When buying a pint at the Valley yesterday the young lad behind the counter ran a marker pen over the new style £5 note I handed him before putting it in the till. Has Charlton got caught out with a load of dodgy new fivers already ?
Dodgy customer more like. And why do you buy anything in the ground ?
Obviously I can't speak the the thousands of others that are buying drinks etc in the ground but in my case it's probably something to do with fancying a drink and the club selling them I suspect.
Don't think the pen will work on the new notes as they're not paper.
Technically, the old ones weren't either. They were made from a blend of cotton fibre and linen rag, not wood pulp. Notes made of paper would last no time at all. I understand that the forgeries of the new notes copy the design but are actually printed on paper, so they should be rather easy to spot.
Yeah, as @Covered End points out - they were faked fairly quickly.
Not really a fault with the notes though, more likely it's simply the prime time to fake a currency. When a currency just enters circulation people aren't used to dealing with them, and thus lack familiarity.
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And why do you buy anything in the ground ?
http://metro.co.uk/2017/02/27/heres-how-to-spot-a-fake-5-note-6475421/
Not really a fault with the notes though, more likely it's simply the prime time to fake a currency. When a currency just enters circulation people aren't used to dealing with them, and thus lack familiarity.