WeeScottishLass I live in America, and I have a 10 lb Scottish bank note apparently dated June 18th 2001, in Edinburgh, with a EA prefix. Is this worth anything, or are they still in circulation? Any information you can give would be greatly appreciated.. it has a picture of Walter Scott on the front and a Distillery on the back. Thank you so much for your time and videos
the UK has confusing, number of locally issued banknotes... scotland has 3 , clydesdale -royal and bank of scotland banknotes...but does any feature scottish kings and queens pre 1707.saltires-st andrews cross ...or any in gaelic & english? wales uses sasanach money, the only part of the UK, without its own banknotes.... (:
Great idea for a blog! I've been a numismatist since I was a kid and loved the few foreign currencies that I've been able to collect from here in Texas. The few U.K. bits of currency I have collected are from just after WWII. I can't help but look at the dates and the artwork and think of all the folks that handled the currency went through in life. Also loved the watermarks that were incorporated. Thank you so much!
So a quid and a pound are the same!? That makes so much more sense now! Thank you! I have always been curious about currency from other places, so thanks so much for doing that!
Thanks for another kick-ass video! Here's some slang words for US currency you may or may not have heard: 25 cent piece - Quarter, 2 bits; Susan B. Anthony dollar or an Anthony - 1 dollar coin similar in size to a Quarter; Sacagawea dollar coin or a Sacagawea - similar to the Anthony dollar but golden colored; 100 dollar bill - C note, Benjamins ; 5 dollar bill - an Abraham, fin, five-spot, fiver; 50 dollar bill - half yard, in horse race gambling a "frog" and considered unlucky ; 10 dollar bill - sawbuck, a Hamilton; 20 dollar bill - a Jackson ,a dub; $1000 notes are occasionally referred to as "large" in banking; this is beside the generic money slang you've probably heard : Greenbacks, Moolah, bread, smackers. bucks, cash. I also have some loonies (1 dollar Canadian coin, and toonies (2 dollar Canadian coin)as I live very close to Canada.
It's s lot easier now. In 1970, we used a one cent coin, a three cent coin (thrupney bit), a six penny coin (six pence), a twelve cent coin (shilling), a twenty four cent coin (2 shilling) and then the Pound note. Prices would be marked 3 pound 6 and 2. Three pounds, six shillings, and two pennies. The addition and subtraction was difficult.
All the different banks have their own designs which is pretty cool. I saw a £50 note once, never seen £100 though. Also, if you arrange all the coins together it makes the crest you see on the back of the £1. That's why all the coins have a partial design on them.
50 years ago, that penny wouldn't have hit the floor. Someone would've snatched it in mid-air and told you didn't deserve it if you'd asked for it back. Appreciate what you've got. Happy Canadian Thanksgiving Day!
I have to say that this video was absolutely fascinating but then I like most of your videos and could listen to you talk any time of the day or night.
Hi, Mosco! I’m a fairly recent but VERY devoted fan of your videos (mostly your reaction channel), so it’s good to find ones like this from before I found you. Anywho, my parents took a trip to Scotland a couple of years ago, and some of what they brought back included two fiver notes and a whole bunch of coins. England really doesn’t know what she’s missing, Scottish notes and coins are fantastic and I hope more people come to accept them with time.
Thanks for the video on Scottish money. I've collected coins before so I find this interesting. Maybe a video on the difference between Irish and Scottish accents? Even cooler if you happen to have Irish friends to compare...or a video on native Scottish animal species?
+Scott Wallace One of the things that's pissed me off for centuries is how we lost Carlisle and Newcastle when they are so obviously on our side of the Wall.
The coins are cute! Euro's one are a bit boring AHAHHAHA I found your video recently and I thank you because in January I will move to Edinburgh for work (I'm Italian) and I'm learning a lot about Scotland in your video and I'm getting used to the scotish accent! :D
great vid. in auz our money is quite a similar. we have in coins 5, 10, 20, 50 cents as well as 1 dollar and 2 dollars. notes we got 5, 10, 20, 50 and 100 dollars. written with a $=dollar or c=cents as you said 100 cents = 1 dollar. all are money have the queens face on it being part of the commonwealth, all notes are plastic and all coins made out of nickel and copper. the back side of the coins all have native plants and animals except for the $2 dollars which have an aboriginal elder. I will put a link below to show you what they look like, even a link to the new fiver they will bring out very soon but there is nothing on the others yet. the new bank notes have some awesome features in it to make it extremely hard to fake and some tactile numbers and bumps along each edge so blind or people who can't see well can still tell each note apart very easily. I will also put a link below describing why each person is on notes. I will also put some more information on the coins below like showing the different coins we have had throughout the years cause many commemorative coins are released to mark events, people or organisations which have had a significant impact on Australian society. to wrap up I got one last bit of interesting trivia which is kinda related, we have a song written about the change from the old pounds and pence to the decimal currency (dollars and cents). the song is called the decimal currency pub by an Australian legend slim dusty and a link will be below. thanks for reading all of this, I know it's been long but I hope you learned something new. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coins_of_the_Australian_dollar (pictures of coins about a page down) banknotes.rba.gov.au/australias-banknotes/next-generation-banknotes-program (new fiver and information on that) banknotes.rba.gov.au/australias-banknotes/people-on-the-banknotes (people on notes, navigate to each one in sidebar) www.ramint.gov.au/circulating-coins (different looks the coins have had, look at the 20c, 50c, $1 and 2$ as none of the others has changed) ruclips.net/video/MWZ7R89knbk/видео.html (decimal currency pub)
And, if Scotland became independent, it could have the Scottish Pound pegged to the English pound. So, the English Pound would be equal and interchangeable with the Scottish one, in Scotland. (Then, in England, Scottish money not accepted, except maybe banknotes close to the border).
