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		vidarh on Dec 17, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Only An Idiot Would Rob a Bank: How Inflation Defl... Meanwhile, in the UK, most people rarely if ever handle the 50 pound notes that are in circulation - I've only seen perhaps a handful of them in the 12 years I've lived in London.

PJones on Dec 18, 2012 [–]

That's mostly because they're harder to get rid of than Scottish currency. Only the major supermarkets seem to accept them.

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