On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 01:43:17PM +0100, Philip Newton wrote: > Hi, > > I've got an old £10 note that I got from my grandmother several years > ago and kept off using, and now my bank won't change it for me any more > :( IIRC, it's slightly larger than corrent £10 notes. It's got Florence > Nightingale on the back.
Ah. real money. (At least of people of my age. Someone's bound to prefer something older). And nice diplomatic £5 notes. > I presume that old bank notes can be changed in England for new ones, > possibly at any bank or, as a last resort, in some central bank (BoE, > perhaps?). Not sure if you could actually get away with spending them still here. [I have this feeling that they're not legal tender, in that shops etc are allowed to refuse them] Certainly I'm told that the Bank of England's "I promise to pay the bearer on demand the sum of £10" is good forever. > If this is so, would someone be willing to change this bank note into a > new £10 note for me that I can either exchange for DEM or EUR or use in > a future trip to the UK? If so, contact me off-list and I'll send it to > them by postal mail, if that's acceptable (or if one of you will be > around Hamburg in the near future, they could pick it up). I expect that you can probably do it over the counter at a UK bank without having an account there if you come to visit. I wouldn't trust a £10 note to remain in the envelope if sent through the post. But maybe I worry too much. Nicholas Clark
