Scottish ten pound note

"Rob S" wrote

Whenever buying anything from you, I'd be sure to just scribble "10 pounds sterling" on a blank piece of paper, then of course you'd have to accept it... :-)

In Ireland a few years ago I hired a car. I asked if I could pay the deposit using UK pounds instead of irish pounds. Yes, that was fine, I would pay the same number of UK pounds. However, a bit fo questioning revealed that my deposit would be returned as the same number of Irish pounds.

Robert

As an aside: In a test case (in Scotland) the judge ruled that although notes are not legal tender the debtee (?) still cannot refuse them as they are "commonly called money"

At 18:27:40 on 15/10/2007, Rob. delighted uk.finance by announcing:

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I don't think that:

"Mr Customer please wait here for 30 minutes whilst I dispatch one of my staff down to the local bank to see if your notes are genuine or not"

is going to be more popular than a simple refusal to accept them.

Your expectation that someone on minimum wage should be instructed in the finer points of all of the 7 (I think) 'foreign' UK bank notes is wholly unrealistic IMHO, and it doesn't surprise me in the least that retailers take the easy option.

tim

Where in England? I went to the A&L ATM in Carlisle to draw out 250. I got

25 Scottish Tenners. At Musselburgh races a bookie put a Northern Ireland 20 in with Scottish notes to pay me. I asked him to exchange the Irish note for a Scottish or English one. He did so reluctantly saying it's worth a Score like any other note. Derek.

There is no reason why shops etc should not accept Scottish and Northern Irish notes but a lot do. Your bank will exchange them no hassle.

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