Black Rose Posted October 26, 2007 Share Posted October 26, 2007 If I made a £500,000 note and try to pass it off as real money would it be classed as counterfeit? Answer tomorrow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texasluvsjonny Posted October 26, 2007 Share Posted October 26, 2007 I don't think there is such a thing, so no. :thinking: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texasluvsjonny Posted October 26, 2007 Share Posted October 26, 2007 But if you get someone to take one, I'll give you a twenty for a faker when I get there next week so I can have some serious walking around money. :laugh3: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RICK8 Posted October 27, 2007 Share Posted October 27, 2007 Yes,you would be locked up for fraud etc.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuck kottke Posted October 27, 2007 Share Posted October 27, 2007 Well, I suppose that and more! I did that with US currency once, and faced 6 years in fed. prison! Fortunately, the state kept trying me on forgery charges (our bank notes are "signed" by various bigwhigs) - spun their wheels on it, and spared me the electric chair! Laws in Great Britain might be different, but since our system's oldest institutions were at one time English, we may have similar laws as yours regarding currency. Well, you could try it, and see what happens!:laugh3: (could be exciting!) EU currency is now preferred?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrMagpie Posted October 27, 2007 Share Posted October 27, 2007 The answer is A. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuck kottke Posted October 27, 2007 Share Posted October 27, 2007 Banks make big notes to pass to one another.. one could exist! (usually these are special notes, tho..);) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RICK8 Posted October 27, 2007 Share Posted October 27, 2007 Oh is that so... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texasluvsjonny Posted October 27, 2007 Share Posted October 27, 2007 If no such bill exist, then you can't be charged with "counterfeiting", because you have not made a fake "legal tender" , but if someone were to accept that, they should be charged with being a dumbass. :laugh3: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Rose Posted October 27, 2007 Author Share Posted October 27, 2007 Your correct, as a £500,000 note is not technically a counterfeit, because that word refers to legal tender - and the Bank of England has never issued £500,000 notes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
busybeeburns Posted October 27, 2007 Share Posted October 27, 2007 You've been reading too many bank raid stories :P Counterfeit gang tried to con Bank of England out of £28billion - using 'special issue' £500,000 notes http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=489190&in_page_id=1770 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Rose Posted October 27, 2007 Author Share Posted October 27, 2007 So your saying the BBC are wrong: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2007/10/post_32.shtml :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RICK8 Posted October 28, 2007 Share Posted October 28, 2007 I'm saying your bored David! :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Rose Posted October 28, 2007 Author Share Posted October 28, 2007 I'm saying your bored David! :P Yep :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RICK8 Posted October 29, 2007 Share Posted October 29, 2007 Hahaha.:smug: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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