Well hunter, each pound is devided into 100 pence. coin wise, you get a
penny (one pence), two pence, five pence, ten pence, twenty pence, fifty
pence coins, and of course the pound coin. In the mid nineties, the
government also introduced the two pound coin, which is now the highest
denomination of coin in britain.
After the two pound coin, you go into notes, five pound notes (often called
fivers), ten pound notes (known as tenners), twenty and fifty pound notes.
not being rich, fifty is the largest note I've seen, though 100, 500 and I
believe 1000 pound notes do also exist.
An interesting fact about british notes is that unlike dollars, they are all
different colours and sizes, all having a coloured boarder around their
picture, as well as a flashing metallic point which is what banks used to
test the note is genuine and not forged. Fivers for instance are smaller and
half a pale blue boarder, tenners are larger and have an orange one,
twenties are larger still and have purple, and fifties are wider than a 20
but not as long and have a bright pink cast to them.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
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