pause at 7:45 and you can see the face of satan in jj's hair
@Nerfyboy8004 ай бұрын
This actually got pinned? 😂
@gumybo4 ай бұрын
Don’t let Saturn Storm Cube get ahold of this
@Dracopol4 ай бұрын
You can see a lotta things in his hair...
@salmon_eggs4 ай бұрын
who is actually liking this comment
@ryancheckel82784 ай бұрын
lol
@Marylandbrony4 ай бұрын
Some guy in 1935: I hate Princesses Elizabeth on the money, i hope she leaves soon.
@thirdtooth40694 ай бұрын
Crazy to think that she has basically been around for the entirety of our monetary history.
@whatthepick4 ай бұрын
At the rate we change these that will be some guy in 2035
@Sorcerers_Apprentice4 ай бұрын
I think they were more worried about finding some kind of work and getting enough food to eat back then rather than who was on their money at the time, since that would have been during the Great Depression.
@user-dq7cr3cz8z3 ай бұрын
That 20 dollar bill can fetch you depending on its shape ten to twenty thousand bucks
@lordbob54033 ай бұрын
it'd be kinda cool if they left her on it, thats such a long time XD
@smithmcsmithy26454 ай бұрын
They didn’t even need to vote on the 5$ bill. Terry Fox is the only private citizen with national memorability who had no controversy around his name.
@JJMcCullough4 ай бұрын
But he’s a white man
@donovanlocust11064 ай бұрын
@JJMcCullough he's not just any white man
@kajones934 ай бұрын
@@JJMcCullough 🤔
@fredleung6164 ай бұрын
While he may be well known he has no where near the level of national momorability in Québec. He probably doesn't have anything controversial to him, but he isn't any more famous than a minor celebrity in QC.
@gregblair51394 ай бұрын
@@JJMcCullough - Offset that by putting a prominent indigenous person on the $50 bill.
@ダニエル-x5d4 ай бұрын
That's cool that you broke news of the $5 bill redesign being scrapped by asking a question on Instagram of all places haha
@rachel_sj4 ай бұрын
I’m kinda angry for JJ because the Bank of Canada didn’t even answer his question
@nerojohnson61159 күн бұрын
@rachel_sj yeah they kinda pulled a straw man tbh
@fuferito4 ай бұрын
Perfectly missed opportunity to mention our defunct beloved Canadian Tire money, J.J.
@theoriginalJP4 ай бұрын
I once bought Canadian tires, from canadian tire, with 7 hundred dollars of canadian tire money.
@en--ev4 ай бұрын
@theoriginalJP That must have been fun. Haha! I still have an old wallet full of Canadian Tire banknotes from across many years. I collected them as a kid, among my many other collections, so I could never bear to actually spent any of them. I think my prized jewel was a sky blue 50 cent bill, but I could be wrong; it's been a while since I've been able to find that wallet.
@herschelwright46634 ай бұрын
Save like Scrooge!😂
@R3troguy4 ай бұрын
He already has!
@donsample10023 ай бұрын
@@en--evIt was a real pain to be in line at a cash behind some guy buying a couple hundred bucks worth of stuff with a huge wad of Canadian Tire money
@stepanotrisal15124 ай бұрын
The "Unless you live in Europe" hits hard. They were specifically made to be inclusive and non-offensive, which is to say boring and about nothing.
@cgt37044 ай бұрын
Well we still put faces of historical figures, at least here in Romania. And two of them were known to have anti-semitic views
@Material_Monkey4 ай бұрын
They srill represent european architecural styles like renessance, baroque, gothic and so on with a fictional fassade and a fictional bridge with this style so they still represent a cultural heritage. But the coims are way more interesting with every country having their own designs for the back side and new comamorative designs coming out every year and those are also country specific
@sempersuffragium99514 ай бұрын
@@cgt3704 So what. Countries are shaped by imperfect people. I personally really dislike PM King, but I recognise, that he is, as JJ put it, objectively one of the greatest Canadian historical figures, and is thus rightly placed on the currency. I live in the EU, and I would love it, if each country could put their own people on the bill. It would be a really interesting opportunity to learn about other countries' history. And I realise that my country would probably put some politicians on, that I would not like, but, like King, they would be properly put there.
