They don't make new five pound notes anymore do they?

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Ok, sorry this is a bit anglo-centric, but has anyone out there ever gotten a new five pound note recently?...I seem to get lots of really manky, grimy, ripped up ones as change, and it's starting to get annoying!

― james e l, Saturday, 14 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

No, no new ones. I think they want to replace it with a coin. Like... what is this, the middle ages, I want to walk around with a little bag full of coinage of the realm?

And it sucks, cause £5 notes are the prettiest. They're purple and green.

― masonic boom, Saturday, 14 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Went to get 20 pound out of the cash machine: out came one crisp 'tenner' and two virginial, untouched five pound notes.

Rest easy now.

― D*A*V*I*D*M, Saturday, 14 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Whenever I buy anything now I lean over the counter so I can see into the till, so if they try and fob me off with eight pound coins I say, "No, not those, I see a five-pound note so I'll take that instead, thank you."

― tarden, Saturday, 14 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I dreamt about five pound coins last night. They looked like two pound coins only bigger. About the size of jaffa cakes.

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Saturday, 14 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Banks hate fivers cos less of them fit in cash machines which means they can run out more easily over the weekend. The Bank of England Really hates fivers because the cost a lot to keep in circulation, proportionate to their value. Also a lot of britain's bank note printers have been making euros. So there are less new fivers coming into circulation. They would love to put out a five pound coin. I recon they should male it an interesting shape like a triangle or something. Not practical but better than round or roundish.

― Ed, Saturday, 14 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

A cube or a small fattish cone would be good: very Borgesian. A spiky icosahedron would be space age!!

― mark s, Saturday, 14 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

a holograph

― anthony, Saturday, 14 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I do like twopound coins though, after making all of our other coins small and insubstancial they finally come with something that looks and feels like money.

― Ed, Saturday, 14 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I want rubber coins that you can bounce off the walls

― Ed, Saturday, 14 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

The exchange rate of eight ningies to one pu is simple enough, but since a ningie is a massive rubber coin...

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 14 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I want money that grows on trees.

― D*A*V*I*D*M, Saturday, 14 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I like coins . Bills tear and get grubby . Except for plastic money they have in Australia . So coins and brightly colored plastic money.

― anthony, Saturday, 14 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Use other facts please: '"Nearly all of the five pound notes in London have traces of cocaine on them."

― Andrew L, Saturday, 14 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

No!! Use THAT fact please!! I have never heard it before and will announce it at work on Monday!! Will my new boss laff her head off — or be appalled?

― mark s, Saturday, 14 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I like loonies. Just for the retarded name. English currency is annoying when you're trying to get a Blur: Are Shite shirt.

― JM, Saturday, 14 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I like loonies because they contain a bird 99 % of canadian s havent seen. Its the same thign with the twonies.

― anthony, Saturday, 14 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

what's a loony?

― Ed, Sunday, 15 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

It is a canadain one dollar coin. looks kind of brassy, with beveled edges. It has a loon on one side and the queen on the other. It was going to be a pair of courier de bois but the proofs were stolen from the mint

― anthony, Sunday, 15 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I like twonies better than loonies. Because they look just like £2 coins, but you can knock the centre out if you skip them.

The rumour about cocaine and the £5 note- I always thought it was American $100 bills. Ah well, I'm out of style. So sue me.

― masonic boom, Monday, 16 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

NO THE TWONIE IS UGLY ! Its a myth about the centers going out anyways.

― anthony, Monday, 16 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

one year passes...

The thing about twonies centres coming out is true. The very first run had problems and they were rectified on the second run - some sort of bevel or tongue in groove arrangement was created. This insider knowledge is thanks to a tour of the Canadian mint I did last Saturday.

― Sparky James, Saturday, 19 October 2002 10:38 (twenty-two years ago) link

topical thread revival, with the new five pound note making an appearance these last few weeks...

― michael (michael), Saturday, 19 October 2002 19:31 (twenty-two years ago) link

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