Nerdy Note Discussion: Scottish Bank Notes Aren’t Legal Tender...

taz121

MiserlyMartin wrote: »

Good on you. It really winds me up that people in England won't take Scottish notes.

I don't think I can use the 'It says Pounds Sterling' line because not all Scottish notes say Pounds Sterling on them. I know this is true because a Scotsman once showed me one that didn't.

I'm not aware of any Scottish note issued by the 3 banks not saying STERLING on it unlike BOE notes

SINBAD_2

Hats off to the Co-op in Bermondsey, a not particulary nice area of London that doesn't see many non English notes. They took a dirty Scottish pound note, and various other Scottish notes and a Bank of Ireland fiver dated 1992 without comment, all over the last few weeks. Impressed!

rodins

I can see that this is quite an old topic but I'd just like to say that I have spent plenty of Scottish and Northern Irish notes in pubs, shops, restaurants, petrol stations in Wales and have never really had a problem.

The only times it's been queried is when a barmaid went to ask the manager (she was about 17 and lived in Caerphilly and they don't get out much around there) and a young Asian fellow in Sainsburys ran a note checking pen over a Scottish fiver (don't think he really knew what to do with it!).

Personally, I am a manager in a store (no names) and I have personally ensured that there are posters of Scottish and Northern Irish notes up on the wall of the cash office for all staff to see, and my staff never refuse Scottish or Northern Irish notes, in fact I sometimes put them in their till floats at the start of their shift and they enjoy trying to hand them out as change to unsuspecting customers!!

willie19a

dingbatdave wrote: »

It would be wonderful if the Banks stopped advertising on their notes- stopped costly printing of so many different notes and stick with the legal tender that is the Bank of England notes.
Oh! get over the I'm a Scot, a Welshman and Irishman nonsence, who actually cares what is printed in our pocket, as long as it remains, acceptable and STERLING.

Well why dont the english see this as legal tender, as far as im concerned, its not the irish, scots or the welsh that has a problem with the currency, its the english. And as for calling it the bank of england, why not call it the bank of britain if it is that bothered about the tender, that way its not name after one country then maybe every1 would use it! If there worried about the effects it would have renaiming it, they could do the easy thing and accept irish scottish and welsh notes as legal tender and define it as legal tender so every one knew, it would stop all the rubbish we get these days. How would england people like it if we all stopped accepting there notes because they werent printed in scotland or ireland, wales. they would be p*ssed off just like we all are, when we are sat at a service station 20 miles into england from scotland and they dont accept scottish notes and if you used your card to pay for the goods, the exact same amount comes out as you have in your pocket, it makes no sense.