Old style £5.00 notes . . . . .

[Perpetua]

Don't forget, if you've any stashed away that tomorrow is the last day that they can be accepted as legal tender!

Although banks will still exchange them.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39792170

[gill2009]

  Hubby just away to buy me grapes with my last old fiver  

[Bobsbeer]

Haven't had an old one in ages. Spent them.

[lynwlt]

May 4, 2017 9:20:11 GMT gill2009 said:

  Hubby just away to buy me grapes with my last old fiver  

Fermented ones?

[djs]

Interestingly... there are a reputed 1.5 million unaccounted for.

But what I really wanted to ask is this;

How long will you be able to exchange the £1 coin at a bank for? I know the deadline for legal tender-ness (ooh, is that a word?) but I can't find a deadline about exchange.

My Piggybank wants to know. He gets very angry on most Saturday mornings.

[Perpetua]

May 4, 2017 14:45:51 GMT djs said:

How long will you be able to exchange the £1 coin at a bank for? I know the deadline for legal tender-ness (ooh, is that a word?) but I can't find a deadline about exchange.

My Piggybank wants to know. He gets very angry on most Saturday mornings.

Well The Sun doesn't know either . . . . which is strange!

www.thesun.co.uk/money/2132666/new-one-pound-coin-size-12-sides-old-1-defects/

Other than to say " You may also be able to exchange them at the bank or Post Office if you hold an account there. But again, it’s best to check ahead of time. " . . . . . better get counting Dave!

[djs]

May 4, 2017 15:01:50 GMT Perpetua said:

Other than to say " You may also be able to exchange them at the bank or Post Office if you hold an account there. But again, it’s best to check ahead of time. " . . . . . better get counting Dave!

I've counted. There are 17.

It's the 486 x 20p's that are upsetting me.

You see, being a man of means (in my own lunchtime) I have gradually refused to leave the house with too-small change. It used to be 1s and 2s but soon graduated onto 5s and 10s.
Recently I took umbrage with 20s as they are the wrong shape and stick to my eVic mini VTC (trademark appreciated).

I have become overrun with coins and other than developing a frightening addiction to the waterfall coin machines at the sea-side, I may be forced to do something rash with them...
I was thinking about an epic "act of random kindness"...

[Perpetua]

May 4, 2017 15:18:02 GMT djs said:

May 4, 2017 15:01:50 GMT Perpetua said:

Other than to say " You may also be able to exchange them at the bank or Post Office if you hold an account there. But again, it’s best to check ahead of time. " . . . . . better get counting Dave!

I've counted. There are 17.

It's the 486 x 20p's that are upsetting me.

You see, being a man of means (in my own lunchtime) I have gradually refused to leave the house with too-small change. It used to be 1s and 2s but soon graduated onto 5s and 10s.
Recently I took umbrage with 20s as they are the wrong shape and stick to my eVic mini VTC (trademark appreciated).

I have become overrun with coins and other than developing a frightening addiction to the waterfall coin machines at the sea-side, I may be forced to do something rash with them...
I was thinking about an epic "act of random kindness"...

It's £2.00 coins I can't be doing with . . . . big, bulky unattractive coinage which I find quite offensive in my purse!

Fortunately our key fob machine at work for the vending doodahs takes them, so they get evicted pretty sharpish . . . . . although it's only just been upgraded to the new fivers, new pound coins are an aspiration at this time.

Most of the other shrapnel gets lobbed into charity collections as I go along . . . . so I'm sure a random act of kindness would be much appreciated by some deserving cause. 

[djs]

May 4, 2017 15:26:18 GMT Perpetua said:

It's £2.00 coins I can't be doing with . . . . big, bulky unattractive coinage which I find quite offensive in my purse!

Oh, now those are my precious... A man-sized coin, not for girls.

Although I do believe my short supply is due to all the (my) girls 'borrowing' them off me.

Work that one out.

[Postmodern Smoking]

May 4, 2017 14:45:51 GMT djs said:

But what I really wanted to ask is this;

How long will you be able to exchange the £1 coin at a bank for? 

According to HERE you need to spend or deposit your old £1 coins before 15 October 2017

[enagee]

I had 2 old fivers left up till today.... now i have 21 of the bloody things.... seems like some of my customers thought i was the ideal dumping ground for them grrrrrr, Ah well Morrison's will be getting them all in the morning.

[Perpetua]

May 4, 2017 17:51:54 GMT enagee said:

I had 2 old fivers left up till today.... now i have 21 of the bloody things.... seems like some of my customers thought i was the ideal dumping ground for them grrrrrr, Ah well Morrison's will be getting them all in the morning.

That's the spirit enagee!


Speaking as an employee for another supermarket chain . . . . .

[toots]

I had a few £10 & £5 notes stashed away which were left over from my last visit to the UK several years ago, and only just heard about the £5 notes plus the £10 notes disappearing soon also, so I've now gone to a currency exchange booth and changed them all up for euros. I reckon I'd have been stuck with them if I'd left it much longer

[jtc]

Hey guys don't worry yourselves
Just send them all to me and forget about them