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Article #620312Re: useless old cash such as Bitcoin confusion?
From: Gareths Downstairs Computer
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2018 11:41
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2018 11:41
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On 14/02/2018 00:02, John Levine wrote: > In article <20180213231511.475263df@Mars>, > Rob Morley <nos...@ntlworld.com> wrote: >> I meant properly old like the pre-war stuff (not recently withdrawn >> waste paper) that people might occasionally come across in the effects >> of deceased relatives and hand in to a bank. Most likely this just >> doesn't happen. > > If it did, I expect the bank clerks would pick it out long before it > went to the note sorting machines. > My father-in-law at one time worked at the Bank Of England (alongside the actor who played the Uncle (Buster somebody?) in Only Fools and Horses) and commented that when old notes were returned, their serial numbers were ticked off, and if it was found that a certain serial number had already been ticked off, then the newcomer would be rejected as a forgery, even if the newcomer was, in fact, the pukka one!
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