@cgt37044 ай бұрын
@@sempersuffragium9951 hey i didnt say i have a problem with it. In fact i like the people that i said (Iorga for being the biggest romanian historian and Eminescu for being an inflential figure in our literature). Like you said people that we like are not perfect and its fine by me. And i would also like that the eurozine countries would make their own versions of euro banknotes like how they do with the coins. But then again romania is not a eurozone country so who am i to judge
@stepanotrisal15124 ай бұрын
@@cgt3704 This was specifically meant to be about Euro. The rest of European currencies is still rather nice
@OriSnori4 ай бұрын
"I'm starting to appreciate his videos a lot more. I used to not understand them as much but now that I understand more, they're really interesting!" -my 10yo son
@thirdtooth40694 ай бұрын
That's a pretty encouraging thing to hear from a kid that young. I've heard some pretty concerning things about the attention span of gen alpha.
@Sorcerers_Apprentice4 ай бұрын
@@thirdtooth4069 I'd be more concerned about young men following horrible people online like Andrew Tate and Logan Paul.
@thirdtooth40694 ай бұрын
@@Sorcerers_Apprentice lol maybe, but I think I'd rather my kid was some cringey 'sigma male' than just endlessly screeching 'skibidee toilet' or whatever
@epicazeroth4 ай бұрын
That Instagram post implies the Bank of Canada only has the manpower to redesign one bill at a time for years at a time
@justinspeaks.16524 ай бұрын
Knowing what I do of how our country runs (not very well) I can't say I'm surprised.
@m.j.n.8084 ай бұрын
I love money
@thepagecollective4 ай бұрын
I like money, too!
@jimb0e1864 ай бұрын
Krabspilled
@im_theodore4 ай бұрын
🤥
@thecluckster39084 ай бұрын
Same
@SpektakOne4 ай бұрын
Me too! What’s your favorite?
@kduarte61364 ай бұрын
If you're talking about Canadian symbols, I'd suggest a full video about the Mounted Police. You've already talked about them before, but it is probably the most recognizable Canadian symbol that hasn't yet got its own video here.
@Redrally4 ай бұрын
Second
@Zoopop134 ай бұрын
omg i third that. id love to learn more. my knowledge goes as far as the cartoons, like Dudley Do Right/Brendan Fraser. possibly a Scooby Doo episode or two. typical American knowledge id say, all very stereotypical.
@brockreynolds8704 ай бұрын
I have always said that I wish American money was different colors like this. It's very practical to be able to tell the denomination of money from a distance like that.
@qualinrobbs39574 ай бұрын
I find it sort of tacky how colorful Canadian money is. A happy Medium between the garishnesses of Canadian notes and us ones
@ESUSAMEX4 ай бұрын
No. There is no good reason "to tell the denomination of the money from a distance." Besides colored money makes it look like Monopoly money-- something cheap and worthless in real life. Every time I hear foreigners, especially Europeans, complain about the lack of color in American banknotes, the more I love the American greenbacks.
@benjaminrobinson38424 ай бұрын
The most recent design actually has a bit of a tint to it. There was even a meme circulating that compared its colors to that of monopoly money.
@Jade939724 ай бұрын
@@ESUSAMEX Having the money be the same color (or very similar colors) makes harder to tell apart from close up too, especially for people with impaired vision. But it makes it quicker for everyone if its immediately obvious.
@HappyMan02034 ай бұрын
@@ESUSAMEX Very weird thing to get all patriotic about. Having them be all the same color makes it harder to easily distinguish them, and that's not getting into also how USD is so easily rippable and weak compared to other paper currency.
@sempersuffragium99514 ай бұрын
The mustache is back! The mustache is back!
@soupycask4 ай бұрын
He’s always shifted from having a mustache and not having one ever since he decided to remove it from his persona in like 2017-2018.
@andrewring82054 ай бұрын
Banknotes are my favorite thing to keep as souvenirs when I travel abroad
@Alan.Endicott4 ай бұрын
Same. I have some that no longer exist like Francs, Guilders, Lira, etc.
@grandmarshallkingwolfman4204 ай бұрын
I used to collect coins, but I do have one foreign bank note that my buddy gave to me from when he was stationed in Kosovo several years ago. It's a Macedonian banknote, though I don't remember the amount on it.
@wasserruebenvergilbungsvirus3 ай бұрын
tfw you're European and can't collect money from the places you go to as souvenir because they all use the Euro
@monotonehell4 ай бұрын
Fun fact: Australia invented the polymer banknote and started using them in 1988. But these days, like Canadia, we mostly use cards/mobile phones to pay for everything. I've had the same 'emergency' $15 in my wallet since 2020.
