I just discovered that Philippine Embassy in London don't accept scottish money I helped a friend from Scotland and accompanied there as she lost her passport and cards and she tried to pay cash and they refused it. One time, I experienced to pay scottish money in local stores in London and sales clerks asked the manager if they accept that kind of money.
Booooooo hisssssss, they have no reason in the UK to refuse Scottish Money it is exactly the same as any other money in the UK although the Bank of England appear to disagree with me I understood a different version of the phrase Legal Tender which applied to all notes issued in the UK, all were 'promisary notes' the only defined legal tender these days was copper coin. It would appear though that I am right in that all UK notes are nothing more than 'promisary notes' somewhere in the UK the reason is explained in this quote :- There is a Philippine consulate representative in Edinburgh but I guess he might be equally awkward about our money. So next time someone tries to give you an English note Penny ask them for gold instead because you don't trust these promisary English notes
One additional bit of advice but I'm sure you know already, never take Scottish money to the Phils you have almost zero chance of changing it to peso
I've only been handed Scottish notes a few times. Kept two £5 notes as 'souvenirs'. We toured around Loch Lomond a couple of years back, but I don't remember having any Scottish bank notes. Strange. I remember spending quite of lot English bank notes though.
I miss my money, we had more pictures on ours, they aren't as boring as English notes Actually my old local pub used to refuse English notes as there was a greater chance of them being counterfeit
Not seen Scottish money for years.. Remember though, the local CO-OP where I grew up would take those notes without a problem...
When I used to travel down from Scotland every week I would inevitably have Scottish notes on me and most places accepted them including my local but there would often be comments made when I produced a Scottish note Strange you saying you had not seen a Scottish note in years, it was the same up North, I rarely saw an English note in Scotland.
I remember once as a kid I got one from my mother, think it was a £5 note.. Thought she was making some joke at first.... Until I cashed it in for a magazine, sweets and whatever a 12 year old likes to spend money on
In the Philippines, they would not accept scottish notes, only english notes, luckily I have my mum with me. Even in the bank, they didnt recognize scottish notes, only english.
If you're in Manila, Cebu or Davao, take the "funny money" to HSBC Bank where they will happily accept it - at least they did a couple of years ago - in exchange for Pesos.
