New £20 note
This doesn't seem to have been particularly well broadcast, but the UK is getting a new £20 note on the 13th of March. For banknote geeks amongst you, it is the first of the new F series of notes (current notes are all series E) and features Scottish economist, Adam Smith on the reverse. Trying to get clear images of the thing is proving remarkably difficult. The Bank of England's own site shows the current note in excellent detail - so you know how to spot a forgery. But I can not find any useful images of the new one - so you can recognise it as proper money when you first get one. The best I could do - after a lot of hunting around - was an image of the back of the new note on the BBC News site (link at the bottom of this post). A week on Tuesday, these new notes are going to start popping out of cash points around the country (south of the border anyway) and I suspect it's going to come as a bit of a surprise to most people. It doesn't seem like the best way to rol...