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Alan Turing to be the face of new £50 note

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Re: Alan Turing to be the face of new £50 note

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Post by DanBC »

tempguy9999 wrote: post #67
dmix wrote: post #54

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That $5 pound note looks great, I love the white sides with the emblem of the notes in general. But the pattern remains, those bills are for the most part extremely dense and overflowing with information and layered graphics. Especially the existing $50 one which is crammed full of stuff. It's like someone came up with a list of ideas and said yes to all of them.

It's mainly an anti-counterfeit thing to have that much info on them. Fact is, there's even more that you can't see, there's microwriting on them too (can't find an image, but on the £5 and probably all others) and it's almost unnoticeable without magnification. Can anyone find an image of this?

Number 9, "check the microlettering": https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/banknotes/...

A bigger but not clearer image here: https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/5-pound-note

Re: Alan Turing to be the face of new £50 note

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jacquesm wrote: post #66
toomuchtodo wrote: post #31

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May they live as long as they wish a happy and healthy life, and may they die when they are ready and have made the choice themselves.

What will happen is that you will have a bunch of very rich centenarians who will own just about everything simply for having a couple of decades head start on the newcomers. The same thing is already happening today. Unless you want to cap wealth and property this is not going to end well. It's already at the point today where real estate and other relatively scarce resources are much more available to and owned by…

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Re: Alan Turing to be the face of new £50 note

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Post by pstch »

isostatic wrote: post #58
Zenbit_UX wrote: post #21

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You might be living in a bubble, fifty quid is much less than $100 and I see those notes all the time. Getting currency exchanged before a trip? They give huge bills. Buying a used phone or furniture from Craigslist? Are you going to pay with 100 twenties? New ATMs even ask you the breakdown of bill sizes you are want.

> You might be living in a bubble, fifty quid is much less than $100 and I see those notes all the time. In nearly 40 years I can't think I've ever seen a £50 note, let alone spent one. €50 notes, sure, but Europe is backwards - I saw a €200 note once when buying a ferry ticket > Getting currency exchanged before a trip? They give huge bills. 1990 called and wants its features back. I haven't been to an airport yet t…

> €50 notes, sure, but Europe is backwards - I saw a €200 note once when buying a ferry ticket

To add to your anecdote, on the Europe part, in a few years in Europe I've seen a few 500€ and 200€ notes (the last one a few days ago, used to pay a 1€20 coffee), and lots of 100€ notes.

Re: Alan Turing to be the face of new £50 note

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Post by chrisseaton »

dmix wrote: post #54
jsty wrote: post #32

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> are they usually that messy looking? They don't really look much like that. See: https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/current-banknotes I'm hoping the fact that's just the concept art means it'll be reworked to appear more like the existing notes ...

That $5 pound note looks great, I love the white sides with the emblem of the notes in general. But the pattern remains, those bills are for the most part extremely dense and overflowing with information and layered graphics. Especially the existing $50 one which is crammed full of stuff. It's like someone came up with a list of ideas and said yes to all of them.

Do you not realise that the point of the complexity is to counter forgery?

You're not critiquing a web page design!

Re: Alan Turing to be the face of new £50 note

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Post by sneak »

tim333 wrote: post #65
menzoic wrote: post #53

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We won't be using bank notes in 50yrs. Should be all digital.

I remember similar sentiments about am radio, paper books, vinyl records and the like but things tend to stick around.

Most consumers don’t use any of those things any longer.

Re: Alan Turing to be the face of new £50 note

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Post by gambiting »

barrkel wrote: post #10

Perhaps the continuing decline in the currency's value will give us an opportunity to see £50 notes more frequently. I don't think I've seen one more than twice in the past 12 years, and I get cash out less and less frequently.

Tbf this is just this thing about the British society. I've lived here for 9 years and people are just not used to £50 notes, in several places I've had them refused(and I wasn't paying a £2 bill with a £50 note either, more like a £300 piece of jewelry and the shop just had a blank policy against accepting £50 notes, I've had this happen at petrol stations, at big stores, at small stores, people just don't like them). Where I'm from(Poland) high denomination banknotes are pretty common and no one seems to mind, I wouldn't have any qualms about paying for a 10PLN(~£2) item with a 200PLN(~£40) note, and I'm 100% certain that the seller wouldn't have any issue either. Meanwhile in the UK I was told by friends that if you're paying for £1 coffee with a £20 banknote you must be some kind of an inconsiderate dick. It's really weird to me.

Re: Alan Turing to be the face of new £50 note

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Post by iamnotacrook »

Athas wrote: post #23

It's good that Turing gets put on a banknote - and about time. However, the concept art in that article is really ugly. I'm not that familiar with British banknotes - are they usually that messy looking? Every piece of text is in a different font, and it seems pretty vulgar to have a quote on the note at all. There's even drop shadows! It honestly looks like something I'd put together in Corel Draw in the mid-2000s.

I just got back from a trip to the States and I have to say that US money is very boring by comparison to UK money. How on earth do blind/old people deal with the fact that all denominations are practically the same size, design, colour etc?

Re: Alan Turing to be the face of new £50 note

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Post by tempguy9999 »

DanBC wrote: post #71
tempguy9999 wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's mainly an anti-counterfeit thing to have that much info on them. Fact is, there's even more that you can't see, there's microwriting on them too (can't find an image, but on the £5 and probably all others) and it's almost unnoticeable without magnification. Can anyone find an image of this?

Number 9, "check the microlettering": https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/banknotes/... A bigger but not clearer image here: https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/5-pound-note

Thanks, that's excellent! I couldn't find a thing just now whereas I could find an example few years ago no problem - is it me or is google search getting totally shit?

Re: Alan Turing to be the face of new £50 note

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Post by Anechoic »

sneak wrote: post #76
tim333 wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I remember similar sentiments about am radio, paper books, vinyl records and the like but things tend to stick around.

Most consumers don’t use any of those things any longer.

Most consumers don’t use any of those things any longer.

Vinyl records, yes (mostly). I'm pretty sure the other two things are still in pretty wide use.

[0] https://money.cnn.com/2017/04/27/media/ebooks-sales-real-boo...

[1] http://www.insideradio.com/who-s-listening-am-radio-by-the-n...

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