Being an American expat in England, the most confusing are the 5p & 10p coins, as our 5 cent coins (nickels) are the size of a 10p and our 10 cents (dimes) are the size of a 5p.
we've still got the £1 note and it still can be used in Bonnie Scotland but people tend to keep them nowadays but you still can go into the royal bank of scotland and see if they have any as they may not always have them and the £5 coins is similar to the £1 note as well as they are also still legal tender but people tend to keep them as well (I have 4 of them myself and two scottish £1 notes)...
Hey, it seems that British currency has changed a LOT over the last few years. It would be a huge help to find a video explaining the new versus old, and which ones are still accepted. I can't seem to find a good video on this subject.
do most businesses in scottland take 50 and 100 pound notes? in america most of your supermarkets and department stores will take $50 and $100's but your fast food and liquor stores will mostly only take $20's and below
Cupro-nickel coins stopped a few years back, the value of the copper was greater than the face value. They are now steel with copper plating. A magnet will show this. I sometimes get 'copper' coins sticking to my phone case for this reason.
Is the reason that Scottish notes aren't accepted in some places due to the fact that the UK does not (or did not at one time) have one central bank. I have, for instance, a 20 pound Ulster note which I couldn't convert back into dollars after I returned to the US. They told me they only tale pound sterling.
I collect coins from around the world. Prior to 1967, when the currency was changed from pounds shillings pence to digital currency, there were two different shillings minted--one with the British coat-of-arms and one with the Scottish coat-of-arms. What does Northern Ireland use for currency? British or Scottish or ???
The first time I visited Scotland, you still paid with pounds, shillings and pence, and there was a wonderful plethora of terms for various amounts that I just loved: quid, bob, tanner, crown, guinea, and so on and so forth. I was really sad when this richness (at least linguistic) was replaced and simplified.
Coming back from the UK, I still have a good amount change left over, mostly from Edinburgh, where you had to have exact change for the busses. eye roll. I guess it gives me a reason to come back since I've got a bunch of pounds I have to lose. In more ways than one. I hate myself sometimes. Will see myself out.
I lived up in Scotland for a while and I miss the notes, they're so much more colourful than the English ones! A supermarket cashier recently overheard in London was handed a Scottish note and had to ask a colleague if 'we accept pounds sterling'. Not sure that's quite what they meant!
I saw some heads on those notes that don't belong the Queen, can you tell us about those, I think one was Robert the Bruce! And it looks like if you lay the coins out some of them form the crest when put together.
You forgot to tell that the notes in Scotland are made by different banks, RBS, Bank of Scotland and Clydesdale, and not a public bank like The Bank of England.
I’ve a few a hundred pound notes never had a 50 tho but it’s like a dark red and I believe there is not a Scottish minted version of it it’s only Bank of England
So a quid = a pound... THANK YOU! For years I dinna ken (see, I'm tryin') if they were the same or if quid meant something different... Quid/Pound, Pound/Quid. Got it :D
Excellent as usual! Thanks! The two-pound coin is quite pretty :) You requested suggestions for videos: please don't forget to do more on Scottish mythological creatures. Thanks!
I collect 50ps with a different (special) design on the tails side. Eg olympic sports, scouts, Girlguides and all that jazz. I'm up to 67 and according to my everyone I ever told is quite sad
Last! What do you purchase with a one and two pence coin? Or do you have items that cost three pence? Could you also call a ten-er a Pavarotti (another type of tenor)? So a note is a bill, but do you wager a quid on quidditch or a note? When listening to a Professor, if you take notes, can you be prosecuted? Here the paper money is a bill, which is also another name for a bird's beak. Can you therefor call a Scottish bird's beak a quid? I love your vlogs! Adorable! Cheers! How do you say "cheers!" in Scotland...? You should do a pub-vlog and toast to your watchers w different Scottish ales and toasts... Tata!
