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Check your wallets!
Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2014 6:29 pm
by Steven M. McCann
Houblon £50 notes can't be spent after Wednesday!
Re: Check your wallets!
Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2014 7:01 pm
by JimBentley
Stephen, I've checked my wallet and it didn't contain any fifty pound notes at all! What should I do????!?!?!??!?
Re: Check your wallets!
Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2014 10:31 pm
by Steven M. McCann
I have now discovered under my mattress (safest place)I have some Adam Elgar £20's I can't spend!
Re: Check your wallets!
Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2014 10:51 pm
by Gavin Chipper
Steven M. McCann wrote:I have now discovered under my mattress (safest place)I have some Adam Elgar £20's I can't spend!
I have some Edward Smith £20 notes. Can I use them?
Re: Check your wallets!
Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2014 12:25 pm
by Ian Volante
Happily, all my £100 notes are still valid.
Re: Check your wallets!
Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2014 1:29 pm
by Steven M. McCann
I have no problem with notes been withdrawn, but at least make people aware.
I have had these EDWARD Elgar £20's set aside as emergency funds for the past 5 years and it turns out they were withdrawn from circulation 4 years ago completely unknownst to me!
Re: Check your wallets!
Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2014 2:35 pm
by Peter Mabey
Do $ bills expire? - although I didn't find any old £s, I did discover a $50(Grant) dated 1985 and a few other smaller ones.
Re: Check your wallets!
Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2014 2:41 pm
by Ian Volante
Steven M. McCann wrote:I have no problem with notes been withdrawn, but at least make people aware.
I have had these EDWARD Elgar £20's set aside as emergency funds for the past 5 years and it turns out they were withdrawn from circulation 4 years ago completely unknownst to me!
They're still worth their face value, you just have to exchange them at the issuing bank.
Re: Check your wallets!
Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2014 2:53 pm
by Lucy Gowers
Peter Mabey wrote:Do $ bills expire? - although I didn't find any old £s, I did discover a $50(Grant) dated 1985 and a few other smaller ones.
No. I recently found a US currency stash that I'd forgotten about. All notes over 20 years old, all accepted in stores.
Re: Check your wallets!
Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2014 4:27 pm
by Steven M. McCann
Ian,unfortunately for me, the issuing Bank for the Edward Elgar £20's is the Bank of England and they don't have any branches over here (N.Ireland), I may have to post them to London where no doubt they'll get lost!
No, the thing that's irritating me, I had that money set aside for cash emergencies (like a horse that was definitely going to win!) and it hasn't been legal tender for 4 years!
I may as well have put some Monopoly money under my mattress!
Re: Check your wallets!
Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2014 5:19 pm
by Ian Volante
Steven M. McCann wrote:Ian,unfortunately for me, the issuing Bank for the Edward Elgar £20's is the Bank of England and they don't have any branches over here (N.Ireland), I may have to post them to London where no doubt they'll get lost!
No, the thing that's irritating me, I had that money set aside for cash emergencies (like a horse that was definitely going to win!) and it hasn't been legal tender for 4 years!
I may as well have put some Monopoly money under my mattress!
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