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Jonty Wareing

@michaelgemar @nev Doesn't need to be convincing - the paper cites The Association of Commercial Banknote Issuers: "banks will only reimburse you with the face value of a damaged banknote if you still have at least half of the banknote and visible serial number".

They might be real mad about it though.

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Michael Gemar

@jonty @nev I wonder if a note intentionally shredded by the government to take it out of circulation is legally considered โ€œdamagedโ€โ€ฆ

Natasha Nox ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ

@michaelgemar @jonty @nev The government would have to proof that. It's not the citizen's job to know whether a note was governmentally shredded before.

Michael Gemar

@Natanox @jonty @nev If you got it from a paperweight sold at the Hong Kong Monetary Authority visitor center, thatโ€™s probably proof enough.

Atomic Fox

@jonty @michaelgemar @nev

The real question is, are enough pieces of any single note included to reconstruct a complete serial number?

Martin Jost

@jonty @michaelgemar @nev
Getting a reasonable serial number (IF this is cut in pieces) might be tricky...

Inga stands with Ukraine

@jonty @michaelgemar @nev in this context, "half of the banknote" usually means "half of the banknote in one piece" (and also that's a weird wording because in practice usually a bit more than 50% is required).
Otherwise it would be trivial to convert e.g. two whole banknotes into three damaged ones.
(Also see the infinite chocolate paradox.)

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