Our currencies are very similar. I think the $ is a little more than the £, but by less than 20% difference. The way ours is set up though works the same. We have the penny that is $0.01 it was copper for the longest time, but now it's like copper plated brass; the nickel is $0.05, the dime is our smallest coin and it's worth $0.10, the quarter is the biggest and is $0.25. We used to have a $0.50 coin, but it's not really in use much anymore. Then we have paper money $1, $5, $10, $20, $50, $100, $1,000, & $1,000,000. Most people never see past the $100. We also used to have a $1 coin that makes the occasional comeback and the $2 note that wasn't very popular and is now more so a collectors item, but still legal currency.
The British and Scottish banknotes weren't a problem at all, but the coins flummoxed me since they were so different from the US coins I grew up with. Close to the end of my trip I had a pocketfull of them that I wanted to get rid of because my American bank would only exchange banknotes back and I only wanted a few coins to keep as souvenirs. Many thanks to the UK shopkeepers who were so patient when I set a pile of coins on the counter and asked them to pick out what I owed from it!😂😂😂
England got the plastic notes finally, i have heard a lot of RUclipsrs complaining about their money being paper. me personally I am in Aus and I have always had plastic so i can't relate but it is nice to hear you guys are getting it.
HAHAHAHAHA I was about 15 years old when I learned that Wales and Ireland weren't the same place. I wouldn't trust me with ANYTHING relating to ANY geography trust me ahaha
On the topic of money, I learned that when people counterfeit money it gets put in a washing machine with a bunch of rocks so it looks old and used. Don't ask how I found that out......
If it were not for the Scottish who were in rule of the land at the time of merging with the rest of the country the uk would be called scotland today!
So it’s pretty much the same as a US five dollar bill and a Fiver and a US ten dollar bill and a Tener? I noticed that you didn’t show any one dollar bills, like we do in the USA. What do you use for a one dollar bill in Scotland or England?
Yes, it is all the same currency (GBP). Retail banks in Scotland and Northern Ireland just issue their own series of banknotes which are often not accepted of Scotland and Northern Ireland. Bank of England notes are accepted all over the UK.
No £50 note? There's such a thing in England, but I've seen one about twice in my life! When I worked in a shop and someone tried to pay with a £50 note, we had to get everyone from the store manager to the local priest to check it first!!
WeeScottishLass I'm not sure if we get £100 notes down in England. If I got one I'd be tempted to frame it (well, until I was skint which wouldn't be long!) Love your channel BTW. Keep up the great work!!
Couldn't you afford to feature a Scottish or English £50 note or even a Scottish £100 note? I'm old enough to remember the pre-decimal currency when there were 240 pennies in a pound. We had farthings, halfpennies, pennies, three penny bits, tanners, shillings, florins, half crowns, crowns and ten shilling notes. In those days our money was worth something, unlike today when kids are throwing anything less than a 50p on the road to get chewed up by vehicle tyres. They are such a wasteful generation today.
Your money sounds so simple to understand when you explain it, You made it simple to understand :D big smile. I watch a lot of doctor who, I'm a Big whovian., yet when I watch it your lots money is so confusing and I don't know why. I'm glad :D you made the video; you made it so understandable!
yeah Americans have such a hard time understanding British money. Worst part is its not that hard to understand. Americans a whole don't really know much about the world!
+Amber Higgins Ta bother is, Americans refuse to pay any bother to the resta the world, until it jumps up and bites them in the ass out of self defence. We are all people, even you.
The USA is a lot like England in the since that for the most part we are inward looking nations. England became that way by being an Island off of main land Europe. The US is on the other side of the world from the old world so in our early history we focused on our self and were isolated . Also its a large nation were many live far for the boarders of other nations. In Europe people are close to the boards of other nations so it makes people a lot more international i.e having to understand other Language and cultures.
and most donation tins or cans or collection boxes will no doubt suffer the loss of donations when the coins are eliminated. I dropped most of my pennies nickles and small change in donation boxes. I would assume these donation collection vessels are all through Scotland as well and the UK
Great wee video but you didn't mention that all 3 Scottish banks issue their own different designs for the notes. I also discovered it is more difficult to pass a Clydesdale notes in England than a Bank of Scotland or Royal bank notes. I have never had a £50 or £100 note and even in Scotland , many places other than banks are willing to accept them.
agentcrm Like I would ever do it, but they tell me here that if I leave a bill on the dashboard of my truck on a hot sunny day it'll melt itself right on there,band it's gone for good.
As an American, I'm kind of relieved to find out your currency system is almost exactly the same as ours, except that our dollars are the lowest bill and your pounds are the highest coin. To add to the confusion, they're not common by any means, but you can find coins in higher denominations, especially dollars...
In the US, instead of a coin worth 20 cents (the term "cent" deriving from "percent," I believe), we have a 25 cent coin, called a quarter. I was wondering why we would divide our dollars into fourths instead of fifths like you, when it hit me that your currency is worth more than ours. Sure enough, 25 cents is equal to 20p in value according to exchange rates. Oddly enough, I feel kind of jealous about this, though I don't really know why.
