We've had a run of plastic £5 notes in circulation in scotland for about a year... it's not really a huge problem. I handle fairly large volume cash transactions on a daily basis and at speed - this has always been a slight issue with new notes. In my experience, paper £10 notes are the worst for sticking. The polymer ones actually slide apart more obviously during counting than new paper ones.

This is why the first thing I do when I get a stack of crisp new notes... is crush the **** out of them :smug:. Then alternate them front-to-back and voila - no chance of two sticking together. It's also a strangely satisfying feeling. They're so fresh and perfect... sometimes you just want to destroy something beautiful...

Load of bollox Scotland has had plastic fivers for over a year and i never had a problem with them sticking together.

Never had my fivers sticking together

Yes Correct they start Sept this year

4 years of getting rid of old fivers

..it must be costing a lot of money to change them so doing it when it's only going to be a temporary thing seems like the dumbest thing to me...

But thats how the always do it.


This Sept dirty old fivers
and the New Plastic Fivers

Bring it On

..they don't always phase out with temporary currency..?..old currency is just phased out as the new currency is produced, so it all seems a pointless waste of money to have a temporary thing like that...

Its not temp
Plastic Fivers are forever

....oh sorry I misunderstood, I thought that they were becoming coins in 4 years and this was just a temporary thing...will read the links/OP's more carefully then and look forward to seeing the sticky £5 notes...

in fairness US dollars are actually much worse for sticking together and plastic notes only really stick when they're in mint condition. Loads of places do them now, Canada, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Vietnam Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, infact plastic notes stick less than paper if anything.

Because you rarely get above 5 degrees :idc:

:joker:

I don't want plastic money, it makes me feel sad :(

http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/304/med...3793_fiver.jpg

RIP old £5 note.......

Aw Ruby :love:

But you wash that Dirt off it.
You will get used to to it, rubymoo


and Next Year
Plastic 10 pound notes

http://news.images.itv.com/image/fil...stream_img.jpg

This Sept

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That middle bit you can see through

Elizabeth Fry was robbed.

ugly

There's two good videos on this article which shows the new note in more detail/up close:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-25427663

That's so true about US Dollars, I went in October and got money from a cash machine and it all looked brand new and it was all stuck together, I was lucky I made a mistake of handing over two $20 instead of one to a nice person who warned me or I'd have been screwed over

Lmao

:joker:

Yes Good Video showing Next Years
New Plastic £10 note


Made before they said New fivers could stick together