Limited Edition Legal Tender George Best £5 Fiver Bank Note

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But bootlegger Lennon was producing his own ‘bank notes’ on sophisticated printing equipment he had installed at his Camlough home to line his own pockets. The George Best Foundation — run by George’s sister Barbara and her husband Norman McNarry — was aware that forgers were cashing in on the charity notes and had little sympathy for the counterfeiter who faces jail for ripping off Bestie’s memory.

Rare mint condition un-circulated 2006 Ulster Bank Limited Edition GBP legal tender commemorative George Best five pound note. Although the "George Best" Five Pound note is a regional novelty, it is considered to be legal tender in the United Kingdom.

Everybody has heard of George Best, a lot of kids love football, it’s relevant, it means something to people. Career criminal Kenneth Lennon was running a scam selling fake Ulster Bank fivers — made to commemorate the tragic Manchester United star — from his south Armagh home.

One woman said: I'm getting them for my mum and my son and for relatives in Canada and for everybody I can think of. Turning off the personalized advertising setting won’t stop you from seeing Etsy ads, but it may make the ads you see less relevant or more repetitive. In death in his native country the Manchester United and Northern Ireland star has become arguably more revered than he was even in life. Some of the technologies we use are necessary for critical functions like security and site integrity, account authentication, security and privacy preferences, internal site usage and maintenance data, and to make the site work correctly for browsing and transactions. The limited special edition bank notes, brought out by Ulster Bank on the first anniversary of Best’s death, were launched at a special ceremony in which George’s sister Barbara McNarry was given the first in a million-note run and her father Dickie was given the final note, bearing the serial number 1000000.Among the brand names he was ripping off were Virgin, Universal, Warner Bros, 20th Century Fox, Walt Disney, Dolce and Gabbanna, Armani and Lacoste.