We have quarters in the U.S. because cents are 1 part of a hundred. Twenty-five of them would be 1/4 of a hundred, so a quarter of a hundred. There used to be 50 cent coins (maybe still in circulation) and they were called half-dollars (half of a hundred). That's the history lesson for the day. :)
In US coin was derived from Spanish silver dollar. During colonial period and revolutionary war coins were scarce so the Spanish dollar which was the circulating currency in America was devided so that people could have hard currency. It was split in half - half dollar. Split again - quarter dollar. And even again an eighth dollar- which was known as a bit. Two bits were a quarter etc. America decimalized at the time of the American revolution. 100 cents (from French centime) per dollar. 10 cents per dime . Canada uses similarnunits for same reason.
I've used Scottish money in England millions of times and I've never had a problem... But in recent years we've been swamped with EU immigrants who have been taking retail jobs so perhaps you've come across one of them and it was the first time they've seen a Scottish note?
I've seen about 3 50s in my life and I saw a 100 pound note once.. The 100 was refused by the bar staff as they were worried it was fake as they hadn't seen one either..
hey nice video.i am from england and I was just wandering if If the scotland have the same currency as the england money because I would like to leave in scotland when im older
GTA5PETE Scottish money is the exact same as English money, the banks distribute both bank of England and Scotland so it shouldnt be a problem up here, down south in England is the problem for us
GUYS MOST OF THESE NOTES ARE NO LONGER IN USE, NEITHER ARE THE POUND COINS, THEY'VE ALL CHANGED! REALLY SORRY!
WeeScottishLass
I live in America, and I have a 10 lb Scottish bank note apparently dated June 18th 2001, in Edinburgh, with a EA prefix.
Is this worth anything, or are they still in circulation?
Any information you can give would be greatly appreciated.. it has a picture of Walter Scott on the front and a Distillery on the back.
Thank you so much for your time and videos
the UK has confusing, number of locally issued banknotes...
scotland has 3 , clydesdale -royal and bank of scotland banknotes...but does any feature scottish kings and queens pre 1707.saltires-st andrews cross
...or any in gaelic & english?
wales uses sasanach money, the only part of the UK, without its own banknotes.... (:
If I had 40 English pounds would I be able to change them for 40 Scottish pounds?
@@Monty2022 yes scottish banknotes are fully backed by english banknotes (the law states they only have to be half backed)
WeeScottishLass now I’m really confused.
Great idea for a blog! I've been a numismatist since I was a kid and loved the few foreign currencies that I've been able to collect from here in Texas. The few U.K. bits of currency I have collected are from just after WWII. I can't help but look at the dates and the artwork and think of all the folks that handled the currency went through in life. Also loved the watermarks that were incorporated. Thank you so much!
I have a £5 polymer note issued by the Royal Bank of Scotland on my last visit there 3 years ago with the portrait of Nan Shepherd.
So a quid and a pound are the same!? That makes so much more sense now! Thank you! I have always been curious about currency from other places, so thanks so much for doing that!
Oh thank the gods, I thought I was just being stupid and alone!
Thanks for another kick-ass video! Here's some slang words for US currency you may or may not have heard: 25 cent piece - Quarter, 2 bits; Susan B. Anthony dollar or an Anthony - 1 dollar coin similar in size to a Quarter; Sacagawea dollar coin or a Sacagawea - similar to the Anthony dollar but golden colored; 100 dollar bill - C note, Benjamins ; 5 dollar bill - an Abraham, fin, five-spot, fiver; 50 dollar bill - half yard, in horse race gambling a "frog" and considered unlucky ; 10 dollar bill - sawbuck, a Hamilton; 20 dollar bill - a Jackson ,a dub; $1000 notes are occasionally referred to as "large" in banking; this is beside the generic money slang you've probably heard : Greenbacks, Moolah, bread, smackers. bucks, cash. I also have some loonies (1 dollar Canadian coin, and toonies (2 dollar Canadian coin)as I live very close to Canada.
It's s lot easier now. In 1970, we used a one cent coin, a three cent coin (thrupney bit), a six penny coin (six pence), a twelve cent coin (shilling), a twenty four cent coin (2 shilling) and then the Pound note. Prices would be marked 3 pound 6 and 2. Three pounds, six shillings, and two pennies. The addition and subtraction was difficult.
As well as the tuppence, Crown and Guinea. Thanks, I was going to tell her that but I didn't want to sound pedantic.
+Scott Wallace LSD money. Pounds, shillings, pence. Slainte Mor.
All the different banks have their own designs which is pretty cool. I saw a £50 note once, never seen £100 though. Also, if you arrange all the coins together it makes the crest you see on the back of the £1. That's why all the coins have a partial design on them.
