Re: FN-FORUM OT scottish

date posted 6th January 2002 15:05

As someone who lived in Scotland for three years, now living on the Isle of
Wight - I thought I'd stick my tuppence worth in.

All Scottish Notes are legal tender/currency in the UK, it is down to the
shopkeeper or retailers discretion as to whether they accept it or not (my
parents/grandparents ran newsagents for 5/35 years in Wales)

it is unwritten though that a Scottish £20 note (due to it's apparent ease
to forge) is not widely accepted by shops outside of Scotland and should
exchanged at banks or building societies.

Scottish £1 notes however are not of legal currency or tender outside of
Scotland - and will not be accepted.

So I think that in principle of the fact that shopkeepers must use their
discretion as to whether to accept a Scottish note, I think that David has
every right to use his discretion not to accept it (although I don't agree
with his decision).

Rgds,

C.

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> Scottish notes aren't actually legal tender in England or Scotland--I
don't
> know about Wales. English notes aren't legal tender in Scotland--only
coins
> are. See http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/legaltender.htm
>
>
> According to the Bank of England, "legal tender is not a means of payment
> that must be accepted by the parties to a transaction, but is, in fact, a
> legally-defined means of payment that should not be refused by a creditor
in
> satisfaction of a debt".
> So Scottish notes, although not legal tender, are legal currency. They
> cannot, legally, be refused by, say, a shopkeeper, for the purchase of an
> item on the basis of "not being legal tender".
>
> I used to run a saddlery shop and know that you really do have to accept
> them as they are commonly accepted as money (not the same as legal tender)
> and tourist authorities tell foreign tourists that they can spend Scottish
> money in England. There's no problem with them in banks so why didn't you
> accept it, we get them all the time? In your change however, you probably
> don't have to take them, but why cause a scene?
>
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> ----- Original Message -----
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> Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2002 3:29 AM
> Subject: FN-FORUM OT scottish
>
>
> > kerr-ist, i always though the welsh had problems over the english having
> > once burnt down every building in wales, but after tonight i award the
Not
> > Quite Getting Over Getting Your Arse Being Kicked (Mel Gibson Movies
> > Nonwithstanding) Award to our scottish friends.
> >
> > i merely declined a scottish fiver (not actually being official legal
> tender
> > in england and wales) in a ye olde pizza shoppe and got some claymore
> > wielding bint giving me the full william wallace. i tried reason (not
> > terribly effective while drunk) which worked slightly less than my
> spaceship
> > made of tinfoil when i was 8 (that at least took off for all of 30
> seconds,
> > not quite enough to achieve orbit but the thought was there).
> >
> > and in the words of samuel pepys, and so to bed.
> >
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