Do you have a £5 note worth £20,000?

I haven't even had one yet, I only pay by debit card these days. DD let me have a look at one of hers the other day though!

I checked mine earlier but no luck..

This is like the Willy Wonka story!

Oh, I've only had one of the new notes and unfortunately I spent it.

I've got one in my purse. she says getting all excited

Drinks on gilly!

I always check mine!

Well, I had a fiver and I've still only got a fiver, so unless it's council pop, no drinks on me today Riverwalk

Also apparently 50p pieces with the Kew Gardens pagoda on the back are fetching £40-60 on ebay.

Oh, I gave GS3 two crisp fivers as part of his birthday present. I bet he's spent them already.

Spent my last fiver on Bingo...

Released today in England, S Wales and NI I think!

No, I haven't got one.

But - are they legal - will the person who engraved them be arrested?
But Mr Short's latest project could get him into trouble with the law as it is technically an offence to deface a banknote.

Under the Currency & Banknotes Act 1928, it is illegal to print, write or impress words, letters or symbols onto notes issued by the Bank of England.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/five-pound-note-plastic-worth-50000-engrave-jane-austen-winston-churchill-a7459171.html

going to look now .....

What, not even a number to show how many are in the thick wad in your wallet?

If they sell for £20K, it doesn't matter whether they are legal tender or not, you'd still make £19,995, but if the artist is arrested, he could regret doing it.

Wishing I hadn't given the DGD £5 each .....

Tell them about the £20,000 and say that if they have one of them, you'd like a share please.

Not likely to get one here ...but anyone who doesn't want to handle them because of the tallow content can send them all to me ........

This is an advertising ploy, if we respond then we are puppets. Please do not spread the ad. or we will be subjected to more like this.

Espee
Are you trying to tell us that Elegran is attempting to sell us £5 notes for £5 - Elegran?

I think the DGD have spent theirs already. Some of it may have gone on a Christmas present for me

It's not an advertising ploy, this person is an artist who has done similar "art works" before.
The £20k is an estimate based on what previous works of this artist have sold; it may be very conservative!

Yes, he does very tiny engravings eg on the head of a pin etc

Where's my purse ...

I heard that ones with AK47 on sold for huge amounts - and I found I have one! - but when I checked on EBay I didn't see any going for anything more than £4, haha.

I am not sure what he could be advertising, Esspee - himself as an artist, perhaps? But he is already an established engraver.

He has managed to get a huge amount of publicity out of this marketing ploy. A bit like the chain letters of yesteryear.........on steroids!
We don't have to be sucked in.