£10 note, ripped?

JohnnyG · 27 May 2009 at 19:39

I believe you can use almost anything you like as a cheque too

Burnsy2023 · 27 May 2009 at 19:43

JohnnyG said:
I believe you can use almost anything you like as a cheque too

Despite what people seem to think, banks rarely accept them.

GreatAuk · 27 May 2009 at 20:04

BigglesPiP said:
If you write £10 on a piece of paper you can spend it as money, if the public has faith in it.

You've not read that terry pratchett book 'making money' have you? Because that's what happens.

BigglesPiP · 27 May 2009 at 20:08

GreatAuk said:
You've not read that terry pratchett book 'making money' have you? Because that's what happens.

Although a few Terry Pratchett books are in my list of things I want to read, I've not read that.

meghatronic · 27 May 2009 at 20:16

trescodrucey said:
Yep, as long as the 2 serial numbers aren't damaged, then it's fine

Even then the bank might accept it. I had a chunk of a note missing and they sent it away and gave me £10.

Vonhelmet · 27 May 2009 at 20:18

Any more than half a note is valid. So the bigger half is legal tender. The smaller half is worthless.

I'd tape it together and spend it.

BigglesPiP · 27 May 2009 at 20:37

vonhelmet said:
Any more than half a note is valid. So the bigger half is legal tender. The smaller half is worthless.

I'd tape it together and spend it.

And precisely 50%?

Tefal · 27 May 2009 at 20:38

BigglesPiP said:
And precisely 50%?

An impossibility

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WalesOwl · 27 May 2009 at 20:40

Rip some off one of em.

Redz · 27 May 2009 at 21:42

take it to the bank of england and claim your £10 worth of gold bullion

BigglesPiP · 27 May 2009 at 21:56

Tefal said:
An impossibility .

Not if there are an even number of molecules in the note.

varial · 27 May 2009 at 22:09

Didnt some dustbin man find a bag of about 5 grand torn into peices, he had to wait months for the police to look into it but they couldnt trace any thing so said he could have it.

Unfortunatly the bank needed all 4 corners of each note for it to be classed as money but it was torn into thousands of pieces! gutted!!!!

Tefal · 27 May 2009 at 22:10

BigglesPiP said:
Not if there are an even number of molecules in the note.

except every time it's touched/blown/shaken atoms are lost and gained

GreatAuk · 27 May 2009 at 22:23

varial said:
Didnt some dustbin man find a bag of about 5 grand torn into peices, he had to wait months for the police to look into it but they couldnt trace any thing so said he could have it.

Unfortunatly the bank needed all 4 corners of each note for it to be classed as money but it was torn into thousands of pieces! gutted!!!!

lol who would shred/tear that much money? surely if it was a bad batch of fakes they would be burnt, and if it was real money from the start... :eek:

..or maybe it was just bill gates toilet paper delivery lost in the post

Redz said:
take it to the bank of england and claim your £10 worth of gold bullion

would be nice if that worked, but I've got a feeling they would find some reason not to give it to you.

... If they do, I'll go and ask for 1p in gold

Vonhelmet · 27 May 2009 at 22:52

BigglesPiP said:
And precisely 50%?

The answer is in my post. Any more than half a note is legal tender.

Vonhelmet · 27 May 2009 at 22:53

GreatAuk said:
would be nice if that worked, but I've got a feeling they would find some reason not to give it to you. ... If they do, I'll go and ask for 1p in gold

It should theoretically be silver anyway... Given that our currency is sterling.

WalesOwl · 27 May 2009 at 22:54

take it to the bank of england and claim your £10 worth of gold bullion

Bank of england is the bankers bank. Not a general public bank.

I get around · 28 May 2009 at 01:10

tape it together, as long as theres both halves of a note anyone will accept it, i've known that since i was about 10.

H0ax! · 28 May 2009 at 01:13

just make sure you take it to someone that doesn't care... like in a supermarket : p

I get around · 28 May 2009 at 01:24

H0ax! said:
just make sure you take it to someone that doesn't care... like in a supermarket : p

It's legal tender, it's got nothing to do with caring about it.
I'm a part time supermarket worker unfortunately, student life aint free, and I check all the notes to make sure they're real, i can check a note without even looking at it. I've caught people out and never put a fake note in my till, it's got nothing to do with the company, it's to do with people realising I'm not stupid. Watermarks and holograms are easy to fake compared to paper feel and weight, and also raised text.

Theres more people with skimmed cards and quite commonly, photocopied vouchers than there is notes nowadays though to be honest.