fish so they can’t see the boat, the reason they didn’t want to say is that the glitter is basically micro plastics, a lot of which end up in the water and they didn’t want to get environmentalists coming after them
I wonder which setting in their printer options they'll play with next -- duplex, n-up, long or short edge binding, ...
"did a KLF" is a fantastic phrase and it made me laugh out loud. thanks for that
they have said in later interviews that they regretted burning the money btw
Didn't it turn out the biggest glitter user were boat builders and it was being put on the hull or something. They didn't want to talk about it because it polluted the ocean so much.
We'll never know coz the glitter company will never confirm or deny.
Yes it did. Sparkly boat paint.
I thought this was pretty thoroughly debunked because they list the manufacturers on the website and there have been boat paint companies on there. It's not really a trade secret in the slightest.
Great KLF reference, Tom!
One I didn't know but worked out. And confirmed when he mentioned Switzerland.
Holymoly! Never expected Tom to come up with some KLF trivia.
I love the conversations on this channel!
Brazil only ever had portrait notes from 1994 to 2011
The UK's first polymer banknote was portrait too. It was made to mark the new millennium by Northern Bank in Belfast (because some banks in Scotland and Northern Ireland can make their own notes). It had space shuttle blueprints on it and was the standard Northern Bank £5 note until they decided it wasn't worth printing notes smaller than £10.
Ulster Bank in Northern Ireland also have portrait notes (£).
The different colours for different values doesn't work here because because different banks have made different notes the same colour. There are green £10 and £20 notes. (I had someone point out that they're different shades of green once, but that's not really helpful for anyone with a lower sensitivity to that sort of thing).
Bank of Ireland has a green £20. Danske bank has a green £10.
For Canada it’s just one of our bills has it in portrait orientation.
Take-the-money-and-run is from Danish artist for Danish museum. Not Dutch.
Initially, I thought the answer was that Chinese currency decided to basically do the equivalent of saying printing in 2xxx or x century, which Sri Lanka decided to copy, but Sri Lanka did it in 1979, I wasn't sure what to think.
Never expected it would be going from landscape to portrait, because it isn't immediately obvious that Canada does this as it's only on the new $10 bill so far which commemorates Viola Desmond (whom people basically call Canadian Rosa Parks even though it's reductive).
I once saw a video on youtube about "how people in different countries count banknotes". As in, you grab a stack and flick through them one-two-three-four... You've seen it in movies and have likely done this yourself. Well, in countries with vertical banknotes, they hold them vertically to count them, and there are a few different ways to do this.
I've lived here a year now, and I had to dig out a Swiss Franc note, to confirm that CHF are indeed printed portrait on both sides.
Fun fact (for me at least, who engages in the sport) there is a paraglider on the 50 CHF note.
When Tom mentioned Brazil and that it was natural for China, my thought went to putting animals on the bank notes. Also got the KLF reference immediately.
Additional 'note' about the Canadian choice. The $10 note with it's portrait orientation actually won an award from the International Bank Note Society for it's design. It's also the first Canadian bill to not have a Prime Minister or a member of the Royal Family. Instead it celebrates Viola Davis and the Canadian Human Rights Museum.
And it looks awesome!
Her name is Viola Desmond, but yes. I actually am acquainted with one of her descendants, also a Desmond.
Where can I watch full episodes?
Link is in the description. Can't copy it because RUclips doesn't like links being posted in the comments. Though you can't watch them there, only listen to them.
it is the podcast Lateral. The whole episodes are only in audio a can be found on any listening platforms
@@LeoBBerg Oh, that's a shame. :-(
@@pierrefley5000They've said they're working on getting full episodes in video form, but nit sure if they're gonna be posted on youtube or elsewhere.
Did they? Cause the first episode _was_ released in full as an experiment, alongside the highlights. People didn't like seeing both highlights and full videos (at least on the same channel), so they had a decision to make. The highlights videos generate more revenue (daily schedule is much better for the Algorithm than weekly), so no more full-length since that first episode.
You're saying this is being reconsidered @@thespankmyfrank ?
The idea that it was the KLF who invented acid house had me sniggering away for a bit!
Phuture in Chicago (Spanky, J, Pierre) and DJ Ron Hardy, or even Charanjit Singh from Mumbai, would have something to say about that.
I thought for sure it would be something about language and translations.
Sri Lanka being former Ceylon. And Tom named a few bilingual countries like Switzerland and Canada.
First time I was sure of an answer, but wrong, lol.
It was something about language at least.
@@davidmcgill1000partially
Fyi Switzerland has 4 languages
Canadian banknotes have been bilingual for a while, even technically trilingual if you count braile as there is a small amount on newer notes to identify denominations. I think that's super cool.
Brazil doesn't print it vertically anymore
KLF have gone on record saying that they regret burning the money, not entirely because they wish they still had it, part of it was more of them realising years later that they could of done a bunch of good and made the same statement
Probably wroth clarifying that most banknotes in Hong Kong aren't portrait? I think there are some that are on the reverse but the obverse as far as I can remember are all landscape and have been for years.
Tom's not saying those nations *always* do that - Canada briefly printed a series of special edition banknotes commemorating various things, and I think ONE of those was printed portrait style. For a single year.
You probably had something similar happen - maybe for a historic anniversary?
Just a clarification, the portrait bill with Viola Desmond is part of the current series of polymer notes and is still being printed as needed. It was not a commemorative one off as people are led to believe. Now, the 25 dollar bill is another story. (I honestly wish I had one as a collector.)
Hold up. Do the British pronounce it con-TRO-ver-sy and not CON-tro-VER-sy?
