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    Default Foreign polymer currency

    I am interested in collecting polymer bank notes from around the world. Wondering if anyone know a good source.
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    Man, I hate the stuff. It feels like Tyvek home wrap and has a tendency for the bills to stick together when they are not busy sliding around. They switched our bank notes over to polymer a few years ago. Your bank should be able to get you foreign currency.

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    We started getting the £5 note recently. Its caused some moaning as the bank of England uses tallow from animals.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TheGeek View Post
    We started getting the £5 note recently. Its caused some moaning as the bank of England uses tallow from animals.

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    Really I thought they were completely synthetic


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    Quote Originally Posted by vinnyt View Post
    Really I thought they were completely synthetic


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    Something to do with lubricant in the manufacture process if i remember right.

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    https://www.google.co.uk/amp/www.ind...221.html%3famp

    A basic explanation resides here.

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    That's crazy. I have vegetarian relatives in the U.K. I wonder if they are trying to go cashless.
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    Quote Originally Posted by TheGeek View Post
    https://www.google.co.uk/amp/www.ind...221.html%3famp

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    I wish they did that here so our notes wouldn't stick or slide around. Oddly enough the change over to polymer bank notes started during the term of Mark Carney as Governor of The Bank of Canada and who is presently the Governor of the Bank of England. I wonder if that is just a coincidence?

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    Interesting perhaps he has an interest in the company that makes them?


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    Quote Originally Posted by vinnyt View Post
    Interesting perhaps he has an interest in the company that makes them?


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    I pondered mostly in jest but could be. I'll say one thing for Mark Carney as the Governor of the Bank of Canada, we did well by him. He took over February of 2008 at the start of the global financial meltdown managing us to a better than average outcome.

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