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®i©ardo

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Tim Roll-Pickering wrote:
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I'm glad you said that. I've always made the point when accepting Scottish
banknotes that they are not legal tender, often to be met with a gobfull
of abuse from know-all Scots. I keep meaning to get in a stock of sterling
notes from Northern Ireland, so if a note is required in change I can give
them, say, a a £5 or £10 sterling note issued by the Bank of Ireland or
the First Trust Bank to see whether that would improve their humour.

I don't know where the idea comes from that Scottish notes are legal
tender because the bear the "sterling" because it simply isn't true - even
in Scotland!

That's actually happened, where one person pays in Scottish money and gets
change back in same denominatio.

If banks accept Scottish notes for deposit, is it really such a problem for
retailers to accept them from the general public, provided that they are not
the 1-pound notes?

No it isn't, but unfortunately there have been a lot of of forgeries of
Scottish notes in this part of the world - the West Country - and, given
the general unfamiliarity with them, many traders err on the side of
caution.

Even testing one of these notes under a scanner can start a diatribe
from the person tendering it, however, as per a letter in the Bristol
Evening Post just a week or two ago. Unfortunately only the responses
remain:

http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/displ...=sidebarsearch

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