Numbers and letters on pound note?

[Neil5678]

Hi everyone,

Been doing some research on these promisary notes and found out in america they have printed

social security numbers on them. My question is, on our bank notes in england have something similar to

a national insurance number with 2 letters at the start of this code i.e LK or JJ, can anyone confirm

if this code is linked to a national insurance number?

thanks

neil

[SbutC]

Hi Neil,

The numbers are merely unique identifiers for each banknote. They contain information about when and where the note was printed and I think they have some error-detection encoding to make them more difficult to create forgeries.

Think about it. Every note has a unique number, so if they were NI numbers then why would some people be worth £5 and others £20. There are also more than 2 billion UK notes in circulation, all with a unique serial number - far more than the number of people in the country.

The US system is the same, the serial number denotes where and when the note was printed. Any connection to particular people's SS numbers is purely coincidental.

Regards,

Skeptical but Curious

[Neil5678]

Very interesting, thanks for the reply, my theroy was that they were using first digits inc letters and last 2 numbers
as reference numbers of location. So there could be lots differnt pound notes with your number on with reference
to where they were printed. So you wouldnt have someone with just £5 lol, they would have lots of different notes with extra ref numbers on. As we know all money is printed with a promise to pay the bearer which is created by
our signature.