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£10 NOTE MISSING QUEEN'S FACEThis item from the Mirror describes an interesting note discovered at an ATM machine. Is it a legitimate error, or some post-printing shenanigans? Unusual item either way. Also found via News & Notes from the Society of Paper Money Collectors (Volume VI, Number 40 March 23, 2021). -Editor Peter Coleman, 72, was surprised when he took the £10 from an ATM and spotted that the Queen was missing. The grandfather-of-three then tried to use the note in a shop, where a worker said she could not accept it as it was not legitimate. But when she scanned the money she conceded that it was 'real' - giving Peter, from Littleborough, Greater Manchester, a bright idea. 
"I just thought that it was very unusual and that it could be a sign." An article in yesterday's Coin World by Arthur Friedberg concurs with my suspicion - it's not that hard to scrape design elements off the polymer substrate, and this is unlikely to be a genuine production error. -Editor
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