50 years ago, that penny wouldn't have hit the floor. Someone would've snatched it in mid-air and told you didn't deserve it if you'd asked for it back. Appreciate what you've got. Happy Canadian Thanksgiving Day!
I have to say that this video was absolutely fascinating but then I like most of your videos and could listen to you talk any time of the day or night.
Hi, Mosco! I’m a fairly recent but VERY devoted fan of your videos (mostly your reaction channel), so it’s good to find ones like this from before I found you. Anywho, my parents took a trip to Scotland a couple of years ago, and some of what they brought back included two fiver notes and a whole bunch of coins. England really doesn’t know what she’s missing, Scottish notes and coins are fantastic and I hope more people come to accept them with time.
Is that the Glenfinnan Railway Viaduct on the back of the tenner? That's my favourite bridge of ever.
Thanks for the video on Scottish money. I've collected coins before so I find this interesting. Maybe a video on the difference between Irish and Scottish accents? Even cooler if you happen to have Irish friends to compare...or a video on native Scottish animal species?
Isn't the England place you mentioned that little province just south of the Kingdom of Scotland?
Aye
It's the one on the correct side of Hadrians Wall.
An hemorrhoid in other words. Snurpf. lol
+James Skinner And you Sir, are no sort of a Scottish mason.
+Scott Wallace One of the things that's pissed me off for centuries is how we lost Carlisle and Newcastle when they are so obviously on our side of the Wall.
The coins are cute! Euro's one are a bit boring AHAHHAHA
I found your video recently and I thank you because in January I will move to Edinburgh for work (I'm Italian) and I'm learning a lot about Scotland in your video and I'm getting used to the scotish accent! :D
great vid. in auz our money is quite a similar. we have in coins 5, 10, 20, 50 cents as well as 1 dollar and 2 dollars. notes we got 5, 10, 20, 50 and 100 dollars. written with a $=dollar or c=cents as you said 100 cents = 1 dollar. all are money have the queens face on it being part of the commonwealth, all notes are plastic and all coins made out of nickel and copper. the back side of the coins all have native plants and animals except for the $2 dollars which have an aboriginal elder. I will put a link below to show you what they look like, even a link to the new fiver they will bring out very soon but there is nothing on the others yet. the new bank notes have some awesome features in it to make it extremely hard to fake and some tactile numbers and bumps along each edge so blind or people who can't see well can still tell each note apart very easily. I will also put a link below describing why each person is on notes. I will also put some more information on the coins below like showing the different coins we have had throughout the years cause many commemorative coins are released to mark events, people or organisations which have had a significant impact on Australian society. to wrap up I got one last bit of interesting trivia which is kinda related, we have a song written about the change from the old pounds and pence to the decimal currency (dollars and cents). the song is called the decimal currency pub by an Australian legend slim dusty and a link will be below. thanks for reading all of this, I know it's been long but I hope you learned something new.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coins_of_the_Australian_dollar (pictures of coins about a page down)
banknotes.rba.gov.au/australias-banknotes/next-generation-banknotes-program (new fiver and information on that)
banknotes.rba.gov.au/australias-banknotes/people-on-the-banknotes (people on notes, navigate to each one in sidebar)
www.ramint.gov.au/circulating-coins (different looks the coins have had, look at the 20c, 50c, $1 and 2$ as none of the others has changed)
ruclips.net/video/MWZ7R89knbk/видео.html (decimal currency pub)
And, if Scotland became independent, it could have the Scottish Pound pegged to the English pound. So, the English Pound would be equal and interchangeable with the Scottish one, in Scotland. (Then, in England, Scottish money not accepted, except maybe banknotes close to the border).
Just come across your videos and I'm binge watching them, great job!
Is she neat or what!
Being an American expat in England, the most confusing are the 5p & 10p coins, as our 5 cent coins (nickels) are the size of a 10p and our 10 cents (dimes) are the size of a 5p.
The Scottish paper money is very beautiful. I got some when we visited Edinburgh.
we've still got the £1 note and it still can be used in Bonnie Scotland but people tend to keep them nowadays but you still can go into the royal bank of scotland and see if they have any as they may not always have them and the £5 coins is similar to the £1 note as well as they are also still legal tender but people tend to keep them as well (I have 4 of them myself and two scottish £1 notes)...
“Wee horseman on the back”. Name our countries saviour and most famous king please.😂 Robert the Bruce.
Hey, it seems that British currency has changed a LOT over the last few years. It would be a huge help to find a video explaining the new versus old, and which ones are still accepted. I can't seem to find a good video on this subject.
Definitely liked this one. This is something I need to learn for when I make my trip.
That 20 pound note actually looks pretty cool. In fact, I liked the way pretty much all of your notes looked
Also, I liked the video. Cool topic.
do most businesses in scottland take 50 and 100 pound notes? in america most of your supermarkets and department stores will take $50 and $100's but your fast food and liquor stores will mostly only take $20's and below
Cupro-nickel coins stopped a few years back, the value of the copper was greater than the face value. They are now steel with copper plating. A magnet will show this. I sometimes get 'copper' coins sticking to my phone case for this reason.
