The new £20 note worth £10,000: One with ultra-low serial number AA01 000010 up for auction - along with others likely to SMASH their estimates

UK Daily Mail ^ | March 13, 2020 | George Nixon

[C19fan]

New £20 notes with serial numbers as low as 000010 will be auctioned off next month, and could sell for as much as £10,000, This is Money can reveal. The Bank of England is hosting a charity sell-off of the new notes featuring artist JMW Turner, which will be run by London auction house Spink. The auction catalogue, provided to This is Money, reveals 140 lots of more than 200 notes, including ones with ultra-low serial numbers and an entire sheet of 45 £20 notes beginning with CC, will go under the hammer at 5pm on 8 April 2020.

[C19fan]

The new £20 is made out of polymer. I have some polymer notes and I hate the feel of them; very slippery.

[mewzilla]

Wonder what’s with all the purple?

Reminds me of Barney.

[null and void]

All the better to slip through your fingers, my dear...

[Moltke]

They are, of course, not worth 10k quid - hardly 20 quid, really. If it weren’t a CHARITY AUCTION they’d be lucky to get 50 quid.

[sinsofsolarempirefan]

I used to be a commercial numismatist. I never understood why some collectors cared about stuff like this. Give me an honest, used coin that saw plenty of ciruclation and changed hands many times in the culture and society it once played a part in.

[hanamizu]

Give me an honest, used coin that saw plenty of ciruclation and changed hands many times in the culture and society it once played a part in.

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That’s why I enjoy ancient coins. No two are exactly alike—each one struck by someone’s hand. Each one a little time capsule. What was the last thing bought by this coin before it was lost or hidden/buried?

[sinsofsolarempirefan]

I once had the privilage of handling a Jesus lifetime year issue shekel of Tyre, the coin type used to pay the temple tax and 30 of which are thought to have been used to pay Judas to betray Jesus. Now THAT was an interesting coin to handle.

[hanamizu]

The closest I can come to that is I have a “tribute penny”, i.e. a denarius of Tiberius that Jesus referred to in the “render unto Caesar that which is Caesar” passage. The idea that it was in existence during His lifetime boggles my mind.

[sinsofsolarempirefan]

I actually own one of those. They are fairly affordable considering what they are. Widows mite coins even more so.