Bring on the new bill

The Bank of Canada unveiled the new $20 bill yesterday. It goes into circulation on September 29th (my parents’ wedding anniversary). This follows the release of the new $10, $5 and $100. The $50 bill will be redesigned later this year and the $10 will be redesigned again next year. Or rather the $10 bill will be “upgraded” like it’s software. This is according to this CBC news story. I noticed on other blogs this morning about the announcement yesterday but wanted to see a picture of the new bill. Our currency is becoming more like the European one in style and colour while the American currency is slowly (very slowly) becoming like our old currency.

What struck me is the picture shown in the CBC news story:
CBC picture
The Queen looks demonic and the colours looked rather atrocious. So I thought – that can’t be the real picture of the currency so I went over to the Bank of Canada’s website and found a better picture:
Front

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Back

I think they look pretty nice and my guess is that something weird happens if you take a picture of the bill, hence the strange colours in the CBC picture. At any rate, I’m looking forward to seeing one of these new bills in person come September.

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