Like, what’s the point of its existence when that denomination is difficult to come by since ATMs don’t disperse them. I mean, will they still refuse a £50 note when paying for a £45 purchase? They go full counterfeit detection mode just because an individual has it despite that being the real one (not fake). Also, why does the Bank of England keep printing more of that when they know people barely use it anyway?

  • mannycalavera@feddit.uk
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    22 days ago

    When I was at Uni and working part time my boss told me it was because the £50 note was easier to forge so they would want us to check it and ideally not accept it. The explanation of which I accepted without question at the time. LOL I didn’t give a shit.

    But thinking about it more why would a large denomination be any easy or harder to forge than a lower one?

    So I don’t know actually.

    • teft@piefed.socialEnglish
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      22 days ago

      Why not do what other countries do and just make the denominations physically larger as the value increases? Now it’s harder to wash and reprint forgeries. Also if you use different color paper for each denomination you have another way to prevent forgeries of the washing and reprinting kind.

        • teft@piefed.socialEnglish
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          22 days ago

          Yes, downvote for asking why not fix your broken currency. That’ll encourage discussions.

          You asked:

          But thinking about it more why would a large denomination be any easy or harder to forge than a lower one?

          I explained why your large bills are easier to forge.

          • Gentryfried@feddit.uk
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            22 days ago

            He’s saying “ummmm” because we actually already do that. Fun fact :).

            And we use different colours for each note.

            But BTW, why the hostility to our… currency? Are you like a very patriotic IRS agent or something? Our currency isn’t any more broken or extra forgeable than any other country’s. I think you’ve extrapolated too much from seeing people bring up the occurence of forgeries on this one post.

          • Denjin@feddit.uk
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            21 days ago

            I guess people from wherever you’re from don’t understand anything they’re talking about before commenting online.