I used to get sent one at Christmas when I was a kid by my Grandad who lives in Scotland, but I don't remember now what we did with them. Can you put them in the bank but not spend them or something? Maybe that's what happened. I haven't seen once since then.
I think if you take one into a bank they'll swap it for a legal note, you might not be able to put a deposit in containing Scottish money although don't quote me on that one.
I decided not to vote because, being a silly uneducated American, I had no idea that there were Scottish notes, etc etc... but given that we accept Canadian "pennies" and "dimes" in America, I probably would have have figured them for something I would accept... but I would have balked at "legal tender" because I tend to sense the trick question in terms like that. Money is money though... and I'd say it's "valid money" in a way that paying in dozens of eggs or "monopoly $10s" wouldn't be :/
"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."
So I think that in Great Depression times or during the war dozens of eggs would count more as "money" or "legal tender" than any currency in paper notes or metal coins. ;)
Bizarrely Scottish notes aren't legal tender in Scotland either, only coins are legal tender. Some shops will accept Scottish bank notes but most wouldn't.
I went on the Bank of England Museum tour last year with the Sherlock Holmes Society and we got given a talk about the history of the bank. They talked about how it came about that we had one single bank note, I think it was interesting but the guy who was giving the talk had one of those voices that send you to sleep.
I answered no, but it is kind of logical to me. So,I felt that it was a pointless argument. If there's different currency for Scotland, then it means you can't use it anywhere else. You know, you can't use French money in UK and that's that. Why should Scottish money be any different, even if it is *United* Kingdom? (And they want to be separate country anyway, so there. :P)
Oh, but. You should be able to change it to UK pounds, shouldn't you? So, what is the exchange rate for Scottish pound? Maybe you could have gotten more money out of your shopping? :P
Scottish bank notes aren't legal tender in Scotland either. The Royal Bank of Scotland is allowed to print it's own money under the Currency and Bank Notes Act 1954, and I think it originally dates back to when all banks were allowed to print their own currency.
Why, why is it always Tescos? I am still not quite recovered from the caterpillar incident. If the clerk in the store had worked there for 11 years I doubt they have much authority on what bank notes are legal or not. I once saw a barman being handed a screwed up £5 - only for them to find out when they were cashing up that the 5 was printed on normal paper and was almost square! The barman was sacked the next week.
Wikipedia is rarely, if ever, wrong. Go in today, settle it and then let it go. All the crew will feel small for being wrong anyways. :)
Ha! The caterpillar incident! I can still remember the expression on that guy's face xDxD!
I don't think Tesco's train their staff particularly well, I reckon it's a conveyor belt, one gets off and another one gets on and the uniform is sprayed onto with the mantra "you are there to make it difficult for customers."
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So I think that in Great Depression times or during the war dozens of eggs would count more as "money" or "legal tender" than any currency in paper notes or metal coins. ;)
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I went on the Bank of England Museum tour last year with the Sherlock Holmes Society and we got given a talk about the history of the bank. They talked about how it came about that we had one single bank note, I think it was interesting but the guy who was giving the talk had one of those voices that send you to sleep.
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If the clerk in the store had worked there for 11 years I doubt they have much authority on what bank notes are legal or not. I once saw a barman being handed a screwed up £5 - only for them to find out when they were cashing up that the 5 was printed on normal paper and was almost square! The barman was sacked the next week.
Wikipedia is rarely, if ever, wrong. Go in today, settle it and then let it go. All the crew will feel small for being wrong anyways. :)
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I don't think Tesco's train their staff particularly well, I reckon it's a conveyor belt, one gets off and another one gets on and the uniform is sprayed onto with the mantra "you are there to make it difficult for customers."
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