Hi! Guys welcome back a quick video today recently Britain got a new five pound note
now this was announced months ago that this was happening they cam out a couple of weeks
ago so I'am a bit late to the party to be honest but I thought I'd share my first one
with you guys I went to a self service check out supermarket I bought something pretty
inexpensive put in ten pounds and my change came out like that and I'll be honest at first
I thought it had given me foreign currency as change it looks very different noticeably
different size to our old paper notes so I'll just show you a quick comparison that's the
new one so its slightly narrower and not quite as long yeah these ones these ones were paper
pretty easy to tear there we go these ones however it says they are made from a polymer
which feels like plastic I don't really want to tear it but lets give it a good go nope
pretty strong plastic so easy to clean the Queen on one side I promise to pay the bearer
on demand the some of five pounds slightly transparent there as you can see the Her Magesty
the Queen here and big Ben and Sir Winston Churchill on the reverse here it says I have
nothing to offer but blood toil tears and sweat so I wanted to give it a quick test
waterproof test now obviously the old ones are paper put them in the was you leave them
in your pockets stick them in the washing machine that's the end of that most all of
our other notes are paper too this one however plastic so in theory it should be waterproof
lets roll it up a practical demonstration a fat straw its fine so yeah that's an improvement
you can't do that with these old paper ones so yeah you can go swimming and use them as
straws so anyway I hope I hope you found this quick look at our new five pound interesting
I'll give it a dry now I'll give a shameless plug for my mechanise most YouTubers sell
T-shirts they are effectively T-Shirt salesmen I have merch too but its a little different
to most but one of the products I make and sell a solid silver money clips so lets see
if these are compatible yes they are so yeah if you need a solid silver hallmarked by the
Goldsmiths company in central London clip for your new five pound notes links to my
website and store are in the description bio everywhere so until next time Toodles!