Timeline for Edward Elgar £20 notes in UK
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| Jan 16, 2018 at 4:19 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackTravel/status/953119425951133696 | ||
| Dec 31, 2017 at 16:23 | answer | added | Willeke♦ | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jul 2, 2016 at 13:14 | comment | added | David Richerby | @Berwyn The old and new notes are obviously and distinctively different. You don't need to "check who is pictured on the bank note": the person in the shop has to look at the note to tell that it's a note at all and, when they do that, they've already looked at it enough to see that it's not a current note. | |
| Jul 2, 2016 at 8:26 | vote | accept | Roman Ryltsov | ||
| Jul 1, 2016 at 23:32 | comment | added | bdsl | Shops generally don't have to accept anything if they don't want to. There's no obligation on shops to trade. The concept of legal tender is only really relevant for paying debts. | |
| Jul 1, 2016 at 22:33 | answer | added | mpursuit | timeline score: 17 | |
| Jul 1, 2016 at 17:55 | comment | added | alephzero | "At some point the story is likely to repeat" - the next design of £5 note (due in September 2016) will be printed on "plastic" not "paper", which will be a more obvious change than just a change of picture. bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/polymer/Pages/default.aspx. | |
| Jul 1, 2016 at 17:15 | comment | added | Lightness Races in Orbit | Wow, I've just realised I haven't seen one of these in years. That's weird. | |
| Jul 1, 2016 at 16:40 | answer | added | CMaster | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jul 1, 2016 at 16:38 | comment | added | CMaster | That actually not what legal tender means, but the effect is still the same. | |
| Jul 1, 2016 at 16:35 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jul 1, 2016 at 16:29 | answer | added | Calchas | timeline score: 8 | |
| Jul 1, 2016 at 16:23 | history | edited | Roman Ryltsov | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 1, 2016 at 16:14 | history | edited | Roman Ryltsov | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 1, 2016 at 16:14 | comment | added | Gayot Fow | The Bank of England that issues notes and regulates UK monetary policy (as opposed to a bank in the US using the name) doesn't have branches. The Telegraph article you cited said "...consumers have the right to swap the notes at the Bank of England itself..." which means you need to go to Threadneedle Street. | |
| Jul 1, 2016 at 15:58 | comment | added | Berwyn | This is news to me. I've never noticed anyone check who is pictured on the banknote. If it is refused, I really can't imagine that any high street bank would refuse to swap it though. | |
| Jul 1, 2016 at 15:54 | comment | added | Roman Ryltsov | I was also curious about the status of £10 note, and as far as I can see Jane Austen will take her place on the £10 note in 2017, the bicentenary of her death, replacing the 19th-century naturalist Charles Darwin, who has been on the notes since late 2000. That is, at some point the story is likely to repeat. | |
| Jul 1, 2016 at 15:50 | history | asked | Roman Ryltsov | CC BY-SA 3.0 |