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The scent is strongest, some Canadians say, when the plastic bills are warm. The Bank of Canada says it didn’t add a maple smell, leaving the country with money that can seem to smell like its most famous syrup by accident.
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Canadian Tire introduced its cash-bonus coupons in 1958. Customers could accumulate the paper notes and redeem them for goods, turning a discount into…
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The Federal Reserve's 2025 estimate gives a $100 note an average life of about 24 years, compared with 7.2 years for a dollar bill. Large notes often sit as…
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Kurdish communities kept spending the old dinars even after Saddam’s government declared them invalid. With no new notes coming off the presses, each…
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Confederate dollars were a bet on winning the war. The notes depended on a government whose survival was still being fought over. Heavy issuance, shortages,…
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The European Central Bank stopped producing the denomination partly over concerns about illicit use. Existing notes kept their value and legal-tender status.…
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Fresh U.S. bills were hard to come by, so people tried to keep their worn one-dollar notes usable. Some ran them through washing machines with soap, then hung…
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