=O Ok this was very insteresting *o* and the coins¬es are so pretty! I love the desings
Is the reason that Scottish notes aren't accepted in some places due to the fact that the UK does not (or did not at one time) have one central bank. I have, for instance, a 20 pound Ulster note which I couldn't convert back into dollars after I returned to the US. They told me they only tale pound sterling.
I collect coins from around the world. Prior to 1967, when the currency was changed from pounds shillings pence to digital currency, there were two different shillings minted--one with the British coat-of-arms and one with the Scottish coat-of-arms. What does Northern Ireland use for currency? British or Scottish or ???
The first time I visited Scotland, you still paid with pounds, shillings and pence, and there was a wonderful plethora of terms for various amounts that I just loved: quid, bob, tanner, crown, guinea, and so on and so forth. I was really sad when this richness (at least linguistic) was replaced and simplified.
Coming back from the UK, I still have a good amount change left over, mostly from Edinburgh, where you had to have exact change for the busses. eye roll. I guess it gives me a reason to come back since I've got a bunch of pounds I have to lose. In more ways than one. I hate myself sometimes. Will see myself out.
I lived up in Scotland for a while and I miss the notes, they're so much more colourful than the English ones! A supermarket cashier recently overheard in London was handed a Scottish note and had to ask a colleague if 'we accept pounds sterling'. Not sure that's quite what they meant!
I saw some heads on those notes that don't belong the Queen, can you tell us about those, I think one was Robert the Bruce! And it looks like if you lay the coins out some of them form the crest when put together.
Thank goodness! This video would have been unintelligible when British currency was not £1=100p
Would like to see a typical day in the life of mosco. Like just take a trip round your town
You wingnut. She hasta work and look after her family and all that. She doesn't just lark about the neighbourhood doing jigs
Well why dont you mind yer own business ya wankstick
+Lucas Stewart Good Advice. Sorry, I was out of line.
Scott Wallace all good
On a smaller scale, it would be nice to see mosco oot and aboot!
Twenty quid note is called a score where I live in Scotland and pretty much all of Glasgow South and North Lanarkshire dunno about other areas x
You forgot to tell that the notes in Scotland are made by different banks, RBS, Bank of Scotland and Clydesdale, and not a public bank like The Bank of England.
I’ve a few a hundred pound notes never had a 50 tho but it’s like a dark red and I believe there is not a Scottish minted version of it it’s only Bank of England
So a quid = a pound... THANK YOU! For years I dinna ken (see, I'm tryin') if they were the same or if quid meant something different... Quid/Pound, Pound/Quid. Got it :D
Don't Clydesdale bank issue a £100 note??
In England's defence we've never come in contact or seen a Scottish note so how would we know if its fake or not
I met one of my fave singers the other day, and he said he liked my accent. I guess I should be proud to be Scottish lol
Excellent as usual! Thanks! The two-pound coin is quite pretty :) You requested suggestions for videos: please don't forget to do more on Scottish mythological creatures. Thanks!
Scottish mythological creatures? Hmm. We had a king once. Would that do?
3:41 is this or the following two notes still legal tender in scotland?
I collect 50ps with a different (special) design on the tails side. Eg olympic sports, scouts, Girlguides and all that jazz. I'm up to 67 and according to my everyone I ever told is quite sad
I wonder if they will do a leaving the EU coin to match the joining the EEC 50p they did in 1972 or thereabouts.
I wonder if they will do a leaving the EU coin to match the joining the EEC 50p they did in 1972 or thereabouts.
Spaghetticat I do that as well, £1 and £2 coins too. I work in a shop so I come across a lot there {:
Try spending a Northern Irish note in Scotland.
This is genius. You just talk about regular life and you get all these subscribers. If I weren't so shy I would vlog about Alabama like this.
Last! What do you purchase with a one and two pence coin? Or do you have items that cost three pence? Could you also call a ten-er a Pavarotti (another type of tenor)? So a note is a bill, but do you wager a quid on quidditch or a note? When listening to a Professor, if you take notes, can you be prosecuted? Here the paper money is a bill, which is also another name for a bird's beak. Can you therefor call a Scottish bird's beak a quid? I love your vlogs! Adorable! Cheers! How do you say "cheers!" in Scotland...? You should do a pub-vlog and toast to your watchers w different Scottish ales and toasts... Tata!
Joseph Vatekov ➡ Very punny!!
