I agree 100%

The bluey and the brownie, £5 and £10, were the best notes. Works of art. 👍

stunning designs, indded.

I think so, particular favourite of mine is the 1950's £5 with the lion and key.

@@Daveyboyz1978 that's a true stunner, but I love everything from UK & Territories. 😁

Thank you

The notes were usually tatty and these days £1 doesn't go far. In America there is politics involved and coins are unpopular but here we seems to like the coins better.

@@Daveyboyz1978 Well, coins are popular here, but that depends on the denomination used to buy things.

@@dariowiter3078 Even the amount of £5 notes in circulation are drastically reduced now since cash points do not dispense them. When I wss young £50 notes had huge purchasing power now it hardly filks the car with petrol.

I remember when they ceased the £1 notes, mid ‘80’s, I think, there was initial uproar, but soon forgotten. But I agree, I prefer notes to coins. 👍

I just started with one of each type and before I knew it I was adding the different signatures. Those early ones are expensive and it is tempting to sacrifice quality to get one cheaply but if you are hoping for a return you probably want to get the best notes you can.

I think it was the early red Bradbury 10 shillings, which was £300

It is series cat no. B348 which should have a small capital L on the bottom left of the reverse standing for Lithograph offset printing. The last run was CR90. Serial numbers with the foil introduced on CS01 (B349 catalogue number)

I had overlooked that connection so thanks for pointing it out... I should probably update this video too... I have re-organised my notes and had a few good additions since then...

Cool - I'll keep an eye out for your next video!

Might be a couple of hundred quid depending on condition. Error notes regularly come up in auction, and a missing serial number is a pretty cool one. Often, these have the serial number handwritten.

Yes it goes back to 1694 if memory serves, handwritten notes that were so easily forged they rapidly began printing parts of them and by 1808 the serial numbers were printed. These tended to be branch issued notes which were a far larger sum than the average working man would ever handle. We had provincial banks too issuing their own notes but I haven't really got involved in those.

The English paper was special security paper... It contained water marks and was not available. The modern paper is the same... They keep the recipe secret.

@@Daveyboyz1978 Okay! Would you know any similar materials? Thank you :)

You want high quality paper? Thin or thick? Any artists supplier should carry many different types of paper.

@@Daveyboyz1978 I think I may have found some! A paper that rymans stock called 'bank paper'. But thanks for your help!

Ebay "classic banknote folder". You want the three ring folder and mylar pages (archival safe plastic). Sleeves which are made of soft and smelly material can ruin coins and notes - mylar is inert.

Many thanks for the tip. I’ll look into it tomorrow. Great vid. 👍👍

Thanks for your tip on the folders. I got one to try out. A lot better than what I was using. 👍👍 I’ll defo get some more. Do you go to auctions/fairs etc? I’ve only been buying on e bay. I’m in northwest, can you recommend anywhere to look? I’m new into it.😀😀

@@shanemanchester the majority of my notes came out of circulation... Then I tried to backfill the older ones. I visit the London banknote exhibition once a year and have bought many on ebay too plus there are a couple of sites like vcoins where I have bought a couple.

Thanks, I’ll look into it. 👍👍

There is a book called "English paper money" by Pam West, thats generally where I get information on values and serial numbers etc.

please can you send me the information from the ten shilling not bank of England information card to me please@@Daveyboyz1978

The odd Manx coin ends up over here but I don't think I ever saw any notes from there.

Maybe I will sell something when I am an old man... for now I will keep everything. Glad you liked it.

@@Daveyboyz1978 haha fair enough, I know the feeling, very hard to part with them once you've got them. Keep up the good work 👍

Well at the time £50 was a lot of money and you only really saw them if you did a large withdrawal in the bank (cash points don't dispense £50 notes even now when they don't buy so much) So these were less common notes to see and I imagine most got cashed in because of the high value. They are quite expensive so that indicates some rarity but "rare" is not such a useful word... What is rare? To some its just a few known examples (clearly by that definition they aren't rare) to others it is more of a relative term... Compared to £1 notes they surely are rare.

@@Daveyboyz1978 because the sommerset 50 pound notes are kinda hard to find on ebay and when I do find them their expensive