Scottish banknotes

[Darlo1973]

Legal Tender is a much misunderstood term and doesn't mean what most people think it does

What is legal tender?

Many people are confused about what legal tender means. It’s actually about settling debts rather than how you can pay for things.

www.bankofengland.co.uk

 

[herra soul mob]

bookies will take them

 

[safc9450]

I asked Apple to allow me to pay on their app using Scottish pounds. Didn't even get a reply

Typical English

Guess you asked them in COCKNEY ? Me old cock sparra , should have tried the Kings English.

 

[Cockney Mackem]

Guess you asked them in COCKNEY ? Me old cock sparra , should have tried the Kings English.

You might have a point, I say Apple but I was actually talking to some stairs

 

[kyle's left foot]

As long as the note says 'Sterling' it should be accepted anywhere

 

[PJH]

Small businesses will be more likely not to take them. Issue seems to be is that for some reason (when I worked in retail in England, not sure if its still the case now) Scottish notes needed to be banked separately from English notes. So big companies dealing with a lot of cash will have the time and resources to sort out the few Scottish notes, whereas a small business might not want the hassle.

 

[Darlo1973]

As long as the note says 'Sterling' it should be accepted anywhere

Northern Ireland notes are even harder to get accepted in England than Scottish ones.

 

[kyle's left foot]

Northern Ireland notes are even harder to get accepted in England than Scottish ones.

Yeah but having worked in retail, the advice I always got was as long as it states Sterling it should be accepted

 

[Jon Dough]

Seen Scottish notes abroad get slightly lower exchange rates than sterling,crazy but true.

 

[Darlo1973]

Seen Scottish notes abroad get slightly lower exchange rates than sterling,crazy but true.

This is true. In some places you will also get a lower rates for £5 and £10 notes than twenties or fifties as it is easier for them to shift higher denominations.

 

[cornish mackem]

Try and get hold of some pound notes. Some places give you change from a fiver as they don’t know what they are

 

[PTR]

I'm sure they have to take them don't they? It's legal tender, even if they do look like Monopoly money.

Just fyi, "Legal Tender" means - and only means - The stuff wot you can pay a debt in court with. It has zero to do with any person having to accept them.

 

[cornish mackem]

Small businesses will be more likely not to take them. Issue seems to be is that for some reason (when I worked in retail in England, not sure if its still the case now) Scottish notes needed to be banked separately from English notes. So big companies dealing with a lot of cash will have the time and resources to sort out the few Scottish notes, whereas a small business might not want the hassle.

That note would get used in change first if it was me

 

[Kobayashi]

Northern Ireland notes are even harder to get accepted in England than Scottish ones.

Used to always bring back NI and use them in my local. One barman used to get especially wound up getting them. Always gave them back to me in my change where possible, "take that back to paddyland with ya"

 

[Iballistic George]

Does anyone here who mostly pay with cash take Scottish notes from the cashier if you get one or would you ask to change it for an English note?

I've had a Scottish fiver before and there were some shops which wouldn't accept, so if I get given one I ask to change it. Card and cash user.

Racist

 

[Dadsarmy73]

Metro ticket machines won’t accept them

 

[Mowgli]

Just hoy them in asda self scan.

 

[Iballistic George]

We had around 500 in notes. Won't say Scottish notes coz here they're just called notes. Was in Cyprus and tried to change them. The arsehole twunt tried to give us a worse rate than English coz our notes had Scotland on them. Told him he was a robbing **** and got chased out of the shop. Matt Damon to play me in the movie and TV spin offs please.

 

[Wearside Wanderer II]

I’ll buy them off you for 50% of their value.
Can’t say fairer that that

 

[Boinger]

I wouldn't mind a skip full of them tbf.