How can any legally issued tender no longer be legal if they’ve changed the portrait a few years down the road???
The Bank of England stops accepting them after a certain date, so shops aren’t legally required to accept them either.
The central bank has printed an initial run of a billion of the new notes, which are known in Britain as “tenners”
For any non-Brits wondering, yes, £5 notes are called “fivers” and £20 are called “twentiers”.
Not exactly regular - the current note’s been in circulation since 2000.
Yes last time it was the “fivers” that caught me out then the time before it was the twenties. Now I am also stuck with old pound coins and “tenners”.
Wow. Glad that’s not the case over here. Of course, over here old bills are considered collectible, and usually worth more than their face value if they are in good shape, depending on their age. Even confederate bills can be worth something nowadays.
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