Bank of England launches ‘plastic fiver’
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
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The polymer £5 note, launched on Tuesday in the UK, can survive a spin in a washing machine and is much harder to forge than traditional paper money, reports Claer Barrett, the FT’s personal finance editor
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First country with polymer notes was Australia (since 1988)
My country Romania has plastic money since 1999.
Australia invented the plastic note. The tech was so good all countries that use plastic licenses the tech from Australia.. Australia even print most of those notes for these countries. the first plastic note came out as a trial in 1988 in Australia to replace the paper money.. :)
Yes. Australia was first in the World. and In Europe first to implement a Full Set was Romania in 1999, so almost 20 years ago :) . Only in Britain discovered them now :))
And my country, Australia, invented them - 1988.
Australia has had it for ages
Last time I checked Monopoly money was still made out of paper.
First polymer note in the UK was from a Northern Irish bank in 1999 then Scotland in 2015.
And it's still worth nothing....
Yup, no gold or silver for this fiat currency regardless of a gold and silver Big Ben.Brilliant to have Churchill on the note! How generous he was for what he did for the 3 million Bengalis in 1943
They crease up badly, awful notes..
I just crushed the new £5 note in a hydraulic press...DESTROYED!!
As an Australian, it's hilarious watchings Brits getting all excited over polymer banknotes XD
lachlan duggan they even have plastic notes in Nigeria of all places 😕 lol, so nothing new with the British ones.
Australia had them 20 years ago !
more like 30 years ago, Australia invented the polymer banknotes. Here in Romania we have polymer since 1999, almost 20 years ago lol.
Bank of England launches polymer untearable plastic £5 note
which are real and which are Fake £5 note and which are just misprints
do you know because i have ten plastic £5 note and not one is the same
tell me which real which Fake £5 note then because had two where shops wouldn't take lol I would like the Bank of England to send me photos each side plastic £5 note
Fiat Currency sucks.
Just like the plastic notes from Mexico 🇲🇽 Canada 🇨🇦 and Australia 🇦🇺
So long for fighting against plastic usage..
Now everyone will be made to use plastic..In the worse of its kind A toxic polymer
Please make £10, £20 and £50 notes like this....great idea!!
They are going to make polymer £10 and £20 notes. They don't plan to make changes to the £50 note since it is a lot rarer.
I used to live in Romania and they also use plastic banknotes. One thing I hate about them is that you can see the dirt a lot more on them. But hey you can clean them easily, the problem is... well you don't clean them and they remain dirty looking in your pockets.
With paper money, it's dirty but you don't see it. Ignorance is bliss!
Romania was the first country in Europe to implement a full set ofpolymer banknotes since 1999 .
In 10 years, all bills will be plastic.
Pastel Jelly accept the us dollars
The old notes would also survive a washing machine cycle as they were/are made of fabric. not paper.
Will they have an adverse environmental impact I wonder...
The New Fiver looks ok, but if you remove the War Criminal from the back and put a real human beign instead , it will look GREAT ! :))
MALVINAS ARGENTINAS
way to not do your reserch haha first polymer banknote was in northern ireland 1999, lol
I think she was referring to legal tender.
she never said that - she just said the uks first plastic banknote - of which the english note is definetly not first
I know she never said that directly but it's safe to presume that's what she ment considering the multiple roles shes had with the Financial Times and how wide spread plastic notes are in England, especially the Scottish ones.
The Northern Bank £5 note was as much legal tender in Glasgow, London and Cardiff as it was in Glengormley, Lisburn and Coleraine. Though most people in England and Wales commonly refuse to accept Northern Irish money as [unlike the Scots] they are unused to bank issued notes. This is their right to do so. indeed you can refuse to accept any legal tender bank note if you don't like the look of it, including bank of England. So the statement at the top of the film is wrong. The first legal tender UK banknote was issued by Northern Bank in 1999.
The Bank of England is the only bank in the UK that can produce legal tender.
Isn't this a waste of the planet's resources?
No, because plastic money or polymer fiber money can last longer than paper money, and when platic or polymer fiber money is no longer fit for circulation after several years it can be recycled to become a chair park or a trash bin or anynother recycable materials
The other fivers survived the washing machine, they also survived the drier, these melt
It looks pretty cool imo