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mr suffering

I like the colour of the new notes and think that they are a welcomed change. However, I am a little bit worried about the confusion this may cause to the drunks and homeless people who live in the parks and shelters due to the recession. As they are poor they may not be able to read a JEP and know about the new notes. When they pick up their benefits they may pay for their special brew cans using the wrong notes and underhand shops may take liberties with them.

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Confused

Now it’s not just Guernsey that’ll have notes with a picture of an old lady who looks nothing like the Queen! Was the designer myopic??

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Mick

Mr Suffering,

I too share your concerns and am disgusted with the States for not having this one through. Not only are the homeless and the drunk at a handicap, but spare a thought for the short sighted and mentally challenged, both of whom now find themselves further disenfranchised by a government that couldn’t care less. I’ll bet the bankers won’t have trouble identifying which note is which, oh no…

To alleviate the problem may I suggest that the kind-hearted and community minded take it upon themselves to scrawl the actual sum of each note they currently possess upon both sides of the note in thick black marker pen. This should make identifying the sums concerned easier for all. I have already started on the notes in my wallet…not that I have many!

Mick

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designer

REALLY?!

REEEEAALLLY!?

these note’s are hideous and very poorly designed!!

As a designer I would have done the work for free just to make sure these “12 year old using photoshop” messes never hit the streets!!

I really like the new colours but putting everything in squares like that was a waste of good design space… You want to show jersey’s most iconic scenes then show them! don’t stick them in a box when there’s space for more… I could replicate these on microsoft word… I wonder how long we can get away with passing the 5′s off for 20s?

The new colours though still bring new life to the notes but it owuld have been nice if they corresponded to their current colours… especially useful in the transition phase where £25 in your wallet may look like both £10 and £40 at the same time

To summarise, they are hideous and a competition should have been run open to the whole island as there are many many people in my field who would have enjoyed competing for such a prize for absolutely nothing and ended up with much better results!

its the whole yellow banana thing all over again.. I hope the states fire their design team soon it’s getting beyond a joke.. perhaps the london 2012 design team need some new staff.. send them there, they’d fit right in.

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PJG

To all those who dont like it.
Give it to charity.
Does it realy matter what it looks like,so long as the colecters mount them in their books and dont actualy use them, Jersey benefits.

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david brown

i could not care less what colour our fiat currency is .
for many it is shrinking in our pockets and buying less and less.

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