Pounds Can Be Good Looking….. If They Are UK Pounds

I have an upcoming trip to the UK in July. My bank told me they needed 2-4 weeks to get me some UK currency so I ordered it Monday and it came today….. Anyway I was admiring the artistic hand lent to each bill. But what I found most interesting is that the bills get sequentially smaller with smaller denominations. Something I bet a person with poor eyesight would much appreciate…… No real point. Just thought they were good looking bills.

 

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Most of the world currency is better looking then the U.S. We have some of the ugliest coins and paper money around.

 

@Randy Abercrombie You are just in time as The paper £20 note will no longer be accepted as legal tender from 30 September 2022.
Spend any you have while you are there unless they are the new polymer notes.
As they are returned to the Bank of England, these are being replaced with the new polymer £20 notes featuring J.M.W. Turner, and polymer £50 notes featuring Alan Turing. After 30 September 2022, the new polymer notes will be the only ones with legal tender status.

 

I was wondering what the composition was. The notes do feel very slick and extremely light. My initial impression were that they felt quite fragile.

 

Many times stronger than paper. But, like I mentioned, if you receive any paper ones in change during your trip, spend them.

 

I'm guessing Randy won't have any trouble exercising your suggestion.

 

Isn't it great to be really excited about some up coming event? I can remember feeling that way many times in my life and the endorphins it gives us almost makes it necessary to put a puppy training mat under us. LOL

 

This got me to thinking. Years ago when my wife’s great grandmother was sick and near death she whispered in my wife’s ear to retrieve the cash she has tucked away behind a loose brick in her fireplace. My wife did exactly that and found bill after bill rolled up tight as a toothpick. All told as I recall there was more than $300.00 tucked away in that fireplace. Most interesting is that the notes were all very old. That was in the mid 1980’s and the bills were from the 50’s and 60’s as I recall. I wish I would have swapped some of them at the time before they were deposited in her grandma’s account, but I was young and poor back then…… But it leads me to wonder if somebody found a stash of old cash like that in the UK…. Would they just lose the value entirely?

 

The Bank of England usually publicises the last date they can be redeemed after they have been de-monetised. In other words, even though they cannot be spent in commerce, they will be accepted by the Central Bank for a limited time.

 

So notes like these have to be taken to a bank (cannot be used in a store)?

 

Totally off topic, I apologize, but I discovered this fact today and had to share. The painter of this well known work was born in Liverpool...

 

They have not been officially discontinued, although they are hardly ever seen these days in circulation. Mainly in parts of Scotland are they seen.

 

Every unredeemed note the Bank of England has ever issued can be exchanged at the Bank itself.