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# Pound notes? Where are you living?
The only place I know with pound notes are the Channel Islands.
(I helped save b3ta! Mu Dinofiddler, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 22:03, archived)
# Fucking Hell
They went in 1984, 28 years ago.
(I helped save b3ta! Ghoti Fingers, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 22:09, archived)
# Not in the Channel Islands, I was there a couple of months back.
Pound notes. It was cute how they were trying to be different with their monopoly money.
(I helped save b3ta! Mu Dinofiddler, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 22:11, archived)
# also not in scotland
last i knew they were still legal tender, just very rare.

well, i say legal tender. if you believe the nerds on wikipedia they aren't actually legal tender at all, but they're de facto legal tender. yeah.
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Thu 12 Jul 2012, 0:15, archived)
# the disclaimer is that this happened ten years ago
but ten years back pound notes - bank of scotland, i think; i think both clydesdale and rbos had stopped them - were *always* given in change by the butchers in st andrews. i think they had a massive stock of them or something. it wasn't very easy to buy anything with them in england.

for all i know the butchers has shut down and pound notes have finally died.



edit: i just went and checked. the nerds on wikipedia reassure me that pound notes are still issued in scotland, but it's rbos that issue them, not bos. that told me.
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Thu 12 Jul 2012, 0:14, archived)
# You still get pound notes in Scotland
The seem to cycle between till and wallet, never going near a bank so they're slowly getting less and less recognisable as notes.

(azgiles, Thu 12 Jul 2012, 7:02, archived)
# the ones i always got
passed from the butchers and the pub. i imagine the pub then went and spent them at the butchers, because they never gave them out in change. neither did anyone else.
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Thu 12 Jul 2012, 11:16, archived)