@@Drabkikker @josephlamb3528 - they don't just pronounce "aluminum" different, they SPELL it "alumin*i*um" too!
there are alos bans in the uk that do this too, i know that Ulster bank has vertical notes
Is it. Wait. Let me check. (Literally pulled out a note from my wallet and checked) Yep. It is.
Husni, From Sri Lanka.
I love it when jokes lead them in the right direction
my first thought was the KLF too...
I only know the KLF thing due to Portugal The Man's "What, Me Worry?"
In French, portrait books are called French style and landscape booksare called Italian style.
I knew what "Doing a KLF" was. I am so glad someone else is aware. LOL
Initial thoughts: complete devaluation and replacement? Nah... too prone to anecdotes and widespread to be Lateral about those two specific countries and 1979.
Switch to fabric/textile instead of paper? Make it coloured instead of B/W, include prominent figures? Adopt some security feature? Once again, the same dismissal applies.
Make it a floating (indexed, adjusted) tender/devise? E.g. it's not a direct numerical amount of buck/quid/dollarreedoo, but a purchasing power redeemable "voucher".
Make it nullable/voidable/destroyable in some ways, via water-soluble ink notably fitting for an island nation. It helps control illegitimate spread of the currency.
4:15 Ok, this is NOT something specific to 1979 and those countries; and that question was definitely misleading by implying that.
Switch to vertical printing.
They're justified and they're ancient, and they know what time is love...
Sorry, to disappoint, but Brazil's latest ones don't do this anymore, I haven't seen the old ones for a while now. Let me see if any of the money I have in my wallet has it....
Whelp, all of the money I have is the new style, I have a set of the old ones tucked away, but they're.... rare nowadays.
My original guess for the theme was having someone counting with fingers on the notes, but I think India already does that...
I feel like you need to make an episode with the techdiff crew
Things I learned from A History of the World in 100 Objects about the Ming banknote (the 72nd object):
· It was printed on mulberry bark.
· The back side is blank.
· It depicts the coins that it represents.
· "To circulate forever."
· "To counterfeit is death!"
None of these was the answer to this question.
the largest consumers of Glitter is the sports fishing industry. they use it in the production of boat hulls.
ආච්චිටහාල්ගරනව I'm Sri Lankan and I've never noticed it before:000
I thought it was going to be something to do with having holes cut in it or something
I thought the biggest clients of glitter companies was toothpaste companies.
I got the KLF reference!!
I don't think "inventing acid house" is one of the things that KLF lay claim to, Tom.
Canada only did this for the $10 note, and only for a limited time.
"The opposite of currency counterfeiting", otherwise knowin as currency feiting.
Not currency profeiting?
@@petertaylor4980 currency counterfeiting counters currency feiting. Currency profeiting counters currency antifeiting.
I was thinking 'has the country's name on it' and when China changed to 'The People's Republic' they put something else on the money.
Why did China switch to landscape?
they switched to writing horizontally
Here in Brazil each side has one orientation.
There's an astonishing number of cultural references in this clip.
Shows how little I use cash these days. I live in Hong Kong, and never noticed the change 🤣🤣
I thought that China could cut corners or something because a banknote is rectangular, and they don't like the number 4.
based tom scott KLF reference
lol! KLF reference… lol
Spray cheese Tom. Did China invent spray cheese first? Take that Mr. Smartypants.
They turned the ashes into a brick if I remember correctly
I'm just here for Stecky Burn.
KLF tried to insure the 1M for 1M before they burned it... but....
Ok Tom ... have you just been pilfering through my youtube history for guests? if so i have some more suggestions that you seem to have missed that would not disappoint
I have to assume that people who still say all American money is green just haven't used cash in America in over a decade. Yeah the color variation isn't nearly as strong as it is in other countries, but you can very easily tell the difference between a dull green $1, purple $5, orange $10, vibrant green $20, pink $50 and blue $100.
TBH, I can't remember the last time I handled ANY banknotes - might have to go back to The Before Times - so the last time I'd seen US currency in person was probably longer than that...
Wait, the biggest customers for the glitter industry aren't strip clubs? I mean, it would be a reason for the glitter industry not to admit that.
They said it would be ruinous to said buyers.
Everybody knows strip clubs use glitter.
The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, KLF is bound for Mu MU land!
counter-counterfeiting
pre-mil subber oyyyyy
They wrote Chinese characters on the notes.
I knew klf, but I am 43..
Dang, too early to cheat and look at the comments for the answer
And you even got here earlier than the bot.
4:00. US banknotes are no longer all the same color.
Tell me you stopped the video to make this comment without SAYING you stopped the video to make this comment.
it's GenZ money
Brazilian money is not "vertical", I don't understand what Tomm is talking about
The back of the notes were vertical until 2010
Tom is citating this line from Wikipedia.
Between 1993 and 2013, Brazil has printed banknotes of 5000 and 50000 cruzeiros reais and the first Brazilian real series of banknotes has the obverse in traditional horizontal layout, while the reverse is in vertical format
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banknote#Vertical_orientation
so assuming they did with a few of them.
That's right, the first series of Real notes were portrait on the reverse side, but not currently. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilian_real
@@lateralcast ohhhhh, they actually were on the back, I have one of those in my pocket right now actually...
I've never seen someone classify them as vertical because the front side was always horizontal but that's totally right
This is the second time it’s been said on this show, but it’s not true that US banknotes are all the same color. Seriously take a look at them again and you’ll see each note is tinted a noticeably different color.
If only Tom had said something to that effect, like he did at 4:52.
They famously used to be. I have a series 2003 $5 bill and a series 2006 $5 next to each other in the binder with my banknote collection, and the difference is striking. The 2006 also adds the "Eurion" anti-counterfeiting design. (Actually I think the change was made in 2004; I don't have a 2004 $5, but I do have a 2004 $20).
Actually US currency denominations are VERY subtly the same colors as monopoly money