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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;krispy, post: 1208941, member: 19065&quot;]While cost effectiveness (production) and increased security are top&nbsp; priorities, longevity in circulation may not be as high on the list as&nbsp; we may consider to be necessary. The ability to remove notes, improve&nbsp; security features and replace them quickly is crucial. The materials for&nbsp; the polymer notes are readily available, harder to fake and of a&nbsp; recycleable nature, easy to destroy and replace/reprint new ones. That&nbsp; aids security and benefits production costs. Getting a polymer substrate&nbsp; into production is probably much more expedient than creating huge&nbsp; rolls of perfected linen paper, on many levels. I have seen estimates of&nbsp; 2-4x the life span of polymer to that of paper, but above all else,&nbsp; *security* is the primary factor, which is what makes these notes so&nbsp; important while we still use physical printed currencies. </p><p><br /></p><p>Many&nbsp; people love the design of old security engraved paper currencies, but&nbsp; much of what people respond to aesthetically are very cleverly&nbsp; implemented security features woven into artistic vignettes and&nbsp; flourishes to foil counterfeiters and protect the currency, not just to&nbsp; please the eye. I defend modern notes&#039; designs often by trying to get&nbsp; people to look past simple aesthetics, especially thought appaulling in&nbsp; modern note design, and try to suggest we all learn to notice the&nbsp; elegance in high security devices in place in modern notes. All of them&nbsp; are unique and of equal importance and take their place numismatic&nbsp; appreciation and study. </p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s a decent site with more info/examples of Polymer notes from around the world:<a href="http://www.polymernotes.com/index.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.polymernotes.com/index.html" rel="nofollow"> <b>Polymernotes.com</b></a></p><p><br /></p><p>also a bit on Wikipedia:<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymer_banknote" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymer_banknote" rel="nofollow"> Polymer_banknote</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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