Can you spend Irish money in the UK
27-10-2007, 18:30
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Can you spend Irish money in the UK
Hi people.
I need your help please, Ive been sent very kindly by a relative £20 in 4 £5 notes, only problem is they are from Ireland and Irish notes. Ive never seen them before and Im not sure if I can spend them in the UK???
So my question is can I? Ive looked on the Internet and I can find no answer, but I have a funny feeling shops will refuse the notes.
HELP!
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27-10-2007, 18:33
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Re: Can you spend Irish money in the UK
Are these Pounds Sterling from Northern Ireland. If so I'd have expected them to be legal tender. However, many shops may not recognise them. You might need to get them changed at a bank.
If they are from Eire, then no they won't be valid since they went to the euro years ago.
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27-10-2007, 18:54
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Re: Can you spend Irish money in the UK
Hi
Its from Ireland it just says bank of Ireland on it Five Pounds stirling
Help?? Are these no longer legal tender???
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27-10-2007, 19:07
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Re: Can you spend Irish money in the UK
NI is part of the uk so yes.. if there from the republic then no
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27-10-2007, 19:08
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Re: Can you spend Irish money in the UK
If you're not sure, just take them into the bank and ask to have it in "English" Sterling.
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27-10-2007, 19:08
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Re: Can you spend Irish money in the UK
No.
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27-10-2007, 19:18
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Re: Can you spend Irish money in the UK
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Originally Posted by pop80_uk
Hi people.
I need your help please, Ive been sent very kindly by a relative £20 in 4 £5 notes, only problem is they are from Ireland and Irish notes. Ive never seen them before and Im not sure if I can spend them in the UK???
So my question is can I? Ive looked on the Internet and I can find no answer, but I have a funny feeling shops will refuse the notes.
HELP!
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Ireland has Euros, NI has pounds and they are legal in mainland.
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27-10-2007, 19:28
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Re: Can you spend Irish money in the UK
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No.
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Don't tease the op with going round the houses, just answer the question..
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27-10-2007, 19:57
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Re: Can you spend Irish money in the UK
perfectly legal to spend but you might find a lot of shops wont take them
but as mentioned pop into a bank and they will swap them for you
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27-10-2007, 20:02
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Re: Can you spend Irish money in the UK
As people have said so few shops take them that the atms in the airports in belfast dispense english notes.
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28-10-2007, 01:03
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Re: Can you spend Irish money in the UK
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Originally Posted by pop80_uk
Hi people.
I need your help please, Ive been sent very kindly by a relative £20 in 4 £5 notes, only problem is they are from Ireland and Irish notes. Ive never seen them before and Im not sure if I can spend them in the UK???
So my question is can I? Ive looked on the Internet and I can find no answer, but I have a funny feeling shops will refuse the notes.
HELP!
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Yes, some shops won't like them, but if you wander into any bank they will swap them.
The reason most places don't like them is a lack of recognition so higher risk of fraud. Same with Scottish notes.
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28-10-2007, 10:45
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Re: Can you spend Irish money in the UK
Thanks people.
I will have to pop into a bank and change the notes for a real ones, I have no idea why the produce this money if you can not spend it (I.e scottish notes and Irish) why not just produce english notes.
Thanks again.
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28-10-2007, 15:14
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Re: Can you spend Irish money in the UK
Because you can spend it. My local newsagent at the station would always take scottish and irish notes off me on the occasions I had them, but he knew me and knew where to find me if I was floating him dodgy notes. A dark pub in a popular location on a Saturday night may be less willing to take the risk.
Why do they produce their own money, well saves England spending money on printing money for another country (Scotland), or shipping masses of notes over the irish sea. Logistics would be the easy answer here.
Whenever the Bank of Scotland, or whoever prints another £1M of bank notes it has to deposit another £1M with the bank of england to guarantee those notes. So really it is just another printing house for the bank of england.
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28-10-2007, 19:30
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Re: Can you spend Irish money in the UK
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Logistics would be the easy answer here.
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Also history, particularly that of the Bank of England*.
* And Wales, of course, but we don't need to bother mentioning it.
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28-10-2007, 19:39
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