Weird marking on £20 note. What is it?

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Tried googling and can't find any info. It's a handshake on the back above the serial number. Does anyone know TIA

Pic?

Here you go

Looks like a Masonic (Freemason) handshake. No idea why it would be on £20 though!

I find this intriguing, so place marking to see if anyone else has had one!

Weird hoping it might be worth more than £20

That's very odd. Are you going to ask at a bank, OP?

When I used to do banking for a shop it was surprisingly often notes passed through with random stamps on them

What's the weird backwards £ on it?

I suspect this is a fake.

I'd assume it's a dealer mark. When I lived in an area with a high drug problem almost every note had various little stamps or writing on them. Dealers used to get robbed a lot. If they found someone with a LOT of cash on them, all with dealer marks, they'd determine that was who robbed them and they'd get a beating or worse.

It was a way of marking their money to trace it as they'd never go to the police about being robbed.

What's the weird backwards £ on it?
Ignore me.. it's on mine too

It's the wrong way round. Clearly a pound sign back to front. Can you see from the other side?

Worriedmum They all have that on?!

*What's the weird backwards £ on it?

I suspect this is a fake.*

OP, I don’t think it means anything. It’s just a stamp someone was playing around with, no reason to think it’s sinister, meaningful, or Masonic.

Ooh interesting! The dealer answer above is scary but quite believable.

I saw something about certain groups tracking Euros to see where they ended up, maybe a group like the Freemasons is doing something similar and when a member finds a note with a stamp on it they log it and track it?

Just a theory, not any evidence for it!

People do mark notes, write in them and all sorts.

Businesses that deal with a lot of cash often mark notes, whether that's with pen or stamps, it's most likely something totally innocent, just marked money coming back into circulation.

DH is a Mason, says it's not a masonic handshake. Mason's aren't even a smidge as exciting as media would have you think.

DH is a Mason Not sure I’d be telling people that as keenly as you are

On an anonymous site Georgie?

Anonymous or not, I think masons are weirdos. ¯\(ツ)/¯

Haha no I wouldn’t tell anyone! (I wouldn’t even be married to one but that’s a separate issue)

Masons aren’t that mysterious. The Freemasons women’s group were at the Freshers fair at my university handing out flyers!

Have you Googled it?

Jesus ignore me 😂😂😂

From the photo that looks hand drawn rather than stamped though, probably just an innocent doodle?