twenty sterling note

votecounts

Hey boardsies,
IF you want a 20 sterling note from an irish bank, which one will you get: the bank of ireland, the other northern ireland ones or a bank of england ones.
Thanks in advance

physioman

votecounts wrote: »

Hey boardsies,
IF you want a 20 sterling note from an irish bank, which one will you get: the bank of ireland, the other northern ireland ones or a bank of england ones.
Thanks in advance

depends where you plan on spending it. i know in England they can be funny about accepting ni notes. best going for boe notes

coylemj

It depends on what they have in their stock, they may ask you if you're going north and try to give you NI notes but you can insist on BoE notes. You're buying from them so you can always refuse anything but BoE notes if you're travelling across the Irish Sea

BTW, if you already have any NI notes and are travelling to GB where NI notes are technically legal tender but not very welcome, you can exchange them for BoE notes in the Republic as follows - these exchanges are a legal obligation on the issuing banks so they have to accept their own notes in exchange for the BoE equivalent.

AIB will swap First Trust notes
BOI will swap BOI (Donegall Place) notes
Ulster Bank will swap Ulster Bank notes

Northern Bank notes are effectively orphaned through the closure of Danske Bank in the Republic though they probably never inherited the obligation to exchange NB notes here.

Richard

coylemj wrote: »

BTW, if you already have any NI notes and are travelling to GB where NI notes are technically legal tender

Actually they're not legal tender (the only legal tender UK notes are BoE notes and then only in England and Wales). They are, however legal currency, which is a different thing.

Northern Bank notes are effectively orphaned through the closure of Danske Bank in the Republic though they probably never inherited the obligation to exchange NB notes here.

The notes are now labelled "Danske Bank" - a bit weird that banknotes for use in Northern Ireland are now labelled in Danish ("Danske Bank" means "Danish Bank").

Btw if you're stuck with NI or Scottish notes in England, Tesco (and probably other) self-service checkouts take those notes and will give BoE notes and coins as change, even if you buy something really cheap.

jameshayes

The real pain is when they give you £50 notes and people look at you like you've 2 heads when you try spend them... similar enough response when you try use a 100 note here!