A NEW plastic £50 note featuring the infamous WWII code-breaker Alan Turing on it has been launched into circulation today. But a few of these new notes could be worth far more than their face value - and could be sold for thousands of pounds on eBay.
The serial number in the top left hand of the banknote needs to begin with AA14 or JC14. If that's the case, your $50 may be worth as much as $1500. The reason for its value is simple but arbitrary: there are not very many of them. And collectors are willing to pay high prices for banknotes just because they're rare.
The serial number has to begin with 'BA 15' for the note to be worth the big sum. Depending on condition it is worth between $100 and $1,750. Valuable $50 notes will have a Stevens/Parkinson signature combination on one edge.
The silver crisis of 1920 and the 1920 Star Florin and 1920 Star Shilling. And the silver crisis of 1945 and 1946 and the 1945 Penny, Australia's rarest penny. And this 1946 cupro nickel florin, an experimental strike in an alternative metal and the the only example held by a private collector.
Australian $2 notes were issued from 1966 right up until they were replaced by Australian 2 dollar coins in 1988. Some Australian 2 dollar notes can be particularly valuable with certain serial numbers or if they are in mint condition. Values can reach up to $5,000 for the rarest old Australian two dollar bill.
Video Transcript Press Enter or Space key to reveal or hide content following this heading. Australian banknotes are among the safest in the world. And to keep them that way, the Reserve Bank has developed a new $50 banknote. You'll see many innovative security features including a distinctive top-to-bottom window.
Key security features
Tilt the note from side to side. Check the words change between 'Fifty' and 'Pounds'. Within the two gold foil squares on the front of the £50 note, the images change between '50' and a '£' symbol when the note is tilted.
The new $50 note has the basic design elements as the one in your wallet and it features portraits of Aboriginal writer and inventor, David Unaipon, and Australia's first female member of parliament, Edith Cowan.
Despite not being able to spend the old notes after September 30 next year, they will not become worthless. You should still be able to exchange notes at your local bank or at a major post office. Alternatively, it is possible to exchange expired notes directly with the Bank of England – either in person or by post.
The new £50 note is the latest British currency to be printed on polymer. The Bank of England have switched to this material as it "makes them harder to counterfeit than paper notes." One new security feature of the polymer note includes a hologram image that changes between the words 'Fifty' and 'Pounds'.
USA 1882 $100 Gold Certificate – $117,500 (£94k) Gold certificates were used as paper currency in the USA between 1863 and 1933. They guaranteed the bearer the note's value in gold. The rarest specimens are worth a fortune – this 1882 $100 version, one of just seven, went under the hammer for $117,500 (£94k) in 2013.
Generally, the more unique the serial number on your dollar bill, the more likely it is to be worth more than face value. Some examples of uniqueness include repeating numbers, numbers with a star after them and sequences (such as 12345678).
Flawless uncirculated banknotes are usually worth more than their circulated counterparts. Well-centred notes also tend to be of greater value, due to their greater desirability among collectors. Damage, or minor flaws, will cause value to drop. The bigger the damage, the greater the loss.
Turner, and polymer £50 notes featuring Alan Turing. After 30 September 2022, the new polymer notes will be the only ones with legal tender status. Once this deadline has passed, people will no longer be able to spend Bank of England paper notes in shops, or use them to pay businesses.
a metallic hologram which changes between the words 'Fifty' and 'Pounds' when the note is tilted. a large see-through window with a gold and green foil on the front depicting a finely detailed metallic microchip image.
Paper £50 notes will no longer be accepted as legal tender from Friday 30 September, 2022. The latest polymer banknote, which was printed in 2021, features an image of the famous mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing.
The current note, the first of this denomination to be printed in polymer, entered circulation on 23 June 2021. It bears the image of Queen Elizabeth II on the obverse and computer scientist and World War II codebreaker Alan Turing on the reverse, with his birth date reflecting the release date.
Our paper £20 and £50 notes were withdrawn from circulation after 30 September 2022.
Security Thread
Hold the note to light to see an embedded thread running vertically to the right of the portrait. The thread is imprinted with the text USA 50 and a small flag in an alternating pattern and is visible from both sides of the note. The thread glows yellow when illuminated by ultraviolet light.
They are part of the Australian Pound banknotes series. The Commonwealth Bank of Australia started issuing these 1000 Australian Pound banknotes in 1914.
The Reserve Bank of Australia has estimated that approximately 19 million one dollar notes are still in circulation, so most Australian 1 dollar notes are still only worth a dollar each. Some one dollar notes are very valuable if they have the right serial numbers or if they're in mint condition.
They were released in two versions, a non mintmark version, and a 'C' mintmark coin. The low mintage of just 500,000 makes the non mintmark coin worth around $100 while the 'C' mintmrk coin can be worth $300 or more.
Which Australian One Dollar Coins Are Valuable? Australia's rarest one dollar coin is the 2000 $1/10c mule - this is the one to look for! A few years ago, a mint condition example sold at auction for more than $10,000.