New Bills
Have we all handled or seen the new yen notes yet? What do we think? Sitting here comparing an old thousand yen note with a new note, I have decided that I like the new notes better. The new notes have that layered feeling, pretty colors, Mt. Fuji (Those stupid cranes on the old notes never sat right with me.), and some sort of shiny sheen to them in places. The old notes were just dull green with some stupid birds on them - Good riddance. Anyway, here is the BOJ’s Valid Notes of Japan pdf.
There is one other thing I would like to point out. Everyone, look at the black bars located in the bottom corners of both the one-thousand and ten-thousand yen notes and the dot in the same corners on the five-thousand note. These are the new braille bars for the blind, so they can id how much they are holding. Again, this is far better than those stupid indented/raised dots on the old notes, which I could never really feel.
Good job BOJ. Good job.
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I like the 10,000 yen note’s design with the “Wonder Chicken”
I like the 1,000-yen note, which my friends and I have started calling the “afro bill,” but the 5,000-yen “scary ghost lady” note kinda creeps me out.
You should really take a look to Australian notes. They are not made from paper, they are made from plastic! are semi-transparent and heavy duty !
(I can’t say the same for our freaking-yet-colourfull euro notes)