Public Service Announcement for my Non-Brit Friends

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If you've kept UK currency for your next trip to Britain, you ought to know that a new plastic five pound note was introduced a few months ago, a new pound coin last week, and new two pound coins and ten pound notes are on the horizon, not sure of the date. The old paper fiver won't be legal tender after May 5th, the old pound after October 10th, and so forth, though British banks will probably let you change them for a while after that, and the Bank of England will always take them. That's assuming that they aren't forgeries, of course, which is the main reason why the coins are being changed!

The bottom line - change the old currency or spend it while you can, because it will be problematic further down the line.

Comments

[kerkevik_2014]

I loathe the plastic fiver's so much I tend to use them as quickly possible, or ask for coins instead. They just don't seem like real money at all :-( Saw a picture of one of the new pound coins yesterday and it looks like one of those tokens you get at fairgrounds or game machine places.

Whatever happened to the five pound coin that was mooted several years back anyway?

kerk

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No idea, but it wouldn't surprise me if they introduced one. Not a big fan of the plastic notes, they seem to be too slippery somehow.

I saw one of the pound coins on Friday, a friend had one, didn't seem that bad really. They're the same dimensions and weight as the existing coin, I think.

[ckd]

LOL, I sold all my remaining GBP to a coworker who was going on a trip...before Brexit, so I came out ahead.

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Really wish I'd had the sense to keep my dollars - I had $500+ on Paypal last year, I exchanged it for sterling a couple of months before the Brexit vote.