UK Page £1 note serial number prefix query

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trickyd
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Posted: 13 Aug 2023, 12:31 #
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I have an assortment of old notes, mainly UK £1 and 10 shilling, and one of the serial numbers starts 35S as opposed to starting with letters. Is there any significance to this?

ZacUK Numista team
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Posted: 13 Aug 2023, 15:15 #
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N#202356 

 

 Guessing you mean 32S not 35S but there are many various prefixes, 

including A01 or DY21 and so on, and such as this 72E example … 

 

Token collector [1600-1899] with some coins
trickyd
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Posted: 13 Aug 2023, 15:28 #
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Yes, I did mean 32 not 35. It's just that I haven't seen any  (not that I have been looking) beginning with a number.

ZacUK Numista team
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Posted: 13 Aug 2023, 16:27 #
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 I found a few more … 

 

 

Token collector [1600-1899] with some coins
trickyd
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Posted: 13 Aug 2023, 17:59 #
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Must be more common than I thought. Mind you, they've been out of circulation for a while. Got caught out in a pub quiz lately, question was, when did pound coins replace pound notes? 1983 I said-wrong. 1988 was the answer as that was when the notes were taken out of circulation, and the coin replaced them.

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