Scottish ten pound note

No. And they aren't legal tender in Scotland either.

Will the retailer now have a problem banking it?

No - it may be more difficult for retailers to spot a fake - but it shouldn't really cause any problems. In the past we used to worry about taking Scottish notes South, but all the motorway service stations on the main routes seem quite prepared to take them now.

I once bought some fast food in Covent Garden. The retailer baulked at my Scottish 20, but when she recognised I wasn't going to offer any alternative means of payment and intended walking away it suddenly became acceptable.

In the last couple of years I have bought both a caravan and a car in England and on both occasions I asked the bank for English notes however. For the caravan I decided it was safer, but for the car the seller specifically asked.

Neb

No. The bank will take it no problem.

Both legal and retailer is legally bound! Ignorance is not an excuse!

yes scottish notes are legal tender in england. scotland not a foreign country it s part of the uk. if you go to scotland with englsih notes they happily accept them. scottish notes are issued by Royal bank of scotland, clydesdale and bank of scotland.

notes in northern ireland are issued by bank of northern ireland and are legal tender on the mainland. as long as it says pound sterling then its legal tender no matter where they are issued within the u.k. also if you also explain you are legally bound to take it. as spadger wrote. if they also if they had anti fraud pen to check notes it would save you embarresment

if you think any notes are suspicous you can get them checked by your banks branch.

its lack of education and ignorance within retailers to educate their staff of the legal tenders of the u.k. i live scotland but from originally from north of england, when i go back home to visit family. when i go into shops to buy something i have wod of scottish £10's £20's and give the scottish notes to the cashier look gormless and ask me if it is legal tender, so i say to them read the £10 note and does it say pound sterling. then i say to them you've just answered your own question.

it anoys the hell out of me when i am shopping in the north of england. cause when you are in the que and cashier says "is this legal or we cant accept that" as it causes embarresment as other shoppers look at you if you are a dodge geezer.

here i've found an article on this

They are legal currency, but not legal tender.

In fact in Scotland, no notes, whether, Scottish or even Bank of England, are "Legal Tender".

Regards, Ian

What's the difference?

(Thanks to all for the input btw).

Scottish bank notes are not legal tender.

Scottish bank notes are not legal tender in England or Scotland.

Practically everything you wrote was wrong.

No note have been legal tender in Scotland since the BoE £1 note was withdrawn.

Reading around on this I found a claim by "someone in a forum" that the new Citizenship course says that all UK shops must accept them. So they have not been checking their facts.

People often seem to misinterpret the phrase "Legal Tender" as meaning that a shop must accept certain banknotes as payment for something.

"Legal Tender" doesn't mean that at all. You can't force a shop to accept anything in payment if they don't want it. A shop is not under any obligation to sell anything, and at the end of the day they can just say they don't want to go through with the sale if they're not happy with the form of payment being offered.

Chris

True. Offering legal tender is simply a valid defence if payment for a debt has been refused.

At 23:47:50 on 14/10/2007, John Burke delighted uk.finance by announcing:

The retailer can choose not to accept it in payment.

(And, in terms of legal tender, they are not legal tender.)

However, I recall during the Wilson era my mother visiting England and trying to pay in Scottish banknotes. The trader asked if they were real and whether they were worth the same as English notes.

"Yes, they're worth the same," she said, "We had to devalue them at the same time you devalued yours!"

Toom

Ho, ho, ho.

Just to put the record straight:

No, that is completely wrong I'm afraid.

quite.