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| AdeV:
--- Quote from: Ned Ludd on January 10, 2012, 08:23:34 AM --- PS for you foreigners out there who don't understand what proper money is/was, ten bob was ten shillings or half a Pound. :wave: --- End quote --- Hence the expression "as bent as a 9 bob note", which I use occasionally even though decimalisation predates me by about 18 months... |
| Fergus OMore:
And the ink is still wet? Of course it is- it is actually non drying ink. Get a newish note and a bit where there is plenty of printing and put a really heavy pressure on with your thumb and rotate it onto a piece a clean white paper. |
| AdeV:
--- Quote from: Fergus OMore on January 10, 2012, 02:35:32 PM --- And the ink is still wet? Of course it is- it is actually non drying ink. Get a newish note and a bit where there is plenty of printing and put a really heavy pressure on with your thumb and rotate it onto a piece a clean white paper. --- End quote --- IIRC the £20 note - and certainly the £50 note - have a security device on them where you rub part of the note on a piece of paper - the genuine article will lose some ink to the paper. |
| Fergus OMore:
All the denominations will mark paper Trust me! |
| Ned Ludd:
Can some kind soul remind me what a £50 note looks like, it's been soo long since I last saw one. :( Ned |
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