Legal tender?....perhaps....

[MoonRocker]

http://www.bournemout...Scottish_note/?ref=mr
But many places won't take Scottish notes because they are a right pain in the proverbial. Surely we shouldn't have more than one issuer of notes.

[ummmm]

Why are they a pain in the proverbial?

[vodkancoke]

If they were handed a sack of them i bet they would take them.

It has "sterling" written on the note so why are they not legal?

[tinkerbell23]

Annoys me.

A fiver is a fiver.

I had to go to the bank in bristol cos they wouldnt accept my scottish notes in a shop.

[MoonRocker]

They are legal tender but that doesn't mean they have to be accepted.

[sandyRoe]

If you're in the business of selling stuff or providing a service refusing money isn't a good idea

[ABerrant]

http://www.theanswerb...5.html#answer-5197138

[THECORBYLOON]

Notes issued by the Scots banks are not legal tender in Scotland let alone England. The only legal notes were Bank of England notes under £5 so once the BoE one-pound note went, there were no legal tender notes in Scotland.

[Quizmonster]

It's a bit naughty, really, given that the very plan to create a Bank of England was proposed by William Paterson - a Scotsman - in 1691!

[MoonRocker]

yes sandy, in theory, but that isn't what happens, there are a lot of shops that won't accept £50 notes, let alone Scottish notes

[spudqueen]

But we do have one issuer of notes - the Bank of England. I think you'll find many places in England and Wales where Scottish, Northern Ireland, Isle of Man, Jersey and Guernsey notes are not accepted, and I can't believe that this couple are 'shocked', it must have happened to them before. One problem for businesses is that unless you are familiar with all the above notes (and there are more than one issuer of both Scottish and Northern Irish notes) is that you may very easily be given forgeries. Would YOU recognise a genuine Clydesdale bank £20 for instance?

[boxtops]

I'm amazed that this couple were shocked, it's fairly common knowledge that Scottish notes aren't welcomed in England. What does annoy me is inconsistency - I presented one in our local WHSmith and it was refused, the next day OH went in there and they took it. A case for staff training, I think!

[jackthehat]

The problem is not with the notes, it's with the training of the staff accepting them.

[boxtops]

http://www.moneysavin...es-arent-legal-tender