Nicholas Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 01:43:17PM +0100, Philip Newton wrote:
>> 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]
If I remember rightly *no* British Bank notes are strictly legal
tender. But you'd certainly not get away with spending them here.
> 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.
Indeed so. Though, if you were to take it to the BoE they'd no longer
give you a chunk of gold; you'd just get a new £10 note.
>> 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.
You do realise too that, if it's in sufficiently good condition, it
might be worth rather more than £10 by now to a dealer in bank notes.
--
Piers
"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a language in
possession of a rich syntax must be in need of a rewrite."
-- Jane Austen?
