At some point in the future it appears that the UK will start to use plastic, or rather polymer, banknotes instead of the paper ones that we currently use.
They will be introduced in 2016 with the new £5 with Winston Churchill and will be unleashed across the country. They will be changing size again to make it smaller and fit alongside note sizes in other countries.
Has anyone here used these type of notes and are they any good?
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