New £5 note launched on Tuesday 13th September

[6Foot2]

Doesn't that technically count as defacing them?

 

Link: Banknote Reproduction Guidelines | Bank of England

 

...Under the Currency & Banknotes Act 1928 it is illegal to deface our banknotes (by printing, writing or impressing upon them words, letters or figures, etc.), although the question of whether or not to prosecute in individual cases is up to the police and the courts...

So, yeah I guess so.

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Link: £5 notes with tiny, hidden Jane Austen engravings worth up to £50,000...

 

Link: Ultra-rare Jane Austen £5 note found in Christmas card in Scottish Borders

 

...It is the fiver that could earn you tens of thousands of pounds: one of four Jane Austen £5 notes has been found in a Christmas card in the Scottish Borders.

 

The ultra-rare notes, engraved with a tiny portrait of the novelist, were released secretly around the UK earlier this month.

 

The first was found in change from a cafe in south Wales a fortnight ago. The second was discovered on Thursday in a Christmas card, meaning two are yet to be discovered...

[Arthur]

A no-brainer IMO.

 

New £5 note: Bank to keep note despite animal fat content

 

The new £5 note will not be withdrawn, despite concerns that it contains traces of animal fat, the Bank of England says.

 

The Bank said it had concluded it would be "appropriate" to keep the £5 polymer note in circulation.

 

It will also issue the £10 polymer note as planned in September, it added.

 

The Bank gave "careful consideration to the possible alternative options for the current £5 note and the Jane Austen £10 polymer note".

 

Posted in the other fiver thread too.

Edited February 15, 2017 by Arthur

[6Foot2]

Link: £5 notes with tiny, hidden Jane Austen engravings worth up to £50,000...

 

Link: Mystery Irish woman gives £50k fiver to charity - BBC News

 

An Irish woman who found a rare five-pound note engraved with a portrait of Jane Austen has donated it to charity.

 

The note, worth an estimated £50,000, was found in Northern Ireland by a woman known only as "J".

 

She sent the fiver back to the Scottish gallery it came from, and asked for it to be used to benefit a charitable cause.

 

"£5 note enclosed, I don't need it at my time of life. Please use it to help young people," she wrote...

 

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Link: Warning over fake new £5 notes - here's how to spot them - Mirror Online

 

Warning over fake new £5 notes - here's how to spot them

 

The Bank of England says it is unaware of forged polymer notes but has admitted the fiver's design has been copied to paper in a small number of cases...

[Garacesh]

Link: Warning over fake new £5 notes - here's how to spot them - Mirror Online

 

Check the Elizabeth Tower (Big Ben) is gold on the front of the note and silver on the back.

TIL that Big Ben actually has a 'proper' name

[6Foot2]

TIL that Big Ben actually has a 'proper' name

Yeah. Sloppy work.

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Link: https://twitter.com/d4nji/status/838021254141591552/photo/1 [Twitter Picture]

 

ONE OF MY MUMS EMPLOYEES ACCEPTED THIS AS PAYMENT HAHAHAHA

 

 

[6Foot2]

[Dos_Box]

 

Nice, but will it blend?

[FN-GM]

 

They show a picture of an old fiver in the thumbnail?

[6Foot2]

They show a picture of an old fiver in the thumbnail?

They found that soaking the old fiver in fuming nitric acid and then drying it makes the old fiver behave like flash paper when it burns (leaves no ash) It is used by illusionists for this reason.

 

 

Edit: Flash paper is used by illusionists, not old fivers.

 

Edited April 11, 2017 by 6Foot2

[6Foot2]

Reminder: After today the old (non-polymer) £5 notes are no longer legal tender.

[Arthur]

www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/Pages/about/exchanges.aspx

 

Exchanging withdrawn Bank of England banknotes

Genuine Bank of England banknotes retain their face value for all time and can be exchanged at the Bank of England in London. Banknotes of this type can be exchanged either by post or in person. This service is free of charge.

 

www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39792170

 

Millions of paper fivers are still in purses, wallets and piggy banks, despite the banknote ceasing to be legal tender by the weekend.

 

The Bank of England said 150 million of its paper £5 notes - the equivalent of about three for every adult in the UK - remain with the public.

 

Shops may refuse them from Saturday, although banks should exchange them.

 

The change to polymer £5 notes marks a temporary absence of women, apart from the Queen, on the Bank's banknotes.