@Captain_MonsterFart3 ай бұрын
Use it lest they take it way from us. Many many many times that cash is the thing to use.
@chequereturned4 ай бұрын
Minor point: polymer isn’t a ‘type of flexible plastic’, but it’s almost the other way around. Polymers are basically what we mean when we say ‘plastics’. Plastic emphasises the physical properties (they can be easily bent and deformed but stay solid at standard conditions) and polymer emphasises the chemical properties (the molecules are long chains of largely repeating molecular units). All (or pretty much all?) plastic materials are made of polymers (in the main - possibly with other molecules in between), but not all polymers are plastic.
@thenotoriusg4 ай бұрын
I loved how loose and fun you were in this video! Your love for the light hearted interesting topic is contagious
@jaydirt3164 ай бұрын
Thank you for making this. As a Canadian with lots of old bills in my collection, this is a great explanation of why we have this money.
@romad3574 ай бұрын
J.J., you're not alone in not understanding banking in North America, be it colonial or post-colonial in British North America either pre or post 1776. Large bill like the $1,000, $5,000, & $10,000 were probably used for inter-bank transfers. There was even a special $100,000 bill printed in these United States specifically for transfers between branches of the Federal Reserve in 1934 & 1935.
@sempersuffragium99514 ай бұрын
The UK prints 100.000£ and even 1.000.000£ bills. And they aren't actually legal tender, until they bear the signature of the Governor
@benjaminrobinson38424 ай бұрын
I can second that: every reference I've read mentioned that the large bills were a way for banks to transfer money in as physically efficient a way as possible. Electronic fund transfers have made that method, and the bills, obsolete. Incidentally, the $100,000 bill, according to Wiki, was actually a gold certificate. Private ownership of one is actually *illegal* so if you have one of these, keep it on the sly ...
@smgoodreau4 ай бұрын
Exactly. Imagine inter-bank transfers in an era with no computers.
@retro21034 ай бұрын
In Europe, the special significance can be found on the coins. Each Eurozone country mints 1 or 2 euro coins and 50-20-10-5-2-1 cents, and on the back of each of these you will find people, icons and symbols which reveal where they were minted. It's a neat way to tell how far a coin has travelled in the Union.
@davidsradioroom96784 ай бұрын
One of your most interesting videos ever! Thanks for making this. How about a video on the maple syrup industry?
@Zalinki4 ай бұрын
Was JUST looking through your channel the other day hoping you had a video about this haha, good stuff. Also, greetings from the lower mainland
@gregblair51394 ай бұрын
The primary reason that the "paper" money is now polymer is not security (assuming that "security" means prevention and detection of counterfeiting)! The real reason is cost. While it might cost more to make these notes, they can stay in circulation much longer, which more than offsets the additional costs.
@bastardowl4 ай бұрын
Fun self-insertive fact: the Canadian polymer money is made using technology developed in Australia. I used to work with the sons of the scientist from the CSIRO who lead the project that invented it. We've had little windows in our money ever since I can remember and I'm an elder-millenial. An American exchange student at my school thought our rainbow "see-through" money was the craziest thing he'd ever seen.
Two main reasons: it's very durable and the window makes it very difficult to forge. There's actually a ton of anti-forgery measures built into polymer money that don't work with paper but the window is the most immediately obvious one to a lay person.
@mongeeses71124 ай бұрын
I was literally rewatching Half Asleep Chris’s banknote videos the other day on a whim. I swear JJ has psychic powers, but only very specifically to a random subscriber lmao.
@RandomDudeOne4 ай бұрын
The shift from cash to card/phone pay is one of the greatest scams pulled off by the banks. For this tiny bit of convenience now a bank makes 3 percent off every purchase. 3 percent may not seem much, but over a lifetime is huge. If that 3 percent were saved a person could retire years earlier. Germany seems to be the only country not to fall to this, cash is still King there.
@benjaminrobinson38424 ай бұрын
It's more complicated than that. A lot of markets are price-sensitive, so the merchants can't just charge $103 dollars for a formerly $100 item. Instead, they're stuck with lower profits. It's the reason why some small businesses no longer accept credit cards. (I've heard that debit cards don't carry this "penalty" yet, so apparently this doesn't affect *all* card transactions.)
@900bot24 ай бұрын
Japan still runs primarily cash as well.
