20 pounds with defect

[Marcin]

Anyone seeing this defect??

[Marcin]

Like you can see under a Queen nose, white line. Anyone else seen things like that???

[Paddy]

Welcome to the forum @Marcin.

I can see the defect you mention. I am not much into note collecting, so I don't know if this is a known issue.

My first concern would be to check if they are genuine as there are a lot of fake notes around at the moment. Find a local friendly shop and get them to check one on their detector.

[copper123]

This is a know variety know as the "Aqualung queen " £20 note .

Often found while browsing your notes on a park bench by people with little to do

[absence of uniformity]

On 4/14/2026 at 1:15 PM, Paddy said:

Welcome to the forum @Marcin.

I can see the defect you mention. I am not much into note collecting, so I don't know if this is a known issue.

My first concern would be to check if they are genuine as there are a lot of fake notes around at the moment. Find a local friendly shop and get them to check one on their detector.

https://www.essex.police.uk/news/essex/news/news/2026/may/wickford-counterfeit-currency-sentenced/ RM pulled 30,000 notes out of circulation supposedly from these two.