Money?

[laid back in the sun]

i think i got a colin montgomery one a couple of years ago spent it on fags before i realised it was worth a bit tho

[glasto_freak]

No, Scottish notes are not legal tender, like many of you have said.

But, the guy that said that £200 in 2p coins is legal tender, but not nessasarly accepted is actually wrong, all denominations have a limit to which the coins can be used, i think that for 2p it is about £20, but i'm not totally sure

[LusciousLucy]

Quite from that linky...

Are Scottish & Northern Irish notes legal tender?

In short ‘No’ these notes are not legal tender; only Bank of England notes are legal tender but only in England and Wales.

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.

Also, I saw a few places in Exeter the other day that stated they were not taking them as there had been a spate of forgeries.

I would suggest you try to sort out the regular English notes somehow.

[saybut]

They have to accept them really.. the best thing is to order what you want, beers/food etc, wait for it to arrive and hand over the scottish/irish note, if they have an issue with it tell them that's their problem, you have the goods, and legal money so if they don't want to charge you so be it!

[tarff26]

I'll be sorting out English notes just to be on the safe side

we can shout all day to a disinterested ostrich burger vendor about legal tender and 1707 and william wallace but at the end of the day he doesn't have to take the Scottish note and I go away hungry

in truth i can understand why some english folk would be hesitant to accept Scottish notes. They have no idea if it's real or not because they never see them, so even though it says 'Sterling' on it who cares? better safe than sorry and all that......My mate is from N.I and he came back from home once with these odd plastic fivers. Can you imagine the guy at the Thali tent accepting one of those?