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| vincentnl 2005-02-07, 4:17 am |
| Here is probably not the right place for this but a friend of mine brought to my attention the differences between a British pound coin and a Gibralter pound coin and explained to me that the Gibraltese pound coin was illegal currency here in the UK.
Both coins have he British monarchy Queens head on them and both are happily accepted by coin machines.
Where can I find a web page that tells me what is legal and what is illegal in terms of worldwide currency?
I did do a brief internet search for this. | |
| bearing 2005-03-10, 6:50 am |
| This might be of interest to you vincentnl
Legal tender in England and Wales
Bank of England notes are the only banknotes that are legal tender in England and Wales. United Kingdom coinage is legal tender, but not in unlimited amounts for coins below £1.
Scottish and Northern Ireland banknotes, and Jersey, Guernsey, Manx and Gibraltar coinage and banknotes are not legal tender in England and Wales. However, they are not illegal under English law and creditors and traders may accept them if they so choose.
Legal tender in Scotland
A less restrictive definition of legal tender exists in Scotland. Scottish banks retain their historic right to issue their own banknotes, but no banknotes are legal tender in Scotland (not even Scottish notes).
Scottish case law establishes that a creditor cannot refuse any reasonable offer to settle a debt - thus, in Scotland an offer to pay a debt in any form of sterling, or even foreign currency, cannot unreasonably be refused merely on the technicality of settlement not being offered in legal tender. | |
| vincentnl 2005-03-11, 4:32 am |
| Is there any websites dedicated to or with something to say related to what is legal tender in the UK?
I am guessing that you received your information whilst either visiting a bank or bumping into a library for one thng or another.
That stuff of currency being legal in one country and not another is commonplace around the world after all now, British sterling is no longer legal tender in Ireland where they now use Euro's.
Vincent. | |
| MistyRing 2005-04-02, 6:52 am |
| British currency, if there is such a thing, was never legal tender in Ireland (at least not since 1911) - mainly on account of it being a different country. | |
| vincentnl 2005-04-07, 3:43 am |
| What about Northern Ireland? | |
| MistyRing 2005-04-09, 12:43 pm |
| They only use Euros in ROI. NI uses sterling. | |
| enforcer 2005-04-20, 12:33 pm |
| MistyRing and Bearing, haven't seen you guys about recently. So this is where you are hiding, in the porn section. Might have guessed. | |
| MistyRing 2005-04-21, 5:41 pm |
| This is porn??? Where's the hard core!!?
How you doing enforcer? | |
| enforcer 2005-04-21, 6:31 pm |
| Fine and dandy mate.
However miss the old times when the GD forum was buzzing.
some of us are over at icertify.net but even that's quiet. Don't know where most of the old gang have gone.  | |
| vincentnl 2005-04-29, 3:44 am |
| Icertify is too strict
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pretty slow
so I quit that.
ain't going back there.
My profile still remains there though, so does the option to post. | |
| enforcer 2005-04-29, 6:37 am |
| quote:
Originally posted by vincentnl
Icertify is too strict
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pretty slow
What is strict about it? | |
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| coming back at that subject of english pounds...why dont the angles/wales/n/s ireland/scotland just join the e.u and use euro dollars?........the brits don't seem to like the label "europeans" but geographically they are..it seems to be a dirty word or something...how about scandinavian(see history)
uh yeah ..o.k next? |
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