Grauiad wrote:The last date for using the old £10 note featuring Charles Darwin will be 1 March 2018, the Bank of England has announced.
After that date only the new £10 notes, featuring Jane Austen, will be legal tender. The plastic notes featuring Austen – the first female writer to feature on a banknote – were first issued in in September and by early October accounted for 55% of £10 notes in circulation.
The Bank of England will continue to exchange the paper Darwin £10 notes, first issued in 2000, after 1 March.
The paper £10 is going the way of the old £5 notes, which ceased to be legal tender in May. Both new notes have encountered controversy because they contain tallow, an animal byproduct.
Better dig up your stashes and check, before it's too late.