In message , at 19:09:22 on
Mon, 19 Mar 2012, Peter Masson remarked:
My debit card has a hologram on the back with an amount on it which
the bank will honour, funds or no.

That's from the time when debit cards doubled as cheque guarantee cards
- before the cheque guarantee scheme was abolished.

And the amount was relevant to the cheque guarantee, not its use as
debit card.
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Roland Perry