What about this for a change find!

[Chris Perkins 228]

I haven't confirmed it yet, but a woman has contacted me who seems to have found a Queen Anne Guinea in her change while rummaging to donate to a church collection box !

Now, it could of course be a forgery or token of some kind and of very little value, but if not, that has to be the change find of all 3 millenia !

God does work in mysterious ways

Chris

[Sylvester 15]

I haven't confirmed it yet, but a woman has contacted me who seems to have found a Queen Anne Guinea in her change while rummaging to donate to a church collection box !

Now, it could of course be a forgery or token of some kind and of very little value, but if not, that has to be the change find of all 3 millenia !

God does work in mysterious ways

Chris

I wonder how that one went by unnoticed? Unless they thought it was brass...

[Emperor Oli 0]

Slightly off-topic but I was in a shop the other day and after I'd payed for my things, I noticed a £1 on the till, not in it. I asked why it was there and the assistant informed me that it was from Gibraltar. So my question; Are foreign £1 (from colonies) legal tender here in England. I'd say yes but I don't really know...

[Sylvester 15]

Slightly off-topic but I was in a shop the other day and after I'd payed for my things, I noticed a £1 on the till, not in it. I asked why it was there and the assistant informed me that it was from Gibraltar. So my question; Are foreign £1 (from colonies) legal tender here in England. I'd say yes but I don't really know...

Erm yes and no, some are and some aren't apparently, but i can't remember which are and which aren't...

[Chris Perkins 228]

I don't think they are you know, but as they are also worth the same face value, and in sterling, I don't really see why not. They weight the same, and I've hid them in bags of UK coins and paid them into my bank account before! I do believe you can even openly pay them into some banks accounts. Also, vending machines seem to readily accept most of them!

I'm not even sure if they are 'legal' in the countries of issue, because strictly speaking the Scottish/NI bank notes are not even legal in Scotland/NI, but they are overlooked.

It's a funny subject that one. I think they represent a localised form of normal British currency in the country of issue, but of course no one wants them on 'the main land' purely because they are not sure what they are I suppose.

I'd love it if someone could tell me the official line too.

Chris