Who are the men featured on the notes? I couldn't see if their names were printed or not. :)
Our currencies are very similar. I think the $ is a little more than the £, but by less than 20% difference. The way ours is set up though works the same. We have the penny that is $0.01 it was copper for the longest time, but now it's like copper plated brass; the nickel is $0.05, the dime is our smallest coin and it's worth $0.10, the quarter is the biggest and is $0.25. We used to have a $0.50 coin, but it's not really in use much anymore. Then we have paper money $1, $5, $10, $20, $50, $100, $1,000, & $1,000,000. Most people never see past the $100. We also used to have a $1 coin that makes the occasional comeback and the $2 note that wasn't very popular and is now more so a collectors item, but still legal currency.
The dollar is worth more than the pound. Holy Shit Son.
Scott Wallace I said that I wasn't sure and I was wrong. The £ is just slightly higher.
The British and Scottish banknotes weren't a problem at all, but the coins flummoxed me since they were so different from the US coins I grew up with. Close to the end of my trip I had a pocketfull of them that I wanted to get rid of because my American bank would only exchange banknotes back and I only wanted a few coins to keep as souvenirs. Many thanks to the UK shopkeepers who were so patient when I set a pile of coins on the counter and asked them to pick out what I owed from it!😂😂😂
I didn't know that a pound and a quid were the same value. Thanks.
If you can get the English new plastic £5 note then you might amend this one. It is strange having a plastic note with window in.
Got one of them yesterday.
Put it under a UV light and there is a secret number 5 on it. First one
I got I kept. It's a strange note to see. Have to get used to them
now.
England got the plastic notes finally, i have heard a lot of RUclipsrs complaining about their money being paper. me personally I am in Aus and I have always had plastic so i can't relate but it is nice to hear you guys are getting it.
That's so you can use it as a tampon as well. I'm not sure how it works. Ask one of your boyfriend's.
Could you do a video explains Scottish geography, as in explain where all the different places are
HAHAHAHAHA
I was about 15 years old when I learned that Wales and Ireland weren't the same place. I wouldn't trust me with ANYTHING relating to ANY geography trust me ahaha
Do they accept USD? Or do you have to convert in Scotland ?
On the topic of money, I learned that when people counterfeit money it gets put in a washing machine with a bunch of rocks so it looks old and used.
Don't ask how I found that out......
U can ask ur bank for one pound notes for a quid if it's Scottish bank
That's right I've had issues in stores where they look at the notes and complain. (Look after those pennies, stop dropping them). Great vid
Hello, love your VLOGS, do Scottish people prefer that tourist use Scottish money instead of the GBP?
Nah we're not fussy at all =D
WeeScottishLass, I would like to examine that currency more closely; if I send you my address, might you pop it in the post to me? Thanks in advance.
Haha! :D
Ach Aye. Send mere $3600 over to cover the costs of currency exchanging and shipping, then wait by your mailbox with bated breath.
Hahahah 😆
Valiant effort :D
Do one on the euro
Does Scotland not have a £50 like England & Wales? (I'm English but I've never been to Scotland before)
Yes, they even have 100 pound notes in Scotland and Northern Ireland.
Greetings from North Ayrshire West Scotland
If it were not for the Scottish who were in rule of the land at the time of merging with the rest of the country the uk would be called scotland today!
Shape of 50 pence coin looks like Canadian "Loonie" 😊
your coins are so cool!
So it’s pretty much the same as a US five dollar bill and a Fiver and a US ten dollar bill and a Tener? I noticed that you didn’t show any one dollar bills, like we do in the USA. What do you use for a one dollar bill in Scotland or England?
Lydia Rentmeester
A one pound coin.
Do merchants in Scotland expect England's currency?
Yes, it is all the same currency (GBP). Retail banks in Scotland and Northern Ireland just issue their own series of banknotes which are often not accepted of Scotland and Northern Ireland. Bank of England notes are accepted all over the UK.
WeeScottishLass Are Scottish shops good about British notes, or would they be weird about it that way as well?
This was a wonderful video. Very useful. Thanks so much. I'd love to know some of your favorite local places/things to do in your hometown. :)
No £50 note? There's such a thing in England, but I've seen one about twice in my life!
When I worked in a shop and someone tried to pay with a £50 note, we had to get everyone from the store manager to the local priest to check it first!!
How much money do you think I have? =P
There's a £50 and £100 I've seen both just couldn't get my hands on them
WeeScottishLass I'm not sure if we get £100 notes down in England. If I got one I'd be tempted to frame it (well, until I was skint which wouldn't be long!)
Love your channel BTW. Keep up the great work!!
Couldn't you afford to feature a Scottish or English £50 note or even a Scottish £100 note? I'm old enough to remember the pre-decimal currency when there were 240 pennies in a pound. We had farthings, halfpennies, pennies, three penny bits, tanners, shillings, florins, half crowns, crowns and ten shilling notes. In those days our money was worth something, unlike today when kids are throwing anything less than a 50p on the road to get chewed up by vehicle tyres. They are such a wasteful generation today.
Your money sounds so simple to understand when you explain it, You made it simple to understand :D big smile. I watch a lot of doctor who, I'm a Big whovian., yet when I watch it your lots money is so confusing and I don't know why. I'm glad :D you made the video; you made it so understandable!
