On September 30th, the Bank of England will officially no longer accept £20 and £50 paper banknotes as legal tender. The Bank has been encouraging residents to deposit these bills as soon as possible, as they will be viewed as worthless in a week.
One user replying to the tweet said, “The way Sterling is going it might be better to keep them to use as fuel this winter…”
According to the Bank of England, these bills are being replaced with “new polymer £20 notes featuring JMW Turner, and polymer £50 notes featuring Alan Turing.”
After [September 30th], many UK banks will accept withdrawn notes as deposits from customers. Some Post Offices may also accept withdrawn notes as a deposit into any bank account you can access with them.
The Bank of England will always exchange any withdrawn notes, including paper notes we have withdrawn in the past.
The Bank said
The Bank also explains on their website that these newer polymer notes have more built-in security features.
It should be noted that all legal notes still have the now-deceased Queen Elizabeth II printed on them. Traditionally, the current King or Queen’s effigy is printed on the notes. So far, the Bank of England has not made a formal declaration on this change.
In a press release published by the Bank on the 8th, they said,
As the first monarch to feature on Bank of England banknotes, the Queen’s iconic portraits are synonymous with some of the most important work we do. Current banknotes featuring the image of Her Majesty The Queen will continue to be legal tender. A further announcement regarding existing Bank of England banknotes will be made once the period of mourning has been observed.
This is important to note because there are well-over two dozen nations whose legal tender bare the Queen’s face on them. If the Bank of England decides to make the change to escribe the now King Charles III on them, most of these nations will alter their currencies accordingly.
These nations include:
- Australia
- Bahamas
- Belize
- Bermuda
- British Caribbean Territories
- British Honduras
- Canada
- Cayman Islands
- Ceylon
- Cyprus
- East African Currency Board
- East Caribbean States
- Falkland Islands
- Fiji
- Gibraltar
- Great Britain (Bank of England)
- Guernsey
- Hong Kong
- Isle of Man
- Jamaica
- Jersey
- Malaya and North Borneo
- Malta
- Mauritius
- New Zealand
- Rhodesia and Nyasaland
- Rhodesia
- Saint Helena
- Scotland (Royal Bank of Scotland)
- Seychelles
- Solomon Islands
- Southern Rhodesia
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Zambia (essay only)
CNBC noted that Australia and New Zealand have already announced that will be replacing the Elizabeth’s image with Charles’, but no dates have been given. Canada currently has no plans to do so, nor are they required to.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
As noted in The WP report covering the Queen’s death, I cited one woman in the British media who said, “Between now and then, the world will be changing, Britain will be changing. Already tonight coming here you see the advertisements on the hoardings, most of them have already been taken down and they’re pictures of the Queen instead, so already that’s unprecedented to most of us.”
I, like many others, have speculated if this now the ‘perfect’ opportunity for these globalists and central banks to now start issuing their regulated cryptos and CDCBs, instead of “spending all this money physical tender, that is not good for the environment, and is too much money during this energy crisis,” they may say.
Will that happen? I don’t know, but it sure seems like a good catalyst for it. What I can say is the way the Bank of England has been marketing this elimination of paper notes is definitely priming people for the eventual switch to digital only.
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We of course know where all of this is eventually headed towards:
[16] And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: [17] And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. [18] Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.Revelation 13:16-18
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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