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Have the new £5 notes been counterfeited already ?

letthegoodtimesroll
letthegoodtimesroll Posts: 10,621
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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 ?

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  • Rothko
    Rothko Posts: 18,808
    No, just old habits die hard
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,638
    Don't think the pen will work on the new notes as they're not paper.
  • swords_alive
    swords_alive Posts: 4,262
    Dodgy customer more like.
    And why do you buy anything in the ground ?
  • CHG
    CHG Posts: 4,529
    edited March 2017
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  • CAFCsayer
    CAFCsayer Posts: 10,224
    Knowing what the staff are like at The Valley it was more likely a crayon and the geezer fancied doing some colouring in
  • se9addick
    se9addick Posts: 32,037
    swords_alive said:

    Dodgy customer more like.
    And why do you buy anything in the ground ?

    Surely buying with snide notes is ok? That's the policy I've been operating on all season.
  • Arsenetatters
    Arsenetatters Posts: 5,976
    It's me. I've made some tallow-free ones
  • Alwaysneil
    Alwaysneil Posts: 13,806
    Some Roland £50m, can we use those in the ground now?
  • letthegoodtimesroll
    letthegoodtimesroll Posts: 10,621
    swords_alive said:

    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.
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,008
    Yes they have.

    http://metro.co.uk/2017/02/27/heres-how-to-spot-a-fake-5-note-6475421/
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  • cafcfan
    cafcfan Posts: 11,198
    edited March 2017
    guinnessaddick said:

    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.
  • Halix
    Halix Posts: 2,237
    How many do you want? two quid each.
  • LuckyReds
    LuckyReds Posts: 5,866
    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.
  • Rizzo
    Rizzo Posts: 6,435
    I hope they have been counterfeited and that we can go back to the old fivers. Can't stand the new plastic ones!
  • iainment
    iainment Posts: 8,039
    Arsenetatters said:

    It's me. I've made some tallow-free ones

    Well done.
  • Alwaysneil
    Alwaysneil Posts: 13,806
    iainment said:

    Arsenetatters said:

    It's me. I've made some tallow-free ones

    Well done.
    Just a shame that the replacement for tallow turned out to be an extract from a rare frog sourced from the Amazon basin.
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,355
    Hoping the tenners are pork chop flavour.

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