@donbeyer22934 ай бұрын
That's where the money comes from so cardholders get 2% cash back or airline miles which the airlines get billions. It's a massive kickback scheme paid for buy merchants. Credit cards even skim form charity donations.
@thirdtooth40694 ай бұрын
Return to physical money my son
@Sorcerers_Apprentice4 ай бұрын
There's no perfect solution, just trade-offs. Using a credit card gives you a secure, solid record of your transaction and makes tracking/budgeting easier. If your cash is stolen, it's impossible to trace or get back. I have reported suspicious transactions or produced records of buying tickets to events like concerts or hotels that I cancelled and each time, I just forwarded my information and the credit card company refunded my money in a timely manner. If it were cash, I would have to hope I didn't lose my receipt and would have had to do something like small claims court to get my refund.
@PabSungenis4 ай бұрын
The $25 bill was actually a single year commemorative issue for George V’s silver jubilee. ($25 for 25 years on the throne.) This is why it was not included in the 1937 series.
@kbhas4 ай бұрын
Hey J.J.! I'm the guy you met at VPL yesterday 😅. I guess I was a bit star-struck and had a "tongue-tied" situation - couldn’t say a word! I wanted to ask about your next video, but my brain decided to take a vacation at that moment. Just wanted to say your videos are incredibly informative, especially for a non-native like me. Thanks for all the awesome content!
@Marc.1776.4 ай бұрын
Hey JJ. It’s so interesting that you made this video. I just came back from Hong Kong, and I was surprised to see that they still had private banks issuing money, so there were several designs for each denomination depending on the bank that printed it. My favorite was the lion motif on the HSBC banknotes, which was originally a British company.
@bjdon994 ай бұрын
It’s interesting that the original Dominion bills were very similar to US greenbacks issued the same era.
@hlynnkeith93344 ай бұрын
JJ, RE: $1,000 bill utility My father was a general contractor who built custom homes. In the '60s, he routinely carried eight Grovers in his wallet. (The portrait on the $1,000 bill was that of Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th president of the United States. Hence, $1,000 bills were called Grovers.) He used these to pay for first shipments from new suppliers. It got their attention, and they all extended him credit thereafter.
@tomhalla4264 ай бұрын
In the US, slang for cash is “dead Presidents”, even though Hamilton and Franklin were never President.
@jameslonogan17994 ай бұрын
Hence the bank heist film “Dead Presidents”
@southcoastinventors65834 ай бұрын
Not that anyone every says it so can really be considered slang.
@tacticaljunk16084 ай бұрын
You're only allowed to call money that if you're committing a crime so that you sound more ominous and badass.
@rachel_sj4 ай бұрын
If only we had JFK on one of our bills, The Dead Kennedys would also make sense as a bad name (aside from the assassinations)
@soupycask4 ай бұрын
I am American and have lived here my whole life, i have never ever heard this slang term ever, not in real life, online, or in any form of American media. Where are you getting this from?
@JackRackam4 ай бұрын
I gotta commend Canada for some consistently great designs on the back of their money
@OriSnori4 ай бұрын
So apt. My kids just asked about the term "banknotes" and we're gonna enjoy your video together, as we often do.
@IPrayForHam3 ай бұрын
Congrats on the inevitable 1 MILLION SUBS! It’s right around the corner and your content has only gotten better since I subbed. Thanks for the content man!
@anthonyminimum4 ай бұрын
4:18 despite not technically being fully independent from the British Empire. It, South Africa and Australia were dominions, and being a dominion under the British was like being an autonomous entity, you have some kind of independence from your mother country but you have to rely on them for other things like protection and food
@hrolfthestrange4 ай бұрын
I would imagine the advantage in introducing a single new note is that people accepting the money only need to learn to identify and verify a single denominatiom at a time. Like if you ran a store, and all new money dropped up and down the scale, it would probably be easier for counterfeits to pass off fake bills since the store is trying to adapt to all of them at once. Also besides security it probably provides a bit of a buffer gauge public reaction to new design types so if the one really misses the mark and people see something risque in the design for example, they can modify the next design drops and more selectively address the denomination that went out.
@Atlantjan4 ай бұрын
In the Eurozone countries, our coins take over our national design choices. It's actually a lot of fun to pay with coins from 20+ states in your own country. It adds probably even more detail than paper money alone. Also, for the convenience of not having to exchange your money while shopping online, while on holiday, or for millions even their job abroad it's totally worth it.
