Does Wales have it's own banknotes?

[Invictas]

I was watching "Antiques Road Trip" this afternoon,Mark Stacey paid for something,and the camera zoomed in on the notes he used.They were nothing like I have ever seen in the UK.
I wonder if it was very bad editing,and they were using a clip from Northern Ireland where the series was recently.
That is IF NI has it's own banknotes.
Mmm more confusing by the minute!

[DTCwordfan]

NI does. May be they were Plaid Cymru illicit notes if it was filmed in Wales....

[Invictas]

Thanks DTcrosswordfan,
I think it was a bit of film taken in NI(at another time),and the daft production team didn't realise the difference!

[DTCwordfan]

probably.......after all they were there last week - however its not a bad concept of the two 'experts' going head to head.

[redman41]

10 Ewes = 1 Ram = £1 Sterling
1 Ewe =10p

[ummmm]

Lol Red...

[DTCwordfan]

and they are legal tender over here. It used to be back in the era of Zog, i.e. pre-decimalisation that English banks would charge 19sh and 6d on the pound for a Scottish note. That would be one way for the UK Treasury to get back some of the money we taxpayers had to support those Scottish banks with.

[Invictas]

DTcrosswordfan
No,I really like the idea of this programme.The banknote thingy just stumped me.

[DTCwordfan]

my goodness only ten p to experience a welsh ewe, no wonder Welsh pimps (sorry farmers) are poor. And just a pound for a ram..... that will get the pervs flocking to the Land of the Fathers.

[bednobs]

wales does not have it's own currency, for the simple fact it's not a country in its own right

[starone]

Perhaps it was monopoly money or stage money.

[ABerrant]

Wales not a country in it's own right? I think a perusal of the broad ranging definition of 'country' is in order.

The payment was made by Charlie using Scottish banknotes and the shot is plainly within the same shop as the rest of the scenes.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/...2_Episode_9/?t=25m15s

[horseshoes]

In some places in Wales where there is a lot of tourism it would be usual to accept Irish money and Isle of Man money. Holyhead and Llandudno were two such places, and I know that SOME shops would take it in Bangor too. I know too that you can spend Euros in some places in Holyhead - so many Irish people pass through from the ferries that it makes sense. I saw that clip and I thought that it was a Euro note.

[DTCwordfan]

I thought it was a Euro note too.....seems Scottish - should have been discounted if the shopkeeper was to accept it

[ABerrant]

On closer inspection the three notes are (from top to bottom)
£10 Bank of Scotland
£20 Bank of Scotland
£50 Bank of England

The shopkeeper was under no obligation to accept the Scottish banknotes but there is no automatic revaluation of the notes either.

An explanation in regard of 'legal tender' and British banknotes can be viewed in this previous post...

http://www.theanswerb...e/Question940005.html

[Buenchico]

Quote:
"There are no Welsh banknotes in circulation; Bank of England notes are used throughout Wales. The last Welsh banknotes were withdrawn in 1908 upon the closure of the last Welsh bank, the North and South Wales Bank. An attempt was made in 1969 by a Welsh banker to revive Welsh banknotes, but the venture was short-lived and the notes did not enter general circulation, surviving today only as a collectors' curiosity".

Source:
http://en.wikipedia.o..._pound_sterling#Wales
(Scroll down for information about NI banknotes)

Chris

[ABerrant]

http://en.wikipedia.o...sury_of_Wales_Limited

[waterboatman]

The bank notes were from Northern Ireland, they are legal tender in the rest of the UK.

[mike11111]

NI has its own banknotes. Not so many years ago a friend came into the club with an NI fiver which was plastic rather than paper. he used it as a bookmark.

Without wishing to cause any offence from my friends in Wales, the previous poster is correct when he says that Wales is not a country in its own right. Wales was incorporated into England in 1536 under Henry VIII and despite some concessions to devolution the status quo remains the same, so that any law passed at Westminster applies equally to Wales as it does to England, though not necessarily to Scotland or NI. It is partly for this reason that Welsh is not recognised as a distinct language within the EU, requiring translation.

[ABerrant]

Wales was not incorporated into England - it became a Dominion of the English monarchy. If Wales was not a separate entity to England the laws of the land would not be stated as applicable to "England and Wales" as they do.

Dominions of the British monarchy have at various times included Canada, Australia, New Zealand, etc., etc. Are they also not countries?

[SueMoneyRowley]

They used a close up of Irish currency in one of the programmes where they started of in Ireand, and at the time were supposed to have crossed to England - poor editing!!!!