£50 notes

[Bishop Thumpety-Thump]

Just picked up some pounds for my trip home in January and they’ve included some £50 notes. Last time I was back nowhere would accept this denomination, so just wondering what options I have, will supermarket self serves accept them for example? Or can I take them into a bank and exchange them for smaller notes?

 

[BNJ1878]

Just picked up some pounds for my trip home in January and they’ve included some £50 notes. Last time I was back nowhere would accept this denomination, so just wondering what options I have, will supermarket self serves accept them for example? Or can I take them into a bank and exchange them for smaller notes?

Some places will take them, but if you're passing a main post office they'll take them off your hands for smaller denomination notes.

Did they give you 'new' plasticy notes or the old paper ones? If it's the later ones they'll need to be exchanged at the post office anyway (unless you have a UK bank acc, banks don't seem too keen to help non-account holders these days)

 

[chrismpw]

Shoukdnt be a fuss. We use them to buy a loaf of artisan bread over here now.

 

[BNJ1878]

Shoukdnt be a fuss. We use them to buy a loaf of artisan bread over here now.

Genuinely surprised you don't bake your own in an oven you fashioned out of a discarded piece of traction engine.

 

[Kurt.]

Get loads of these all the time, I just usually use them to wipe my arris or to light the fire… saves all the hassle trying to get rid of them in shops

 

[LEONARD]

Bullseye!

 

[Bishop Thumpety-Thump]

Some places will take them, but if you're passing a main post office they'll take them off your hands for smaller denomination notes.

Did they give you 'new' plasticy notes or the old paper ones? If it's the later ones they'll need to be exchanged at the post office anyway (unless you have a UK bank acc, banks don't seem too keen to help non-account holders these days)

It’s the new plastic ones with Alan Turing on. No UK bank account any more but will head to the post office if I can’t break them anywhere else, cheers.

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

Just picked up some pounds for my trip home in January and they’ve included some £50 notes. Last time I was back nowhere would accept this denomination, so just wondering what options I have, will supermarket self serves accept them for example? Or can I take them into a bank and exchange them for smaller notes?

A pint is about £48 these days, so you'll be laughing

 

[ArtetaMagic]

Was in a shop recently and they had a sign saying no £50 notes. I was raging, I had to break a 100 instead

 

[Tipp blue]

There used to be a 500 euro note, got a couple of them once... you think trying to get somewhere to take a 50 is tough..

 

[Cool_Blue]

They’ve always been a tricky thing to get rid of, bit like finding Scottish notes in your wallet. But with the way costs have risen in the past year, no establishment should have a problem with them now. e.g. was in my local the other day, 2 pints of lager and 2 glasses of wine……£24. Handing over a £50 for that shouldn’t be an issue.

 

[neil999]

Weird how they haven't become more popular with inflation

ISNT IT

 

[DavidH]

 

[Connor mcloud]

The bigger bars, restaurants and shops in town will take them no bother

 

[Lee Smith]

Eddie...A, the Queen doesn't have jugs, she's royalty, and B, if she did she certainly wouldn't get them out on the back of a fiver.... certainly not... she'd save them up for the fifty