Good news and bad news

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The good news is that while I was going through a load of old credit card receipts, statements, etc. and shredding them I found a ten pound note.

The bad news is that it's the ten pound note that was withdrawn from circulation in 2003... Not sure if the bank will still take them, we shall see. If not, I think it has to go to the Bank of England or something.

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I don't know about the UK, but I recently got a 20 dollar bill out of an ATM in a design that hadn't been in circulation for 30 years, and my reaction to it was "Wow, haven't seen one of these in a while." I spent it a couple of days later, and the cashier went "Wow, haven't seen one of these before." (since it was last printed before she was born) but she took it.

I once got a dollar bill in my change about 10 years after Canada replaced the dollar bill with a dollar coin, and had much the same experience with it. (I was in a tourist trap in Alberta at the time, and the cashier who gave it to said she'd gotten it from an American tourist who said that he'd been carrying it around in his wallet for 10 years, since the last time he was in Canada, and was wondering if it was still good.)