Scottish Money..is it legal in England

GlennTheBaker

student100 wrote:

We love Scotland. The Chancellor is Scottish...

Yes, despite Gordon Brown being Scottish, I love Scotland.

GlennTheBaker

As I'm half-Irish, I love Ireland too.

C_Ronaldo

as far as im aware scottish money is legal tender, there are so many people who dont want a scottish £10 note,

pbright

I tried to use my scottish notes to pay for a hilton hotel bill in Paris 2nights ago. The manager said my money was NOT sterling and he could not accept it....the scally. I wish i shower him it was sterling and told him it was illegal not to except it. I had to put it on my credit card which i did not want to do :-( Maybe there is away they could make the engish and scottish notes look more similar whilst maintaining there own identities??

trisontana

pbright wrote:

I tried to use my scottish notes to pay for a hilton hotel bill in Paris 2nights ago. The manager said my money was NOT sterling and he could not accept it....the scally. I wish i shower him it was sterling and told him it was illegal not to except it. I had to put it on my credit card which i did not want to do :-( Maybe there is away they could make the engish and scottish notes look more similar whilst maintaining there own identities??

Would he have taken any British currency? I would have thought that, being in Paris, only Euros would have been acceptable.

rdwarr

From the Hilton website:

Currencies
AUSTRALIAN DOLLAR, BRITISH POUND, DANISH KRONE, EURO, JAPANESE YEN, NORWEGIAN KRONE, SINGAPORE DOLLARS, SWEDISH KRONA, SWISS FRANC, US DOLLAR, AUSTRALIAN DOLLAR, BRITISH POUND, DANISH KRONE, EURO, JAPANESE YEN, NORWEGIAN KRONE, SINGAPORE DOLLARS, SWEDISH KRONA, SWISS FRANC, US DOLLAR

(no idea why they're listed twice)

I can only assume that by "British Pound" they mean the currency backed by the Bank of England.

I'm just amazed that, despite being told many times on this thread, people refuse to accept that Scottish "money" isn't legal tender!

brodev

GlennTheBaker wrote:

Yes, despite Gordon Brown being Scottish, I love Scotland.

I quite like England

islandannie

Scottish money is issued by the guarantee of the Bank of England gold holdings.

I E a scottish pound is a promisary note which quite simply offers you the guarantee that the Bank of England will promise to pay the bearer of a Scottish pound note the same value as --- an English pound note.

Try spending your linen bank notes in places such as Thailand ,India,Samoa,Australia,China, chile,Argentina,Mexico, etc,etc,etc.

And they will say noooooooooo noooooooooooo we only want English money.

If any of you Scots can tell me how much any of the Scottish clearing banks hold in Bullion reserves then you can poo poo the fact that Scottish money is only of value because of the power of the Bank of England.

elantan

mmm i remember once going into a local shop in wales and handing over a £1 Scottish note and getting change of a fiver ...oh happy days...not that i want to cast aspersions but i think maybe he liked the scottish ..lol

islandannie

elantan wrote:

mmm i remember once going into a local shop in wales and handing over a £1 Scottish note and getting change of a fiver ...oh happy days...not that i want to cast aspersions but i think maybe he liked the scottish ..lol

AHH but can you be sure that that shop was just for "LOCAL PEOPLE"

And they made a blunder?