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MSE News: First VERTICAL £5 and £10 notes to enter circulation

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Ulster Bank has revealed the UK's first vertical banknotes, which are due to enter circulation next year...
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'First VERTICAL £5 and £10 notes to enter circulation'
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  • EssexExile
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    I'm still going to put them in my wallet sideways.
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  • Jibeddy
    Jibeddy Posts: 86 Forumite
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    EssexExile wrote: »
    I'm still going to put them in my wallet sideways.

    But will you hold your wallet vertically to compensate?
  • ValiantSon
    ValiantSon Posts: 2,586 Forumite
    Wow, what an utterly dull piece of reporting. Who cares?

    It is also inaccurate reporting (and by no means for the first time) as it says,
    The polymer notes will be issued in Northern Ireland but will be legal currency and usable for cash transactions across the UK.

    Notes issued by Ulster Bank can be used in the rest of the UK if someone is prepared to accept them, but they are not legal tender:

    http://edu.bankofengland.co.uk/knowledgebank/what-is-legal-tender/
  • davidmcn
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    ValiantSon wrote: »
    Wow, what an utterly dull piece of reporting. Who cares?

    It is also inaccurate reporting (and by no means for the first time) as it says,

    Notes issued by Ulster Bank can be used in the rest of the UK if someone is prepared to accept them, but they are not legal tender:

    http://edu.bankofengland.co.uk/knowledgebank/what-is-legal-tender/
    It doesn't say that they are legal tender (not that the concept of legal tender is relevant 99% of the time).
  • paulbrighton2018
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    edited 24 May 2018 at 8:09PM
    Dave Gorman already got this covered.. :-) seek out the full episode, if possible- its brilliant!
    comedy co uk /tv / dave_gorman_modern_life/videos/12148/how_not_to_fold_a_note/
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  • JezR
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    edited 24 May 2018 at 8:23PM
    They aren't the first 'vertical notes' issued in the UK either. Northern Bank had them in 1999


    For example: http://www.tomchao.com/eu/ireln2fx.jpg

    Admittedly this was a special edition.
  • Katiehound
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    For goodness sake how can you say the notes are vertical- it's the design! If you want to hold standard notes in portrait position rather than landscape does that make a them worth less/ more????

    many a mickle makes a muckle- shame it's a Scots phrase rather than one from NI- or in other words making a mountain out of a molehill!!
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  • pmduk
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    It's an RBS gimmick, and MSE have played right into their hands reporting a non-story
  • LadyDee
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    Slow news day?
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