英国央行宣布将推出塑料钞票

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Ian Austen and Nathaniel Popper, 英国央行宣布将推出塑料钞票. 纽约时报中文网, Dec 20, 2013  
cn.nytimes.com/business/20131220/c20polymer/

, which is translated from

Ian Austen and Nathaniel Popper, Paper or Plastic: Britain Joining Currency Trend. New York Times, Dec 19, 2013.

Quote:

"Bank of England announced on Wednesday [Dec 18] that it would adopt polymer notes[, following the example of Australia and about two dozen other countries, including Mauritius, Morocco and Mexico]. The Bank of England said that the new notes, in 5- and 10-pound denominations, would be harder to counterfeit.

"The growing acceptance of polymer notes has lured the largest printer of bank notes in the world, the British company De La Rue, into the business. After four years of development, its first polymer bills were printed this year for Fiji.

"The Mexican central bank estimates that although polymer notes cost about twice as much to make, they last about 3.5 times longer.

"Blind people say they like the polymer money because embossed marks that help them identify denominations do not wear away.

Note:
(a) polymer banknote
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymer_banknote
(first issued as currency in Australia in 1988
(coinciding with that country's Bicentenary year))

* Australia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australi

Quote:

After the discovery of the continent by Dutch explorers in 1606 [Willem Janszoon, who sighted, and made landfall on, Cape York Peninsula that is just south to present-day Papua-New Guinea], Australia's eastern half was claimed by Great Britain in 1770 [through captain James Cook] and settled through penal transportation to the colony of New South Wales from Jan 26, 1788.

"In 1770, James Cook sailed along and mapped the east coast, which he named New South Wales and claimed for Great Britain.[48] With the loss of its American colonies in 1780, the British Government sent a fleet of ships, the 'First Fleet,' under the command of Captain Arthur Phillip, to establish a new penal colony in New South Wales.

(b) Some currency denominations in Mexico are still made of paper.
(c) De La Rue
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_La_Rue
(founded by Thomas de la Rue [1793-1866; from Germany], who moved to London in 1821 and set up in business as a stationer and printer