@whimsicalgrizzlybear54964 ай бұрын
I was a part time teller years ago at one of Canada's big banks years ago, and I heard part of the reason they scrapped the $1000 was because the RCMP had money laundering concerns with them
@Bacopa683 ай бұрын
The EU used to have a 500 note meant to replace the US 100 as the preferred money laundering bill. They ditched it because they thought laundering money cost more in taxes than the reserve value of the currency propped up the treasury. Meanwhile, the US prints 100's knowing many of them will disappear. Losses to tax income are balanced by criminals using the bills as a reserve currency.
@sempersuffragium99514 ай бұрын
My first JJ video ever was the one where he discussed his banknote collection. And I've been hooked ever since
@golbez37944 ай бұрын
i honestly wish we could all go back to paper currency...
@simplicitylost4 ай бұрын
The coins! I always found the coins so interesting when one or two strays would inevitably mix in with US money. Always seemed to be either Canadian or Bahamian money.
@lajya014 ай бұрын
I've always liked US vending machines accepting Canadian quarters. The owner on the other hand...
@simplicitylost4 ай бұрын
@@lajya01 I wasn’t sure if that was the reason or because maybe they just looked similar to US coins unless you looked closely. As a kid, it seemed like the 10¢ (with the sailboat) was the one most commonly mixed in with change. The 1¢ (with the maple leaf) was also fairly common. The 25¢ (with the reindeer) occasionally snuck in, and then most rarely seemed to be the 5¢ (with the beaver). The loonies and toonies never got mixed in, which makes sense since $1 coins were/are rare and we don’t have a $2 coin. Only thing more common than finding Canadian coins in your change was finding the 1¢ Bahamian coin (with the starfish). I don’t know why that one also crept in so much. And never did Mexican coinage sneak its way in. Not sure if that’s because I’ve always lived around DC - I wonder if near the border that’s more common or maybe Mexican coins look different enough.
@ZuperZocker4 ай бұрын
17:29 I was just in Montreal for work (from the US). I noticed how almost everywhere accepted or even pushed for credit card use except for a single noodle shop we stopped in that only accepted cash or debit (which is a card, I know, and I always carry my debit too, so no issue), which stuck out as an anomaly
@BagMonster4 ай бұрын
Glad you finally got around to this! I thought it was interesting that there was a "tug of war" of sorts between royal figures and Canadian people on the money, I sort of assumed the proportion of royalty would stay consistent.
@CaptainRaccoonWhitly4 ай бұрын
I remember Terry Fox being a popular frontrunner for the $5 bill. Would've loved to see that, honestly.
@Couscous774 ай бұрын
Hey JJ! I always enjoy your videos on cultural Canadian topics. I suggest doing an episode on Canadian Pacific Railways and their history. My mom has a book with a lot of their posters advertising resort destinations and the designs alone make for a great subject. Places like Lake Louise, Banff, so many more are included and its just full of Canadian landmarks that each show off the local culture. They’re all 60’s style posters in amazing colors and styles we just never see anymore. I think there’s something in there that would make for a great JJ vid. Cheers!
@TheEldritchHyena4 ай бұрын
Did the Union Pacific run into Canada at some point? I've been a lover of railways my entire life and I've always known it to be predominately in the United States. It's even headquartered in my home state of Nebraska, which is pretty cool!
@Couscous774 ай бұрын
@@TheEldritchHyena I totally mistyped - I meant Canadian Pacific. The book is called ‘Posters of the Canadian Pacific’
@donbeyer22934 ай бұрын
@@TheEldritchHyena No. The UP has never operated in Canada. It connects with CP at Eastport Idaho at the Canadian Border.
@Brick-Life4 ай бұрын
When I went to Vancouver in sep 2019, using the ATM at the North Vancouver Lonsdale Quay Market I got 3 of the old 2004 $20 notes.
@21Kyzix124 ай бұрын
Money redesigns are always interesting. I've only lived in 2 countries the US and Japan, and my entire experience with Canadian money was always just accidentally receiving random coins in change as a child in the US, so it's cool to see a more in-depth view of the bills. Have you thought of doing one on the coins as well? Also, on a side-note, here in Japan we are getting all new bills this year in July.
