{"id":887,"date":"2015-03-11T17:06:47","date_gmt":"2015-03-11T06:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/ephemera\/?p=887"},"modified":"2020-11-17T12:39:41","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T01:39:41","slug":"the-fake-bank-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_paper\/the-fake-bank-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"The fake bank notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/deapaper\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Cash.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-888 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_paper\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Cash.jpg\" alt=\"Fake bank notes\" width=\"567\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_paper\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Cash.jpg 567w, https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_paper\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Cash-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_paper\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Cash-530x404.jpg 530w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 567px) 100vw, 567px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I found these two big pineapples lying around \u2013 oversize $50 bills offering discounts of various kinds. It\u2019s not unusual to get them in the letterbox promoting something or other, which just shows the degree to which great marketing minds think alike.<\/p>\n<p>Do they work? Presumably they do or they wouldn\u2019t be circulated, although I\u2019ve always suspected they are so hedged around with T&amp;Cs as to render them practically worthless (plus I only ever seem to find them or remember them long after I need them or the offer has expired). Not worth the paper they are printed on, so to speak.<\/p>\n<p>I like the fact that despite the fake notes being about twice the size of real ones and covered in logos and text, one of them is still stamped with Not Legal Tender, just in case anyone is fool enough to be taken in by such obvious copies. While the notes are required to be <a title=\"Reproducing banknotes\" href=\"http:\/\/banknotes.rba.gov.au\/legal\/reproducing-banknotes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">different sizes<\/a> to the original, there is no legal necessity for them to include such a disclaimer.<\/p>\n<p>Interesting too that only David Unaipon is reproduced whereas Edith Cowan, a noted campaigner for women\u2019s rights, is ignored on the other side.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_paper\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Shredded-paper-grey-sm.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-513 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_paper\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Shredded-paper-grey-sm.png\" alt=\"shredded paper\" width=\"200\" height=\"158\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found these two big pineapples lying around \u2013 oversize $50 bills offering discounts of various kinds. It\u2019s not unusual to get them in the letterbox promoting something or other, which just shows the degree to which great marketing minds think alike. Do they work? Presumably they do or they wouldn\u2019t be circulated, although I\u2019ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":888,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cards_and_leaflets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_paper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_paper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_paper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_paper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_paper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=887"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_paper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1171,"href":"https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_paper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887\/revisions\/1171"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_paper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_paper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_paper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_paper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}