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posted by [personal profile] bugshaw at 05:50pm on 20/05/2007
Do you think it would confuse them, if I were to try to spend a Guernsey £5 note in Scotland?
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posted by [identity profile] swisstone.livejournal.com at 04:59pm on 20/05/2007
Try it - it will be funny.
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posted by [personal profile] nwhyte at 06:05pm on 20/05/2007
I think they are more used to odd banknotes there than most English businesses are!
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posted by [identity profile] inulro.livejournal.com at 06:20pm on 20/05/2007
Another vote for "they'd be a lot less confused than would anyone in England".
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posted by [identity profile] nmg.livejournal.com at 06:25pm on 20/05/2007
They shouldn't have problems - I've spent NI notes in Scotland without problems. As [livejournal.com profile] nhw says, they're better prepared then most English businesses.

Here in Southampton, I've had a transaction refused when I tried to pay for part of a newspaper with a Guernsey 20p coin (pointing out Liz's head didn't help), despite the fact that you find them often in your change. The students' union at the University has a policy of not accepting Channel Islands coinage - but will accept NI and Scottish notes, Isle of Man coinage, Gibraltar coinage (with Southampton being a port city, and Portsmouth being close at hand, Gibraltar £1 coins are not uncommon) and St Helena and Ascension coinage (really!) without question.

One of these days, I really must take photos of the odd sterling coinage that I've found in my change...
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posted by [identity profile] willplant.livejournal.com at 08:52am on 21/05/2007
I'm afraid that although it is pegged a sterling equivalent, the Guernsey Pound isn't legal tender on the mainland.

What would confuse them more would be to try to pay with a Guernsey green pound note...!

Will

(A Guern via autopope's f-list)
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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 09:10am on 21/05/2007
Ah - if it's not legal tender I won't push it.
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posted by [identity profile] willplant.livejournal.com at 09:15am on 21/05/2007
I think in the past I have managed to get a high street bank / bureaux de change to swap Guernsey money into 'real' sterling on a like for like basis.

You might get an odd look, but it may be worth giving it a go.

Will
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posted by [identity profile] surliminal.livejournal.com at 06:08pm on 21/05/2007
Legal tender means nothing in SCotland - Scots banknotes technically aren't leagl tender either. they won't mind.

STOP DOING ANYTHING TO AVOID PROJECT!!!! :-)
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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 09:20pm on 21/05/2007
Too late - I changed it at the bank on my way in to uni (and they did give me a funny look - but put my fiver in a stash with £65 Guernsey in already so I can't have been that odd).

But I am working now instead of watching Heroes.
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