@AmonAmarthFan6094 ай бұрын
I just thought I’d mention...it’s misleading to refer to polymers as a “type of plastic”. The word “plastic”, fundamentally, is an adjective which means that something will hold whatever shape it is molded into after the force is removed. The opposite of plastic is elastic (did you ever notice that the two words are only different by their first letter?), which means that something will, by itself, return to the shape it had before it was deformed by an external force. The word “plastic” when used as a noun, to refer to a type of material, is actually a shortening of “plastic polymer”. Any material being called a “plastic” is one of many types of polymers that have plasticity as a property. There are also other materials, such as aluminum, which have plasticity but are not polymers, and therefore not in the category of “plastics”. And similarly, there are polymers which are not plastically deformable, such as synthetic rubber, which are also not categorized as plastics because they are,...well...not plastic (the adjective). Basically, it’s not that polymer is a type of plastic. Its the other way around. All plastics are polymers, but not all polymers are plastics.
@SocieteRoyale4 ай бұрын
in Scotland and Northern Ireland several banks are still legally allowed to issue paper money so you get a wide range of different circulating notes, when I visit I always go the cash machine to get a few different ones out. I love the designs the independent banks put on them, from figures such as Robert the Bruce to some super generic coat of arms
@ZenithLegend4 ай бұрын
My favourite is the $2 bill from the 1980's "Birds of Canada" series with the nice pair of robins on the back. Also, you never showed the back of the $1000 bill from this era, which was quite similar to the $2 bill, this time with two "pine grosbeaks" on it! I only ever saw it once in person.
@IanZainea19904 ай бұрын
14:21 polymer is also good for longevity too. The less frequently they have to print new bills the better! It's why you can regularly seen coinage that is 50+ years old, but a bill from just 20 years ago is harder to come by
@judgesaturn5074 ай бұрын
This video reminds me a lot of when I started watching your content in 2018. I remember that old video about weird money from around the world. The other thing I remembered was that weird theory that one of the Canadian bills had the American flag on it even though it was actually the old Canadian flag.
@memesahoy794 ай бұрын
Classic JJ McCullough video
@xxOmponxx4 ай бұрын
I fondly remember the 2001 era 5 dollar bill because I was on a long layover from Cincinnati to Rome in Toronto. I had to exchange some US cash to buy food and by the time I left Canada I still had Sir Laurier in my wallet for the whole trip.
@jonnyminogue4 ай бұрын
I was just up in Montréal two weeks ago and was wondering when the Twenty Lizzy was going to get updated. Now I know. Plus, I’m glad to know who’s on the Ten. Both bills came back to the States with me
@joltkip70794 ай бұрын
I got so much nostalgia by seeing the hockey players on the 2001 $5 bill again
@wbrian5074 ай бұрын
You forgot to mention that the Bank of Canada dips its new polymer bills in rich Canadian Maple Syrup
@jpmaza4 ай бұрын
Great video! I had no idea Canadian money used so much color. Speaking of color, loving the more gray in your hair and stubble. So cute! Keeping your look natural as you age is refreshing, especially for someone who’s on video so much. Keep up the good work educating us Americans!
@professordogwood89854 ай бұрын
11:00 Actually JJ, the Toonie was introduced in 1996, partway through the fifth generation run of the bill series, where the two dollar bills were slowly phased out. Keeping with the birds and nature theme, we got two polar bears on the coin which went well with the creation of Nunavut in 1997. Most millenials will remember this was the point where "pop" (soda, softdrinks, etc...) became more expensive in their school vending machines now that two dollars was considered pocket change.
@NickCBax3 ай бұрын
I’ve heard in the US that a $1,000 note was mostly for banks to pay each other, before wiring money or settling through a central bank was commonplace.
@krgoodrich14 ай бұрын
There was a conspiracy theory in the US at one time about the flag over parliament being an American flag on one the older bills. Americans didn’t even know the Dominion flag existed.
@SAAMAverageman4 ай бұрын
It'd be nice to get a follow up video on the evolution of Canadian coins as well.
@gregblair51394 ай бұрын
The original reason for putting the reigning monarch on the money - which long predates the British Empire - was "security." Specifically, this was a way to make counterfeiting a direct offence against the king!
@davidmehling43104 ай бұрын
How about Canadian coinage? The penny is discontinued, but has the maple leaf and the nickel has a beaver, the two most iconic Canadian symbols.
@propernoun15834 ай бұрын
I absolutely hate the new 10 dollar bill design. It’s vertical design is bizarre, and it features a non-politician who was never a leader.
