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Do you have a £5 note worth £20,000?

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Elegran Wed 07-Dec-16 12:17:45

Check your notes before you hand them over! Four new polymer £5 notes are in circulation to which have been added a tiny 5mm portrait of Jane Austen. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-38223552
The serial numbers are AM32 885551, AM32 885552, AM32 885553, and AM32 885554.

"The first of four notes featuring art by specialist micro-engraver Graham Short was spent in Kelso in the Scottish Borders on Monday.

Three more notes will be spent in England, Wales and Northern Ireland this week."

Jalima Thu 08-Dec-16 23:30:00

But - is he trying to sell us anything?

He's not selling the notes and he is world-renowned anyway for his other miniature engravings.

Jonathan Callaway, currency expert told ITV News: "Because he is a well-known artist, his works will go for many thousands, so if anyone finds these notes they could find themselves sitting on a few thousand pounds - possibly more."

It's a bit of fun!
Even more fun if you find one

Esspee Fri 09-Dec-16 08:52:24

It is marketing to the gullible who will "like" and share the link ensuring that their contacts are sucked into the hype. You are being used.
It is not a bit of fun.

Jalima Fri 09-Dec-16 09:48:43

I've got it now!

It's all a ploy to get us to buy £5 notes!! For £5!!

How could I have been so gullible!

Elegran Fri 09-Dec-16 11:20:11

Well, if it is a marketing ploy it is a better one than phoning us every two minutes trying to get us to send them money for fixing a non-existent fault/virus in our computers. It costs us nothing to have a look at the fivers in our purse, and a few people will have one that they can sell for a large amount.

What will all the contacts be sucked into? Looking at their fivers too? Laughing at themselves for hoping they have one of the engraved ones and feeling a bit more cheerful at the thought of the project? You don't have to buy anything to participate, unlike the golden hare book a few years ago, where the book gave cryptic clues to buried treasure somewhere.

Ana Fri 09-Dec-16 11:27:10

Any fivers you get in change now will have already been scrutinised so I don't know where you'd find one now...

Elegran Thu 15-Dec-16 17:23:38

One found in Wales - www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-38333438

Mumsy Thu 15-Dec-16 18:17:01

its been advertised that 'James Bond' is on some notes as well, mmmmm wonder which James Bond! There are so many £5 for sale on ebay, in the Mirror it said one on ebay was up for sale for £80,000 and theres nothing special about it! Bizarre !

Elegran Thu 15-Dec-16 18:33:16

There is one for £50,000 on Ebay "printed upside down . . . a top British Bank . . . . said it can be used in the upside down format or simply turned around and used the other way" grin

And another for £5 million "Rare 5 pound note (not)
Only rich Arabs and Russian billionaires allowed to bid ( also will allow Donald Trump to bid if no one else does)"

Elegran Thu 15-Dec-16 18:34:54

Just seen that the ones listed as "James Bond" have 007 somewhere in the serial number. Hmmmm