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What colour is a five pound note?

DebbieD, 10 September, 2008 at 08:49 Posted on Off Topic Posts 0 24

What colour do you think a five pound note is?

H was taking my money this morning and he took a tenner and a fiver. I asked him to give me back the blue one and he looked blankly and then handed me back the tenner!!

When I said that I meant the fiver, he said it was green! I asked step-son and he said a fiver was green too.

According to the internet, it is definitely green!

Am I the only person in the world who thinks a £5 is blue?

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Latest activity by voddy vixen, 10 September, 2008 at 19:22
  • Shiny
    Rockstar September 2005 Cambridgeshire
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    I would have said blue/greile them by colour in the till without really looking.

    Off the top of my head to me:

    10 is brown

    20 purple

    50 pink

    Am I right?

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  • KB3
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    It's blue in my mind. Not many about these days.

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  • Flaming Nora
    Beginner May 2003
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    It is definitely green.

    The old fivers used to be blue.

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  • DebbieD
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    According to this: https://www.answers.com/social-issues/What_is_the_colour_of_UK_5_pound_note

    a fiver is green, but I'm glad I'm not the only person who thinks it's blue!

    Shiny - I think you're right, although it's so long since I've seen a £50 I would have to look it up on the internet. ?

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  • kizmyasnow
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    Green

    http://www.bidorbuy.co.za/user_images/965/599965_5_POUND.JPG

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  • Flaming Nora
    Beginner May 2003
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    Old bluey

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  • KB3
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    A 50 pound note is red in my mind. The ink rubs off a light red / pinky colour, but it's definitely more red than pink.

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  • Gryfon
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    Well it's more of a turquoise ?

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  • Gryfon
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    Oh and I would have handed you the £10 note but only because Guernsey £10 notes are blue and £5 notes are brown ?

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  • catwoman
    Beginner July 2005
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    See, even having looked at that link, I'd still say it was blue...it's only that middle strip that's green, really. But it's sort of turquoisey, so a bit indiscriminate...lol.

    I'd have said a tenner was orange, twenty was purple and fifty was red.

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  • chids
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    I'd say blue too.

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  • loobyg
    Beginner November 2008
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    Blue!!

    They're different up here tho - definatly bluer than the english equivalent:

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  • July
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    I would say they were blue, but just realised its really only the scottish ones.

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  • LittleStar
    Beginner March 2009
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    I would say turquoise blue. One pound notes used to be green.

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  • Dooby
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    Jersey £5 notes are a lovely purple colour whilst £10's are red so i'd have probably given you the £5 note back

    Actually you've reminded me i need to get some Sterling currency out for the weekend - must take a trip to the harbour on the way home for the english cashpoint there.

    Oh and we still have £1 notes here to and they're green

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  • Sunset21
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    I'd have said blue and green lol! But, if you'd have said leave the blue one then I'd have known which one you meant.

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  • Zebra
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    I'd say blue - green note remains the £1 note (in Scotland still, I think?) for me.

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  • English Girl in Bangkok
    Beginner August 2008
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    It's green for me, but now I can't stop thining about the 10 pound note, as agree with both the posters - one said brown, one said orange, have no English notes with me at the moment to look at only the worthless Thai Baht!

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  • Peaches
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  • Hoobygroovy
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    I'd have said blue for the £5 and brown for the £10. They may have touches of green and orange respectively on the front but the colours on the reverse are predominantly blue and brown. I've certainly never called them green and orange drinking vouchers, they're always blue and brown. ?

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  • Flump
    Expert January 2012
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    A fiver is sooo blue! (to me anyway)

    A tenner is orange

    A twenty is burple

    A fifty is red, and I need more of them!

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  • A
    Beginner November 2008
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    Blue. Though these new Bank of Scotland notes (£10 brown, £20 purple, £50 green) all look like euros to me and I almost refused one the first time i got one at work...

    http://www.britishnotes.co.uk/news_and_info/scottishlatestnews/index.php

    Jo

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    Beginner September 2005
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    I was just about to post about these. They are well ugly.

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  • voddy vixen
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    I say blue, mr v says green.

    I agree with Gryfon, it's more of a turquoise than anything else.

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