@MrGib174 ай бұрын
Agreed. If they were going to make such a radical change it should have happened to everything all at once. I hope they don’t continue that style.
@georgelloydgonzalez4 ай бұрын
It was either Ms. Desmond, or Kim Campbell 😂
@lajya014 ай бұрын
I couldn't care less about who is on the bill but the vertical design is a pain in the butt. It's hard to read and no machine would accept it.
@justinspeaks.16524 ай бұрын
@@georgelloydgonzalez Even Campbell was relevant. Granted for all the wrong reasons but the point still stands.
@jecarlin4 ай бұрын
@@georgelloydgonzalez The runner up to the face of the Canadian $10 bill was actually E. Pauline Johnson.
@gregblair51394 ай бұрын
In the US, only deceased persons are allowed to be on money or postage stamps. I think that the same rule applies in Canada, with the exception of royalty.
@oliverjurick4674 ай бұрын
I would love to see a video about the history of Canadian coins.
@drvelocci4 ай бұрын
I also love how colourful some Canadians coins can be. Whether it’s for circulation coins or collectible coins
@ethanmackler11604 ай бұрын
Especially with the Canucks in the playoffs, at least as of now, hockey/Canucks/sport in Canada and how that connects with national identity. Turning lacrosse from an Iroquois game into an official sport of the whole country, hockey and Canadianness as hockey spread and basketball and stuff moved in, CFL, that sort of thing. You've talked less about sports than a lot of other things, and yes I saw the sports balls video etc. Feel like it could be cool. Re money, I'd love to see America go to polymer but different shades of green instead of the monopoly style.
@audiooddities99824 ай бұрын
Its funny this video came up as my 9 yest old son found a Canadian $5 at school a few days ago. Weird, as we live in the Central Valley of California. It's the one with the hockey game on the back. He asked if it was worth anything, and i told him "Yeah, about 3.50 in American dollars!" Which i then had explain conversion rates to him.
@gorgeousgeorge51734 ай бұрын
Be aware, the Cdn banks hate paper money. Try withdrawing or depositing more than a couple thousand bucks. Its next to impossible without several bank employees giving you the gears.
@jerryappleby4 ай бұрын
They have to as part of their internal workings. Any large cash transactions must be reported to the government to prevent things like fraud/money laundering/terrorist financing, etc. It's not only the banks that have to do this, nearly anything where large amounts of cash pass through must be recorded. Car dealerships for example, money transfers, and more.
@gorgeousgeorge51734 ай бұрын
@@jerryappleby 5-10k is hardly a large amount of money. You sure they are protecting against fraud, or laundering? Cos if they are, my guess is they think most Cdns are broke-asses that can only manage $200 without something dubious taking place.
@professordogwood89854 ай бұрын
Yeah but the casinos here in BC seemed all too happy to take large quantities of it from offshore gamblers.
@gorgeousgeorge51734 ай бұрын
@@professordogwood8985 I can see why being above board is a derp game. You're better off bobbing and weaving with the underground if you're a Cdn who simply did well in life and wants to be left alone.
@professordogwood89854 ай бұрын
@@gorgeousgeorge5173I respect that Gorgeous, a lot of farmers like cash transactions for their roadside stands and whatnot.
@ryancheckel82784 ай бұрын
John A MacDonnald deserves to be on the $10 note. Viola Desmond deserves the new $1000 note.
@YumYumTV-wt4si4 ай бұрын
who in here needs a J.J. podcast 🤚
@fortkatana4u4 ай бұрын
I’ve always wanted this
@hamilburger7344 ай бұрын
Facts
@elisexxiv4 ай бұрын
being born in 2002 the 2001 set gives me the kind of nostalgia you have for the previous one
@vitaminluke55974 ай бұрын
I'm loony for JJ vids (I know that's a coin)
@evman79114 ай бұрын
14:00 in not against having new people on the bills, but McDonald is our first prime minister. He should be on a bill no questions asked. How is the queen/king on bills when they aren’t even Canadian? Put McDonald back on the 10, or take Liz off the 20 and put him on
@MrGib174 ай бұрын
Liz is/was the legal head of state. She deserves the be on the 20. I vote to put McDonald back on the 10.
@TheKelsey4 ай бұрын
Building the world's tenth largest economy, based off of board game money. The greatest scam there ever was.
