Scottish Pounds

[arsenal]

I know someone who is planning on going to Thailand quite soon. He likes to use Scottish Pounds and so I have a few questions. Can these be exchanged at bureau de change? Do the Thai tellers recognise them? Does anyone have any experience of changing Scottish Pounds in Thailand or any other part of S.E Asia? How can I find out the exchange rate as Scottish Pounds are not listed on XE or any of the other currency converters. It's annoying. Gnash Gnash Gnash!
Thanks in advance.

[scottish-guy]

Since uneducated English retail staff fail to recognise Scottish banknotes I wouldnt expect Thai BdeC staff to !

In Spain however (ALC airport) the BdeC staff not only recognise them - they offer a marginally higher rate than for BofE notes.

And quite rightly.

Glad to see you've stopped derailing NewAllan's thread

[goji]

Give it about 20 years after independence & the Scottish Pound (or Lira or whatever it will be called) will end up like the Zimbabwe dollar.

Mind you, since every single political party seems intent on borrowing excessively, the rest of the UK should not be far behind.

Incidentally, should we have a special forum for all the topics on Scotland raised by Arsenal ?

[arsenal]

Don't be like that Goji. We have learned that Scottish Pounds are welcomed at Alicante (I think) airport. Where else can you get that sort of invaluable information. I am reminded of Frankie Boyle's comment that Scotland is the only country where a travel report consists entirely of alcohol prices.

[FarangRuMak]

Don't be like that Goji. We have learned that Scottish Pounds are welcomed at Alicante (I think) airport. Where else can you get that sort of invaluable information. I am reminded of Frankie Boyle's comment that Scotland is the only country where a travel report consists entirely of alcohol prices.

Surely Frankie Boyle knows that there are TWO such places ending in "land" very much associated with the colour green and entirely surrounded by water?
I'm referring to Greenland of course.

[scottish-guy]

IF ONLY Scotland were indeed "entirely surrounded by water"!

Unfortunately she is lumbered with a huge carbuncle on her arse!!

The standard of edukashun in here is shocking

[scottish-guy]

Give it about 20 years after independence & the Scottish Pound (or Lira or whatever it will be called) will end up like the Zimbabwe dollar....

I realise that SGT members do not like facts to get in the way of their ramblings, but it ought to be pointed out that the 2nd worst performing currency in the world in the past year has been the GBP.

The absolute worst btw (but not by much) was the Turkish Lira

Just saying like...

[pong]

Well-at least he is then not the archetipical Scotsmen, trying to save every halfpence. (when they fight over it-they invent the copper wire).
SOME (that means not all) private-change-offcies will take them and if so, always at a (slight or big) lower rate as GBP/English. Ditto, but the nr of them taking is even lower, for change-offices from the 12+ Thai banks. This is for BKK-no idea about other places. The best place-it has been told so often its nauseating, palces IN BKK to change cash is the 3 SuperRich offices+1 named like Power or Value, all in 1-2 blocks to the left of the BigC rajprasong (opposite Central World), at least 1 of them takes them.

[scottish-guy]

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[arsenal]

I think it comes to something when a genuine request for information invites an anti English rant from Scottish. I also notice that until logged in the picture posted is entitled 'arsenal.jpg'. This means he's downloading pictures on to his computer and saving them with my handle as their title. This is now a dangerous obsession and reminds me of Chief Inspector Dreyfus. Scary Scottish Cyber Stalker. Mmm.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qqjJwIkuTo&spfreload=10

[dab69]

personally, by the title of the thread I was hoping for a hot video...

[FarangRuMak]

Don't be like that Goji. We have learned that Scottish Pounds are welcomed at Alicante (I think) airport. Where else can you get that sort of invaluable information. I am reminded of Frankie Boyle's comment that Scotland is the only country where a travel report consists entirely of alcohol prices.
I have often heard that only the London/Bank of England version of Sterling is strictly legal tender and that the other variants can, if the shit hits the fan, be denied redemption as currency.
Given that the phrase "the shit hitting the fan" is never used in the lexicon of high finance you can assume that I'm no expert in these matters.

[Nirish guy]

You're quite correct there as here in N.Ireland we also have our local STG currencies and they're not worth the paper they're printed on when travelling and for this trip I had to ask my bank to change my local notes to Bank of England notes so I could change them here in Bangkok.

[goji]

I realise that SGT members do not like facts to get in the way of their ramblings, but it ought to be pointed out that the 2nd worst performing currency in the world in the past year has been the GBP.

To be fair, in the original post I had suggested the outlook for the GBP was not that great either.

Fortunately at present we're allowed to invest what little savings we have in almost any currency. If comrade Corbyn ever becomes PM, almost any other currency will do. Although it is unwise to wait for that to happen.

Worse still, an independent Scottish currency is likely to be a complete disaster unless the SNP finally see sense and start creating the conditions for a thriving capitalist economy.

[frequent]

You're quite correct there as here in N.Ireland we also have our local STG currencies and they're not worth the paper they're printed on when travelling and for this trip I had to ask my bank to change my local notes to Bank of England notes so I could change them here in Bangkok. https://www.theguardian.com/money/2012/sep/12/can-i-spend-scottish-money-england