Scottish Money..is it legal in England

elantan

don't know if it was for local people or not ( well obviously not i went in) but was on holiday in wales visiting family and needed a can of ginger sister took me to the "local shop" gave the guy a £1 he gave me change of a fiver ..what do you think?..i thought it was my lucky day..

Contains_Mild_Peril

ingram62 wrote:

Hiya

I work for a Scottish bank in England, and it is legal tender, but you cannot force anybody to except it. ie a small shop owner

I have never had a problem with people excepting it, though a few have queried it.

Hope this helps.


Elaine

That's what I thought too, when it comes to denominations of £5 or more. There are also various souvenir £5 coins which are legal tender but likely to be refused in shops. I have been asked, on presenting a Scottish tenner in multicultural London of all places, if I had an English one intead, and since I did and the seller asked nicely, I didn't mind. There are very few places South of the Border which accept £1 notes, but larger notes from Scottish banks shouldn't be a problem. I'm not aware of it ever being an issue at all until England abolished £1 notes, which afaik, in common with other obsolete currency, ceased to be legal tender in England although £1 notes are still in use in Scotland.

ljhhuk

I have lived in Scotland for 38 years having grown up in Lancashire and there has always been this problem with Scottish notes when travelling to England. They should be accepted everywhere as the banks accept them but some small businesses refuse them out of ignorance - not anti Scottishness!
However, there are bars in Scotland with a notice over the bar saying "English notes accepted here" so a sense of humour prevails. I work in a large department store and we accept all notes in Sterling from Northern Ireland or anywhere else. A banknote is just a note of promise and as such, only has value if the bank is willing to honour it. As all British banks honour all British Sterling banknotes, all it needs is a bit of education for small businesses.