Post by bickern on Dec 6, 2008 2:57:49 GMT 2
It's some jigsaw puzzle - £10,000 in cut-up £10 and £20 notes.
Six months ago, Graham Hill found £10,000 crammed into two litter bins in Lincoln.
The only problem: someone had carefully cut the notes into thousands of inch-square pieces. Even the serial numbers had been cut in half.
Since no-one has claimed the cash, the binman can keep it, and the Bank of England will give him new notes for old.
To qualify as exchangeable, each note will have to be painstakingly reassembled with the following features legible:
Signature of the Bank of England's Chief Cashier, Andrew Bailey
The "promise to pay the bearer on demand" (near top of the note, under Bank of England heading)
BOTH the unique serial numbers that appear on each note
"It is important to have both serial numbers - otherwise we might find ourselves paying out twice on the same note," says a bank spokeswoman.
The above was just a cut and paste from the beginning of the article. Read the full article here -:
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7765701.stm
Six months ago, Graham Hill found £10,000 crammed into two litter bins in Lincoln.
The only problem: someone had carefully cut the notes into thousands of inch-square pieces. Even the serial numbers had been cut in half.
Since no-one has claimed the cash, the binman can keep it, and the Bank of England will give him new notes for old.
To qualify as exchangeable, each note will have to be painstakingly reassembled with the following features legible:
Signature of the Bank of England's Chief Cashier, Andrew Bailey
The "promise to pay the bearer on demand" (near top of the note, under Bank of England heading)
BOTH the unique serial numbers that appear on each note
"It is important to have both serial numbers - otherwise we might find ourselves paying out twice on the same note," says a bank spokeswoman.
The above was just a cut and paste from the beginning of the article. Read the full article here -:
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7765701.stm