@waz @Blue Marlin @Abingdonboy et al. Have you handled any of these yet? What are your impressions?
I find the feel to older notes much better...though I have got used to the polymer ones in Canada and Singapore (earlier) now.
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did you know someone managed to sell 3 brand new £5 notes for £460 pounds! i swear thats true according to the bbc.
well if the note serial number has AA as the first two characters then its a collectable and worth more than the stock value of the note.People collect all kinds of things. The serial numbers may have had some meaning to the buyer....and he/she wanted it brand new right from the print press.
Reminds me of the people that buy original comic books still in their wrapper and never open them etc.
I was in Hong Kong during the handover and they auctioned the number plate HK 1997 for many millions of USD if I remember correctly.
In Canada the new polymer notes were also bought/sold with some fanfare when they were rare/novelty at the beginning in manners like you describe as well.
So far they are holding up pretty well now, except that creases from forced folding tend to be quite permanent (plastic deformation and all etc).
Its the old notes that are quite the novelty now heh. I kept some mint ones of those to sell much later potentially or just pass down to my kids etc.
well if the note serial number has AA as the first two characters then its a collectable and worth more than the stock value of the note.
canada does have polymer notes as well as the aussies and its a success. well mind you the governor for the bank of england is canadian (mark carney) maybe hes gave the sudgestion to go plastic instead of fibre paper
you cant beat the feel of the the old note but yes indeed you must understand its reduces the number or replacement notes as they last longer. they do cost more to make but as i said they last longerYah I had my doubts about polymer at the start when I first came across it (living in Singapore and also when visiting Australia).
For the Singapore one...the first note I saw in polymer was from Brunei (which was/is legal tender in Singapore too)...that must have been the late 90s I think....in fact I think they used the Aussie printing press for that note series.
That idea spread to Singapore too eventually.
So I already knew what to expect when Canada opted for it too. So far its held up decently....but I just prefer the feel of cotton fibre notes. I realise the merits to polymer currency though. I guess its a bit like old books versus e-books...I always like to physically flick a page rather than mouse scroll/button press.

I hope we stick to paper for the USD. our currency is a classic, and you got people who want to put new faces on the bills and put bright colors and other weird crap on themno ty

They should have replace the photo of old queen with princess kate as well![]()

Is polymer a cheaper or more expensive solution?
Or use a more recent photo of the queen.
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yes if you have intention to make people scare lol
on serious note best thing about uk currency is that you could have all notes in your pocket because its only 20, 10, 5 pounds notes while 50 pounds exist but you hardly see in daily use unless you make special request to get it from bank