Well in Ireland Im sure they have a problem, considering their currency is the Euro. Northern Ireland (regardless of political preference) is a different country (think North Carolina & South Carolina, 2 separate states), but is part of the UK.
Ive since found this out, BoE notes are only "legal tender" in England and Wales, but not in Scotland and NI. However neither are the NI or Scot notes "legal tender" in their respective territories, but infact have to be backed up pound for pound by BoE notes in a vault in London.
Apologies to anyone offended by what I said above after checking wikipedia.org, which says:
Pound sterling banknotes are issued by
* the Bank of England accepted throughout the UK; * the Bank of Scotland (generally accepted throughout the UK); * the Royal Bank of Scotland (generally accepted throughout the UK); * the Clydesdale Bank (generally accepted throughout the UK); * the Bank of Ireland, First Trust Bank, Northern Bank and Ulster Bank (rarely seen outside Northern Ireland).
Sterling banknotes are also issued by
* the Government of the Isle of Man and * the States of Jersey and
* the States of Guernsey, but their notes are not generally accepted off their own islands (although Guernsey notes can sometimes be found in Jersey and vice versa).
Kiwis arent the only people with plastic money, here in Northern Ireland we've had them for a while now too, plastic windows and all. (I especially like the cool "vertical" design)
The funniest thing is when you try to spend them in the rest of the UK (especially England) they have no idea whats going on. (Northern Ireland produces 4 different sets of notes from 4 diff banks. Scotland also print Bank of Scotland notes. England and Wales only have Bank of England, but all of them are legal tender, go figure??)
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Well in Ireland Im sure they have a problem, considering their currency is the Euro. Northern Ireland (regardless of political preference) is a different country (think North Carolina & South Carolina, 2 separate states), but is part of the UK.
Ive since found this out, BoE notes are only "legal tender" in England and Wales, but not in Scotland and NI. However neither are the NI or Scot notes "legal tender" in their respective territories, but infact have to be backed up pound for pound by BoE notes in a vault in London.
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Apologies to anyone offended by what I said above after checking wikipedia.org, which says:
Pound sterling banknotes are issued by
* the Bank of England accepted throughout the UK;
* the Bank of Scotland (generally accepted throughout the UK);
* the Royal Bank of Scotland (generally accepted throughout the UK);
* the Clydesdale Bank (generally accepted throughout the UK);
* the Bank of Ireland, First Trust Bank, Northern Bank and Ulster Bank (rarely seen outside Northern Ireland).
Sterling banknotes are also issued by
* the Government of the Isle of Man and
* the States of Jersey and
* the States of Guernsey, but their notes are not generally accepted off their own islands (although Guernsey notes can sometimes be found in Jersey and vice versa).
Kiwis arent the only people with plastic money, here in Northern Ireland we've had them for a while now too, plastic windows and all. (I especially like the cool "vertical" design)
The funniest thing is when you try to spend them in the rest of the UK (especially England) they have no idea whats going on. (Northern Ireland produces 4 different sets of notes from 4 diff banks. Scotland also print Bank of Scotland notes. England and Wales only have Bank of England, but all of them are legal tender, go figure??)
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