I found a load of the ones with Michael Faraday on when I moved into my new place over 10 years ago. Still haven’t got around to banking them. I’m assuming I can’t spend them as they’re the really, really old ones.
Isn’t this just taking money out of the already fucked economy?
As if anyone is going to need a £50 note in 100 days time…
Is this because we’re switching to bottle caps for the impending apocalypse?
The Bank of England will always change them.
A few years ago I found some old £50 notes from when I was travelling around in Europe back in the late 90s and got them exchanged at the BoE (did a £2 Megabus return trip).
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Good stuff, much better for the environment. Rather than using thousands of trees you use about half the fat from one cow. Vegans and the like need to look stuff up and pick their battles more carefully.
I keep hearing on the radio and TV that they’re going to be usless after the cut off date, this is completely untrue.
I still come across old £5 and £10 paper notes (in my work) and the bank takes them every time, they just get sent back to the BoE for destruction.
>**Our notes always keep their face value**. If your local bank, building society or post office won’t accept them, then you can exchange them with us.
What do drug dealers do with all their cash? The big time guys with tens of thousands under their mattress or whatever.
Pretty soon they’re going to be rendered as useless as.. Well… As useless as the current plastic notes will be in about 6 months times what with all the workers striking bringing the economy to collapse!
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I found a load of the ones with Michael Faraday on when I moved into my new place over 10 years ago. Still haven’t got around to banking them. I’m assuming I can’t spend them as they’re the really, really old ones.
Isn’t this just taking money out of the already fucked economy?
As if anyone is going to need a £50 note in 100 days time…
Is this because we’re switching to bottle caps for the impending apocalypse?
The Bank of England will always change them.
A few years ago I found some old £50 notes from when I was travelling around in Europe back in the late 90s and got them exchanged at the BoE (did a £2 Megabus return trip).
Edit: typos
Good stuff, much better for the environment. Rather than using thousands of trees you use about half the fat from one cow. Vegans and the like need to look stuff up and pick their battles more carefully.
I keep hearing on the radio and TV that they’re going to be usless after the cut off date, this is completely untrue.
I still come across old £5 and £10 paper notes (in my work) and the bank takes them every time, they just get sent back to the BoE for destruction.
From the [BoE page](https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/knowledgebank/what-is-legal-tender):
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>**Our notes always keep their face value**. If your local bank, building society or post office won’t accept them, then you can exchange them with us.
What do drug dealers do with all their cash? The big time guys with tens of thousands under their mattress or whatever.
Pretty soon they’re going to be rendered as useless as.. Well… As useless as the current plastic notes will be in about 6 months times what with all the workers striking bringing the economy to collapse!