I have just been down to the RBOS (staff were fantastic and very helpful) and got the £100-00 note and 5 x £1-00 notes as well so I am ready for the little adventure.
Tommorow will see me land in Gatwick at 10-25pm and Wednesday will be the first day that I start to try to use the notes. There is obviously a good chance that it may very well be the first shop that changes the currency and so I shall stop blogging but I don’t personally think that will be the case.
Anyway till next time
Dave
scottishcurrency
As I’ll be moving to Scotland soon, this is something I’ll be taking a keener interest in from now on!
I think the only solution to this would be to have a set of standard design Pounds Sterling banknotes for the UK, issued by all the banks that issue banknotes in the UK. The recognition and trust problem would then be lessened.
The fact is that although Scottish banknotes are not legal tender in England (they’re not even legal tender in Scotland – only coins are!) they are legal currency throughout the UK (if it says Pounds Sterling on it you should, in theory, be able to spend it anywhere). It is purely the decision of retailers (or, more usually, their employees) whether to accept them or not.
This is a facinating subject – for more debate and comment, take a look at http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=938509&highlight=scottish+currency
By: Paul Williams on June 30, 2008
at 2:17 pm
It’s interesting, as some of the latest Clydesdale bank notes have been printed on what can only be described as a Euro template. Very spooky. Maybe Alex Salmon has something planned that we don’t know about!!!!
By: Bob on July 3, 2008
at 12:01 am