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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: moggy on 17 June 2009, 21:00:06
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Hi all went to pay my water rates today ,I took £5 in 10 pence's and 95 pence in 5 pence's as its £5.94 per week.The girl said i cannot accept them as they are not legal tender.Is this right or are they just taking the piss >:(
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She probably couldn't be arsed to count it out! ;)
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Hi all went to pay my water rates today ,I took £5 in 10 pence's and 95 pence in 5 pence's as its £5.94 per week.The girl said i cannot accept them as they are not legal tender.Is this right or are they just taking the piss >:(
Probably cant could more than what fingers they have on one hand ;D ;D ;D
Mind that would be 6 down there ;D :P
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Can't remember the amounts but each coin is, technically, only legal tender up to a certain figure --- one of these medieval things !!!!!
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Can't remember the amounts but each coin is, technically, only legal tender up to a certain figure --- one of these medieval things !!!!!
They had 10p and 5p coins in medieval times? :o
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Coins are legal tender throughout the United Kingdom for the following amount:
£5 (Crown) - for any amount
£2 - for any amount
£1 - for any amount
50p - for any amount not exceeding £10
25p (Crown) - for any amount not exceeding £10
20p - for any amount not exceeding £10
10p - for any amount not exceeding £5
5p - for any amount not exceeding £5
2p - for any amount not exceeding 20p
1p - for any amount not exceeding 20p
http://www.royalmint.com/corporate/policies/legal_tender_guidelines.aspx
So, the girl is wrong. The amounts tendered are in accordance with the Royal Mint Guidelines. YOU were in the right. :y :y
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then i will pay in grotes tomorrow
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then i will pay in goats tomorrow
Goats? do they accept them down there? ;D
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then i will pay in goats tomorrow
Goats? do they accept them down there? ;D
Not if you've had em first.
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i meant groats daz you think we are all fik down hear ;D ;D
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Can't remember the amounts but each coin is, technically, only legal tender up to a certain figure --- one of these medieval things !!!!!
They had 10p and 5p coins in medieval times? :o
Give me strength ::) ::) I was speaking hypo-pathetically-logically :P
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Is hypo-pathetically-logically,like i am a post modern vegetarian.I eat meat ironically
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Is hypo-pathetically-logically,like i am a post modern vegetarian.I eat meat ironically
...pass.... :D
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"In England and Wales the £5, £10, £20 and £50 notes are legal tender for payment of any amount. However, they are not legal tender in Scotland and Northern Ireland."
So if i go on holiday to Scotland they are not obliged to accept my smelly English money then !! :o
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I think there is a H&S law about large amounts of coins, to do with weights, but don't know the specifics...
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"In England and Wales the £5, £10, £20 and £50 notes are legal tender for payment of any amount. However, they are not legal tender in Scotland and Northern Ireland."
So if i go on holiday to Scotland they are not obliged to accept my smelly English money then !! :o
Damn right! ;)
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"In England and Wales the £5, £10, £20 and £50 notes are legal tender for payment of any amount. However, they are not legal tender in Scotland and Northern Ireland."
So if i go on holiday to Scotland they are not obliged to accept my smelly English money then !! :o
Everytime I go to Scotland they accept them, nomally the other way round is the problem. ;)
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"In England and Wales the £5, £10, £20 and £50 notes are legal tender for payment of any amount. However, they are not legal tender in Scotland and Northern Ireland."
So if i go on holiday to Scotland they are not obliged to accept my smelly English money then !! :o
Everytime I go to Scotland they accept them, nomally the other way round is the problem. ;)
Thats because half the retarded kids working in shops around here don't even know where Scotland is, let alone what their banknotes are like ;D
Maybe if Simon idiothead did "The Scotsfactor" then said kids may have an incling.... ....or teachers do a better job :-X
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"In England and Wales the £5, £10, £20 and £50 notes are legal tender for payment of any amount. However, they are not legal tender in Scotland and Northern Ireland."
So if i go on holiday to Scotland they are not obliged to accept my smelly English money then !! :o
I dont think thats correct.If it says Sterling on the note I believe they are obliged to accept it.I have had the argument using Nortern Irish money in English shops,and won.
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Used to love spending Jock pound notes down the pub, the number of times I got change for a fiver was unbelievable. ;D ;D
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"In England and Wales the £5, £10, £20 and £50 notes are legal tender for payment of any amount. However, they are not legal tender in Scotland and Northern Ireland."
So if i go on holiday to Scotland they are not obliged to accept my smelly English money then !! :o
I dont think thats correct.If it says Sterling on the note I believe they are obliged to accept it.I have had the argument using Nortern Irish money in English shops,and won.
It is absolutely correct.
Additionally, and shop can refuse to take any tender for any reason.
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You may well be correct that they can refuse for whatever reason, but I am sure that English notes are legal tender throughout the UK, and likewise any UK currency is legal tender in England.
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Whenever i've been to Scotland they have taken my English money,as someone else said i think in practice the problem is the other way around.
Also there are many shops around ,in London particularly,which will take the Euro,though i think you'll get a pretty rotten exchange rate from them.
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You may well be correct that they can refuse for whatever reason, but I am sure that English notes are legal tender throughout the UK, and likewise any UK currency is legal tender in England.
No, thats actually incorrect. As stated elsewhere, most shops will happily take either, as their banks have no issue taking them.
Check the weird definition of Legal Tender, and you'll see that it doesn't quite mean what you think it does ;)
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I've been to Scotland, England and Wales a couple of years ago in one go, when my dad went to pick up a new mig ::) anyway we had no problem spending the same type of notes (can't remember which, most likely Scotish) between any of them :-?