New £20 note unveiled ahead of February release - MSE News

Former_MSE_Callum

The design for the new polymer £20 note - set to be released in February next year - has been unveiled by the Bank of England...

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'New £20 note unveiled ahead of February release'

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fatbelly

Well there's a lot of effort gone into it but the end result doesn't look very interesting. I don't suppose it matters.

boo_star

fatbelly wrote: »

Well there's a lot of effort gone into it but the end result doesn't look very interesting. I don't suppose it matters.

It's the thought that counts

oldagetraveller

Possibly an enormous waste of money. Because, if the polititions have their way, we will be tied to the United States of Europe and be forced to adopt the Euro!

Thrugelmir

oldagetraveller wrote: »

Possibly an enormous waste of money.

Need to remove the counterfeit notes out of circulation.

JuicyJesus

The amount of counterfeit £20s in circulation is huge. Anything that helps reduce that is positive.

fatbelly

oldagetraveller wrote: »

Possibly an enormous waste of money. Because, if the polititions have their way, we will be tied to the United States of Europe and be forced to adopt the Euro!

We've not really had a proper discussion of what sort of Remain we want.

snowqueen555

They are very hard to forge, but they have another issue at hand, in that the notes themselves are very hard to maintain to a fit "circulation" standard.

Fingerbobs

I rarely use cash, but I hate the new plastic notes. I find them very difficult to count because they're too slippery.

[Deleted User]

I'm not against cash but I hardly carry it these days as I mostly use card/contactless for everything. It's come to the point where I barely have 25p charge for the coffee machine at work. If only it took contactless

PollyWolly

:eek: Someone doing the pouting duck face on a bank note
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