@zch74914 ай бұрын
It's a worldwide scam, global delusional
@danielgertler59764 ай бұрын
Multicoloured money is actually normal, rhe US' monocolour is actually the strange one. Very useful to open your wallet and instantly knowing what money you have is very useful
@Will03984 ай бұрын
I still have Canadian money in my wallet from my visit last year and like to show people how cool it is.
@darktimes62794 ай бұрын
You are literally my source of all knowledge for Canadian things.
@LucasSchimmel4 ай бұрын
Brazilian currency has no people (a while back we did have a banknote with Pedro Alvares Cabral, which is like Colombo for Brazil), only the Effigy of the Republic, a figure whose name is very self-explanatory and I believe is shared with Portugal. On the other side they feature animals that represent some of Brazil's fauna (some of which are not necessarily famous or endemic): some hummingbird species (R$ 1, discontinued), a turtle (R$ 2), an egret (R$ 5), a macaw (R$ 10), a monkey (R$ 20), a jaguar (R$ 50), a fish (R$ 100) and a maned wolf (R$ 200, I don't know if it was discontinued).
@glenquagmire43404 ай бұрын
The monopoly man is on Canadian money.
@bensrandomshows14824 ай бұрын
The plastic isn't primarily for security, though that could be an additional reason, it now is so much more durable and doesn't need to be more readily released
@cassettte4 ай бұрын
I'm a simple guy. I see J.J. video, I click.
@teenyweenykiwi4 ай бұрын
Fun fact: on the current dollars (the horizontal ones) the holographic sections become full colour portraits if you hold them just right. Yes, I spend way too much time looking at money.
@p111114 ай бұрын
Macdonald looks a bit like Wonka
@UsefulCharts4 ай бұрын
Have you ever seen the guy who sells books on the sidewalk of Commercial Drive by the skytrain entrance? He's Viola Desmond's nephew.
@JJMcCullough4 ай бұрын
Is that so 😮
@lazarbro4 ай бұрын
Canada's money is reddit
@alecschambach38474 ай бұрын
I think it could be interesting to look at Canadian road signs/highway markers and the significance behind certain colors and symbols. I know the US interstate system has some distinct characteristics and I wonder if Canada does as well
@omisan7714 ай бұрын
The current 10 dollar bill is ridiculous. Viola Desmond is not any more important than anyone who suffered a minor injustice. What's next, a bum that got wrongly roughed up by cops on our 5 dollar bill?
@Lvlaple4Ever4 ай бұрын
Don't give Justin Turdeau any more ideas 😂
@brandonrequa48054 ай бұрын
I could see a father and son Pierre Elliot and Justin Trudeau combo to replace Liberal Wilfred Laurier, with a child swimming in Rideau Lakes on the backside to possibly recognize the passing of Michel Trudeau.
@Interrobang26264 ай бұрын
You did the paper money... now I think you should delve into the history of the coins!
@cgt37044 ай бұрын
0:32 Non-Eurozone countries: EXCUSE ME !!!!
@neskey4 ай бұрын
16:14 the funniest thing about the news of the modern redesign of the 20 is that now the queen's impression turned in my head from formal portrait to confused paranoia
@DarkLink6064 ай бұрын
As a Brazilian, I must comment: look at all that pink and purple! Man, our money sure is gay.
@lajya014 ай бұрын
Multi-colored money does look kinda gay but it sure is convenient.
@Lemonroots4 ай бұрын
Nice to learn about bills, would've been cool to see more about the coins too, elaborating more on loonies and toonies and lower denominations
@wiifitt4 ай бұрын
How much coke is on Canadian money compared to American money?
@southcoastinventors65834 ай бұрын
You shouldn't use money for soda coasters
@AndresRodriguezGuapacha4 ай бұрын
I live in Quebec and your channel is my main source for Canadian things. 😅
@Jabberwockybird4 ай бұрын
Will the king Charles bill be creepy red like the new portrait?
@bobDotJS4 ай бұрын
Is there a video like this about US money? I enjoyed this as an American and am realizing I want to experience this same video but with a touch of nostalgia.
@jecarlin4 ай бұрын
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@el_tristo3 ай бұрын
The $10 also got a redesign released in 2017 for Canada 150 featuring 4 people, including MacDonald, on one side and 4 images, along with a Northern Lights design, on the other
@stanbrown324 ай бұрын
Re: all the royalty on Canada's first banknotes--a very traditional way to stress Canada's distinctiveness from the United States is to stress the Canadian monarchy.