Scottish Money..is it legal in England

Mr_Warren_2

I once tried to get some cash (including Scottish notes) changed in a French bank. They had to get their books out to check the description etc. Rather funny I thought.
Am in Newcastle on Tyne and never had any problem using Scottish notes this side of the border.

trisontana

Regarding that point about the Euro raised by "budgetflyer". Different countries do not produce different designed notes, they are all exactly the same. It's only the coins. Even then the overall look is the same. They all have their value prominently displayed, with just fairly small design differences to distinguish them.

Gingham_Ribbon

islandannie wrote:

Many thanks for a a post which should leave people in no doubt as to the legal staus of the Scottish pound

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Worthless.

Just as worthless as a cheque or a £50? :rolleyes:

Goodness, aren't people getting heated over so very little?

I have never had trouble spending my money, whether it says English or Scottish on it.

ginger_nuts

where's Nelly ,we need him to sort this out .

almacmil

ginger_nuts wrote:

where's Nelly ,we need him to sort this out .

Yeah! You can bet ,as a plasterer, Nelly has had more notes pass through his hands than through the Bank of England!

"LoadsaMoney!!"

Hellfire

suffolkb wrote:

I once had a meal in an Italian restaurant in London.They wouldn`t accept a Bank of Scotland cheque as `the Scottish pound wasn`t the same value as the English pound`.Too much trouble to argue so I went to the cash machine.

i live in london and often eat out. i have to say that most managers/staff are foreigners from eastern europe etc. who have not been here for a great length of time and are not familiar with the fact that scotland has a diifferent banknote design. the staff quoted in the above post obviously thought it was something like the Irish pound, which is a foreign currency.

of course all retail staff need to be properly trained or at least have the sense to double check before refusing this tender. i have never had any problems in using scottish notes so far.

Hellfire

budgetflyer wrote:

You have the same problem with the Euro. Each country producing its own notes and coins. Recognising the different designs must be difficult for shop keepers.
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Although each eu country prints its own euros, the design is exactly the same for each denomination note. You have to read the small print on it to see the country of issue. If you have travelled to europe and had euros with you, you would not have seen different designs for same value notes.

ginger_nuts

Hellfire wrote:

the staff quoted in the above post obviously thought it was something like the Irish pound, which is a foreign currency.

The Irish Republic uses the EURO ,Northern Ireland uses the pound which is as legal or illlegal the Scottish pound .

Hellfire

ginger_nuts wrote:

The Irish Republic uses the EURO ,Northern Ireland uses the pound which is as legal or illlegal the Scottish pound .

yes, i know that, and all of us here know that. but i was talking of foreign workers who may not know that.

one of the waiters who was serving me the other days had been in the uk for 4 weeks, and i believe that knowing the various non-english banknotes would not have been very high in his priorities.

Quasar

I am stunned by this ongoing childish bickering between England and Scotland. I think each side is as bad as the other.

Shouldn't such old-hat rivalries have been buried ages ago? How long have England and Scotland been a United Kingdom (I use the word united very loosely here)? Oh yes, since the death of QEI, in the sixteenth century.

Much is being made over here about Britain being such a civilised country, the would-be leader of Europe, but the fact is that until your various bits and pieces start respecting one another, you will remain a divided country - hardly a shiny example to the rest of us.

And don't start me on the distasteful jingoism with regard to Germany... but that's a different story altogether.