The Fiver Project begins

I’ve pretty much given up on hearing from Sheila Sergenson’s golf club about the £5 note I found with her name written on it.

I’ve thought long and hard about what to do, and although I am convinced the note came into my hands for a reason, I’ve decided that that reason is not so I can become a stalker and be barred from Cumbernauld’s finest golf course.

Instead, I’ve begun to think about what would happen if I signed bank notes and released them into the wild. Would they float around the monetary system until they fall apart and are removed from circulation? Or would someone see my name on one of them, do a google search, and drop me an email to say where they found it?

I certainly hope it would be the latter – and it would be fascinating to see how long it took and how far each note travelled before I heard any news about it.

So today, I pledge to sign and photograph every £5 note I receive, and spend it again as I normally would. I’ll put the pictures on my website, hope someone inquisitive comes across them, and wait for their email. Which could potentially be a very, very long time.

And my first act will be to add my name to the note which already bears Sheila Sergenson’s name, and release it back into circulation.

Not the end of the story for that banknote, but hopefully just the beginning…