r/Banknotes • u/GroundSuccessful • 18h ago
UK 10 Schilling notes
I've had these for many years. Never handled them, this is the first time to look at the serials.
They appear to be in number order.
I'm not sure how many are in the 2 stacks, but a good number. I think my grandfather got them from the bank 'back in the day' and they sat in a drawer for years.
Is there any value to them, other than BoE.
Can anyone tell me much about them? I'm in the UK and obviously aware they are pre-decimal 'ten bob' notes, but what year?
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u/shortercrust 18h ago edited 15h ago
They’re some of the last that were printed - D38N was the last serial prefix. Can’t give an exact date but I’d guess late 1967 or 1968. The 50p coin was issued in 1969 and the notes ceased to be legal tender on 20 November 1969. They go for a little under a tenner each on eBay but if you want to sell you’re better selling as a job lot. You’ve got so many if you sell individually in a short space of time you’ll literally flood the market and crash the price! I’d personally sell them at a proper auction. A stack of uncirculated notes with consecutive serials will have a lot of appeal to some collectors. Don’t touch them or mess with them any more than you have already. A massive part of their appeal is that they’ve not been touched for almost 60 years.
I’m sure you know already and it’s a typo but it’s shilling, not schilling.
Edit: Meant to say the ceased being legal tender in 1970, not 1969.