Are Punts still accepted?

zAbbo · 19-08-2002 5:12pm #1

Just found 40 punts while clearing out stuff, just wanted to know can they be exchanged for Euros anywhere.

I bloody hope so............

pertinax · 19-08-2002 5:25pm

central bank still changes them i heard.

DadaKopf · 19-08-2002 5:26pm

You'll have to go to the Central Bank in Dublin.

zAbbo · 19-08-2002 5:32pm

someone on IRC there told me, any bank will allow me to lodge it.

I can`t be going to dublin, its teh smelly.

Besides i don`t have a current passport.

Stephen · 19-08-2002 5:35pm

I don't think *any* bank will change the punts for you. AFAIK the central bank is the only place guaranteed to take punts.

zAbbo · 19-08-2002 5:56pm

I will try some of the banks tomorrow around dundalk, and maybe back home in monaghan on wednesday.

Blade · 19-08-2002 6:00pm

They had originally said that after 6 months of the introduction that you'd have to go to the central bank but AFAIK any bank will accept them now as a lodgement but they won't cash them. Just go into your local one and try.

oeNeo · 19-08-2002 6:11pm

Cool, I found a £1 in my room and was wondering if I could still change it.

azezil · 19-08-2002 6:13pm

Any bank will lodge it in to your account but it takes a day or two b4 u can have access to it. meh ma did it like 2 weeks ago, she found £200

Winters · 19-08-2002 6:24pm

Best really to go to the central bank. You gotta que for a while then you go up in an elevator and they will exchange them for you. I didnt know banks were still doing it.

If you have any foreign currancy that no longer exists (Franc etc.) then you have to post it out to address in that country and they will send you back and envelope with euros in it. Thats what my sister was told by the Central Bank anywho..

Lump · 19-08-2002 6:57pm

Like the rest of these lovely people said, you can lodge it into the account and it'll take a few days to "clear"... basically the same procedure as with a check.

John

zAbbo · 19-08-2002 7:07pm

All i can say is whoopeeeee

Mr.Applepie · 20-08-2002 10:46pm

Bullshít. I work in a bank and we're accepting notes untill the end of the year. You'll get your money straight away. Although im not sure there is a permanent tsb in dundalk

Lump · 20-08-2002 11:34pm

I'm just saying what I was told in the AIB :P

John

nahdoic · 21-08-2002 12:26am

Originally posted by bazH
All i can say is whoopeeeee

my god. that money just looks so funny and old now. and it's only been 6 months.

sceptre · 21-08-2002 1:59am

Yeah, that happens. I remember thinking that the last time the notes changed - especially with the Scotus £50 (not that I got to see them a lot:()

DrunkLeprachaun · 21-08-2002 6:33pm

I have heard from various sources that they'll only change notes, not coins. Just to warn you.

sceptre · 21-08-2002 9:33pm

Originally posted by DrunkLeprachaun
I have heard from various sources that they'll only change notes, not coins. Just to warn you.

This is the case apparently. Coins mean a trip to the Central Bank with a big heavy bag

Mr.Applepie · 21-08-2002 10:18pm

Originally posted by DrunkLeprachaun
I have heard from various sources that they'll only change notes, not coins. Just to warn you.

This is true. But as i said or at least thought i said(too lazy to check) notes will be accepted till the end of the year coin wont.

Oh and lump from my experience the friendliest person in AIB is the ATM machine. in my experience all the staff there have a big chip on their shoulder. Move to permanent TSB. Afterall it is the bank you can get on with etc. etc.

Are Punts still accepted?

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