Originally published at: Would you pay 11 times the face value for King Charles banknotes?
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Eh, there are currency collectors out there, and low or weird serial numbers I know bring a premium.
I just went through some mostly foreign coin stashes, and found my 1995 D penny that is silver. I don’t know if someone got board and plated it with nickle or maybe a hard chrome, OR it’s all zinc and never got coated in copper. It’s been circulated so I doubt it’s worth much, but its kinda neat!
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I’ve always wondered what the total cost of “rebranding” the entire UK to change literally millions of printed items to read King and Charles instead of Queen and Elizabeth etc. Probably every single printed government document has some kind of printed nod to God save the Queen etc.
Would it cost hundreds of millions? Massive paper waste?
Also, he’s not going to live for that many more years probably, they are going to have to switch to King George everything.
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So they’re royal Beanie Babies?
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not gonna lie, i may be in the market for a single £5 note for my brother. DB is a collector of “intetesting” banknotes and also an Angliophile who went the Chucky’s coronation wing-ding thing.
if i could score one for him, it would be really special!
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Are we skipping Wills now?
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I’ve had a lot of Chucky3’s pass through my hands lately. They are everywhere. Not seen any 20s yet, but 10s and fivers, loads. Never thought to check for the low numbers. Will keep my eyes peeled, before Will himself takes over. 
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Ha! I swapped their names in my head. My grandmother from the UK would be mortified haha
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Scotland reporting. Huvnae seen wan. We’ve oor ain cash, and most o’ us use contactless anywa’, seein’ as it’s 2024 ‘n’ aw.
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PREVIOUSLY ON BOING BOING
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Ah, Scotland.
Whereas England is full of godless backwards-looking heathens, Scotland is the home of the godless futuristic heathens.
For those about to Scot, We Salute You 
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The old stuff gets used up, not thrown away. I have loads of Queen Elizabeth stamps, for example, which remain valid forever. I’ll be sad when I stick the last one on a letter.
The only reason we don’t have George the 5th coins in circulation is because of decimalisation in the 1970s. I remember the older ones from when I was a child. Even then, older coins like shillings remained in circulation for years.
There are Queen Victoria post boxes still in daily use.
The overall cost of bringing in the King Charles coins and so on is probably relatively trivial, considering a lot of things wear out and need replacement anyway.
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No. Or to put it more clearly, hell no. I wouldn’t pay 11x face value for currency featuring someone I thought worth a damn, let alone a monarch.
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I’ve got a few Chuck bucks already, only fivers so far though, and with very high serial numbers.
At least the Royal Navy are ok, all their ships are HMS, and the H can stand for his or hers, regardless of monarch.
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