Selling old Barclays shares

SG27

My girlfriends nan has some old Barclays shares which she got given when her building society (Barclays?) became a bank. She has about £1000 worth. How would she go about selling them? I think she would have the old certificates somewhere but I'm not sure if they have been lost or thrown away! Would she still be able to sell them without the certificates?

Thanks for any help

Annisele

If she's lost the certificates, she'll need to get in touch with the registrar. Contact details on this page (right hand side).

She can sell them through any stockbroker (including Barclays Stockbrokers).

SG27

Annisele wrote: »

If she's lost the certificates, she'll need to get in touch with the registrar. Contact details on this page (right hand side).

She can sell them through any stockbroker (including Barclays Stockbrokers).

That's a great help thanks!

Chorlie

A few years back Barclays did a share split and issued new shares, I think they split from £1 shares to 25p shares.

She would of received 4 times of many new 25p shares, so if you do find the Certs. Make sure they are the new ones as the old ones are worthless and you'll have to get them re-issues.

But if she phones up the Registars they can tell her if she owns any, how many and how to go about getting replacements (plus the cost).

You may also consider if this is the best time to sell them since Barclays shares have dropped from over £7 a few years back to under £2 now....

SG27

Chorlie wrote: »

A few years back Barclays did a share split and issued new shares, I think they split from £1 shares to 25p shares.

She would of received 4 times of many new 25p shares, so if you do find the Certs. Make sure they are the new ones as the old ones are worthless and you'll have to get them re-issues.

But if she phones up the Registars they can tell her if she owns any, how many and how to go about getting replacements (plus the cost).

You may also consider if this is the best time to sell them since Barclays shares have dropped from over £7 a few years back to under £2 now....

The plan is to sell now before they fall any further the banks have not been doing very well lately and at the current value the money would come in very handy at the moment.
Thanks for your help.