WRITING WWW.INDYMEDIA.ORG.UK ON FIVE POUND NOTES

Dave | 11.05.2002 18:00

Someone was telling me the other day about how he'd started writing "www.indymedia.org.uk" on five pound notes. He said that if loads of people started doing this then it would be really good publicity for the website.

Does anyone know if this is illegal? What kind of trouble could you get into for doing this?

Dave

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WRITING WWW.INDYMEDIA.ORG.UK ON FIVE POUND NO

11.05.2002 19:29

It is a great idea.

salem
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if it ain't it oughta be

11.05.2002 19:38

The vast majority of bank notes have traces of cocaine on them, so if Her Majesty's promisory notes are allowed to advertise the international drugs trade then I don't see why they can't be used to advertise an anarchist website.

lenin

Further Question

11.05.2002 20:12

Would it be illegal for people (such as you the reader) to regularly post a message like this one on the indymedia site so as to give people the idea of doing it. If people kept posting the message then more and more people would write www.indymedia.org.uk on five pound notes and then more and more people would visit the site.

I'm not condoning this because it might be illegal.

But does anyone with legal knowledge know about the legality or not of such advertising.

Disclaimer - I'm not condoning this action.

anon

hm

11.05.2002 22:14

I know it was made illegal to stamp advertising on coins when lots of companies started doing it in the nineteenth centuary, not sure about notes though... it might even be treason to willfully deface her majesty's currency, though loads of people seem to sgwiggle numbers on them with marker pen when adding up.

also

11.05.2002 22:21

they are replacing fivers this summer with a new design - they have the shortest lifespan of all the notes...they get crumpled up in pockets and no-one looks at them closely anyway - probably best to think about higher denominations.

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12.05.2002 00:11

but fivers are given back as change.
Whereas the other notes tend to go straight to the bank.
If they've got advertising on them they'll possibly be taken out of circulation.

I dunno, maybe tenners are a good compromise.

Certainly 20s go straight from the till to the bank - they never get given as change apart from from 50 pound notes but they're fucking rare.

go for it!

13.05.2002 13:21

I was working behind the bar at a festival in Glasgow last year and loads of the pound coins had stickers advertising some club on them. So we don't have to stop at notes! As regards the fiver/tenner debate - why not write it on all of them?

Heidi