Have bank notes been changed?

[Cycleops]

And a lot of folk don't know that no English banknote is legal tender in Scotland (but we're smart enough not to make the same fuss...)

How about this one:

 

[mjr]

And a lot of folk don't know that no English banknote is legal tender in Scotland (but we're smart enough not to make the same fuss...)

A legal tender is what you attach to the back of a steam locomotive powered by burning contracts.

 

[gavroche]

I prefer the Welsh £5 note. It is very colourful with the Welsh Dragon on it.

 

[Cycleops]

Better than the Scottish dragon I guess.

 

[classic33]

I prefer the Welsh £5 note. It is very colourful with the Welsh Dragon on it.

No Dragon on the five or ten pound notes.

 

[classic33]

A legal tender is what you attach to the back of a steam locomotive powered by burning contracts.

In front or behind(Back or front)?

 

[DRHysted]

Where 'recently' was 13th September 2016 for the £5 and 14th September 2017 for the £10!

That’s recent isn’t it?

 

[winjim]

No Dragon on the five or ten pound notes.
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Apart from that one there?

 

[furball]

Clydesdale Bank, Royal Bank of Scotland and the Bank of Scotland all produce their own notes and they are all different so at some point you will probably come across the others.

 

[ColinJ]

That’s recent isn’t it?

It is very recent on a geological timescale, but it isn't very recent on a nipping-down-to-the-shops timescale!

 

[PaulSB]

so your still allowed to use them if your in england and not scotland. As i said why did i get a scottish 5 note when i'm in England? Also how is it worth more?

It’s not unusual for younger people not to have seen a Scottish bank note, especially in the south of England. The further north you go the more likely you are to see them.

I think it’s very unusual to be given a Scottish bank note in change.

Until I read this thread I had no idea there are Welsh bank notes. I’ve lived all my 63 years in England - though I have been to Wales!!

 

[PaulSB]

You havent because there aren't.

Never believe what you read on the internet....... especially CycleChat

 

[mjr]

[QUOTE 5204111, member: 259"]Yet for three glorious(?) years...

Worth a lot more than five quid nowadays as well.[/QUOTE]
And four years in the 1800s.

 

[byegad]

They're gonna do a special edition for Scots abroad in England which says "Aye it bloody well is legal tender" on it.

Not for much longer, following Brexit I expect to see Scotiaexit hard on its heals.
On a more serious note*.
I always understood the status of Scots notes in the rest of the UK was that they could be refused as tender. Certainly a policeman friend of mine routinely refuses them in change.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

I always understood the status of Scots notes in the rest of the UK was that they could be refused as tender. Certainly a policeman friend of mine routinely refuses them in change.

As has been stated up thread, the banknotes produced by issuing banks of Northern Ireland, Scotland, and England are legal currency throughout the UK and there is no business reason not to accept them in a transaction. People frequently confuse legal tender with legal currency.


Here's a reminder:

“The term legal tender does not in itself govern the acceptability of banknotes in transactions. Whether or not notes have legal tender status, their acceptability as a means of payment is essentially a matter for agreement between the parties involved. Legal tender has a very narrow technical meaning in relation to the settlement of debt. If a debtor pays in legal tender the exact amount he owes under the terms of a contract, he has good defence in law if he is subsequently sued for non-payment of the debt. In ordinary everyday transactions, the term ‘legal tender’ has very little practical application.”
(Ref. www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/about/faqs.htm.)​