£50

[bednobs]

am i the only person in the country who has never seen a £50 note "in real life"?

[Mamyalynne]

Yes, have handled many as we sold cars and a lot of people paid cash.
As Retrochic says far easier to count when you are in the thousands than smaller notes.

[maggiebee]

I gave my grandkids £50 each for their holidays last year. Gave £50 notes which my daughter immediately changed into smaller denominations just in case they got lost.

[jno]

somebody once donated £100 to our church, two £50 notes, and we got shown them during the service. Each one would have been worth £1000 by now.

[jennyjoan]

I get them all the time in the Credit Union - I hate them.

[EcclesCake]

Why JJ?

[jennyjoan]

I'd rather have 5 Tenners. Recall many years ago I was 10 years old and a wealthy friend of my mother (who was poor) gave me a 10shilling note and mother very nicely said oh I'll give you a nice big shiny 2 shilling coin for that silly note. Who did she think she was taking on. She must have thought I was a dope. One in a million my mother - should have been on the stage for the carry on of her.

[cazza247]

I work in a betting shop so get loads but oh my God trying to give them back as layout you think I was giving them monopoly money

[cazza247]

Sorry that was meant BE payout

[baza]

I once sold an annual season ticket and the bloke paid in £50 notes, about two and a half grand.

[aelmpvw]

i remember the days when people were suspicious of tenners

[baza]

What about the old white fivers ?

[whiskeryron]

I have never seen a £50 note,however I am quite prepared to become more world-wise if you would care to send me one that I could closely examine.

[New Judge]

“Many years ago I can remember my mother having a white £20 note it was white and about 4 times the size of our ones now .”

It must have been very old, Wendilla. No £20 notes were issued between 1943 and 1970. The earlier ones were indeed white but they ceased to be legal tender in 1945. Those from 1970 onwards (the first was the “William Shakespeare” version which was withdrawn in 1993) looked fairly similar to those in use today – about the same size and brownish in colour.