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    I got a chunk of cash out at the beginning of lockdown and haven't had to visit a cash machine since. I've used it once for a taxi back from hospital and a couple of times on a bus (really unhelpfully there are two local bus companies. One only accepts card payments or exact change, and one only accepts cash. If you buy a return ticket to the town centre from one company, you cannot use it with the other company on the way back, even though they go the same route. It's a total scam).

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      Oh, and the school is back to asking for a 50p per week voluntary donation for art materials, etc, so I bunged them a fiver and will think about it again after half term.

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        https://twitter.com/page_eco/status/1309490061243604993

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          That's exactly the kind of shithousery I can get fully behind.

          As for not using cash, I've probably drawn out ?20 once a month since lockdown started but that's only to cover me for the fact that the shop down the round only takes cash for transactions under ?3 and if I'm just getting a drink and packet of crisps, I'm not having to withdraw the ?2 from the post office counter.

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            Well, we can say that Covid has made people afraid of change.

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              The new ?50 note

              Design's a bit meh, but I do like how it looks like it's crushing the Queen's head, Kids In The Hall style.

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                I doubt I'll ever see one. Maybe I'll go to a bank to get one out just for the thrill, then take it to EIM's place and order a pint.

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                  I described upthread how the entirety of my possession of a 50 pound note in my life was less than ten minutes. The Chief Cashier was on the wireless earlier and was asked about usage of 50 pound notes and she didn't convince. People who keep money at home and foreign tourists apparently. You'd need to be keeping a lot of money at home for having it in 50s to be space-efficient. Perhaps inflation and having a more robust and harder-to-forge note will make them more popular, but with cash being used less and less this does seem to be going against the tide somewhat.

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                    When I worked at the cinema the only people who paid using ?50 notes were Irish Travellers and Indian families coming to Bollywood films. In both cases one person would be paying for anything up to 30 tickets so it was understandable.

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                      From time to time I've ended up with a 500 Lei note here, which is basically 100 quid. As you can imagine it's a right pain to try and use. There's a 200 euro note too but I've never seen one.

                      I know the 50 euro notes do get stashed a lot by people. To the extent that it's actually the most issued note by the ECB

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                        It's completely normal here to pay with a 50 euro note. I probably do so at least once a week.

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                          Back when I worked on the public counters, an Australian tourist came in with a 500 euro note,asking if we could change it for something smaller. He explained that he ordered 1000 euros in cash online from one of the banks, and they sent him two 500 euro notes!

                          I also had another family trying to buy one stamp for a postcard with a 500 euro note, I told them that I didn't have enough change, which was true.

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                            I only see $100 notes in casinos and in movies with drug dealers. Occasionally someone who owes you money will give you a $100 bill that they got in a casino. If you try and spend it people usually hate you so it normally goes straight back to the bank.

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                              Only time I ever had a ?50 note was when my foster dad's boss paid me ?100 with two of them when I did a weeks labouring for him, cash in hand, at the age of 16.

                              ?100 for 5 days grafting (8-5) when I could get ?30 for 9 hours dossing in a Booker Cash and Carry convinced me to stay out of the building trade. The ?100 went towards a couple of new PS2 games that weekend.

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                                Originally posted by Rogin the Armchair fan View Post
                                I doubt I'll ever see one. Maybe I'll go to a bank to get one out just for the thrill, then take it to EIM's place and order a pint.
                                Nah
                                wait for the Scots to start issuing theirs and go in and pay with them




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                                  Originally posted by Sporting View Post
                                  It's completely normal here to pay with a 50 euro note. I probably do so at least once a week.
                                  Similarly in Ireland, occupies the niche of the old IR#20 notes, so surprised when in the UK that the default was #20, even when so many more are required for business.

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                                    I may have just had my first fake plastic fiver.

                                    The "print" on the Queen side has all started to flake off like old paint, revealing spots of clear film underneath.

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                                      Originally posted by Gangster Octopus View Post
                                      I've just received my first. My third visit to a cash machine since the first lockdown started.
                                      Last edited by Capybara; 26-11-2021, 16:07.

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                                        Why did they go for sexy young Turner rather than a more mature version?

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                                          I think you may have answered your own question there. Same reason they knock a few decades off Brenda's fizzog.

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                                            I had to pay for a beer with cash last night because there was a problem with the card machine. I've just looked at my change and there's a Charlie 50p there. I hadn't realised any were in circulation yet.

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                                              https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-67091137

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                                                I like those, but they look Irish/Canadian to me

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                                                  Pleased to see that the link in the OP still works. You can choose the International Bank Note for 2023 (and/or try and put names to the faces, you should score one point, possibly a second, take a bow if you get three or more):

                                                  IBNS Banknote of the Year (theibns.org)

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                                                    Well, the 50 rand is Mandela, obviously.
                                                    The Jamaican note is Norman Manley and Alexander Bustamante
                                                    And the Argentinian note is Ramon Carrillo and Cecilia Grierson

                                                    All just from looking at the notes. Specifically the bits where the denominated’s names are written*... I’m thinking that anyone who can read Arabic and Cyrillic would get all five, because it looks like the names are also included on those notes.

                                                    * - excepting Mandela, as telling people his name is superfluous.
                                                    Last edited by Janik; 12-10-2023, 20:00.

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