I had to watch Top Gear to get what a Quid is. Sad but true.
yeah Americans have such a hard time understanding British money. Worst part is its not that hard to understand. Americans a whole don't really know much about the world!
Good thing we elected you to be our spokesman. Don't know what us Americans would do without your knowledge
+Amber Higgins Ta bother is, Americans refuse to pay any bother to the resta the world, until it jumps up and bites them in the ass out of self defence. We are all people, even you.
The USA is a lot like England in the since that for the most part we are inward looking nations. England became that way by being an Island off of main land Europe. The US is on the other side of the world from the old world so in our early history we focused on our self and were isolated . Also its a large nation were many live far for the boarders of other nations. In Europe people are close to the boards of other nations so it makes people a lot more international i.e having to understand other Language and cultures.
Really interesting thanx weegal from Jeff In England love history
and most donation tins or cans or collection boxes will no doubt suffer the loss of donations when the coins are eliminated. I dropped most of my pennies nickles and small change in donation boxes. I would assume these donation collection vessels are all through Scotland as well and the UK
Sterlings invaluable now! 😂😂
Great wee video but you didn't mention that all 3 Scottish banks issue their own different designs for the notes. I also discovered it is more difficult to pass a Clydesdale notes in England than a Bank of Scotland or Royal bank notes. I have never had a £50 or £100 note and even in Scotland , many places other than banks are willing to accept them.
When I came back to Mexico the currency exchange people would not change the pound notes from Scotland, only the ones from England.
Most commonly dropped coin is the 5p
Wow, completely different looking to English notes.
I still prefer Aussie notes because they're not paper and can therefore be safely washed. :p
Geez, here in Canada we it's illegal to launder money.
Scott Wallace Yeah they don't like you laundering money down under either. Lot harder when it's plastic too :p
agentcrm Like I would ever do it, but they tell me here that if I leave a bill on the dashboard of my truck on a hot sunny day it'll melt itself right on there,band it's gone for good.
Scott Wallace
Can't say I've tried that one. :p
wouldn't surprise me though.
+agentcrm Don't try it here or some Eejit'll scoff your truck.
moved here for uni and I noticed you missed the 50 note
idk if there's a Scottish version coz all my money is English xD
Your 2 pound coin is like a Canadian toonie except the colors are recersed...so cool!
As an American, I'm kind of relieved to find out your currency system is almost exactly the same as ours, except that our dollars are the lowest bill and your pounds are the highest coin. To add to the confusion, they're not common by any means, but you can find coins in higher denominations, especially dollars...
Oh, Happy New Year!
the pound notes has never been taken out of circulation
You can't imagine how many things you can buy in my country with those! =)
weather .. love your... stuff
In the US, instead of a coin worth 20 cents (the term "cent" deriving from "percent," I believe), we have a 25 cent coin, called a quarter. I was wondering why we would divide our dollars into fourths instead of fifths like you, when it hit me that your currency is worth more than ours. Sure enough, 25 cents is equal to 20p in value according to exchange rates. Oddly enough, I feel kind of jealous about this, though I don't really know why.
R Rodriguez Both cent and percent are derived from centime meaning 1/100 th, same as centimeter and centiliter.
I was going to say that, Jan! Some countries' penny-like coins are actually called centimes.
We have quarters in the U.S. because cents are 1 part of a hundred. Twenty-five of them would be 1/4 of a hundred, so a quarter of a hundred. There used to be 50 cent coins (maybe still in circulation) and they were called half-dollars (half of a hundred). That's the history lesson for the day. :)
So how did the original 50 Cent get his name?
In US coin was derived from Spanish silver dollar. During colonial period and revolutionary war coins were scarce so the Spanish dollar which was the circulating currency in America was devided so that people could have hard currency. It was split in half - half dollar. Split again - quarter dollar. And even again an eighth dollar- which was known as a bit. Two bits were a quarter etc. America decimalized at the time of the American revolution. 100 cents (from French centime) per dollar. 10 cents per dime . Canada uses similarnunits for same reason.
Thanks ,Awesome,been waiting for awhile for thisone
Yeah, £50 notes aren't worth it anyway. I had one once and tried to buy something with it. they called a supervisor over and everything.
you are amazing !
I have a ha penny (half penny) somewhere, I don't remember what year it is.
I've used Scottish money in England millions of times and I've never had a problem...
But in recent years we've been swamped with EU immigrants who have been taking retail jobs so perhaps you've come across one of them and it was the first time they've seen a Scottish note?
Wayne Rooney. You gearbox. England doesn't have the money that you overcharge them.
Here in the US, we are taught that Scottish money is different from others as it is much harder to release.
You are well taught. You could lose a kidney trying to prise a pound coin offa one of our young ladies.
It surprised me when she dropped the coin. I thought those would stick to Scottish fingers. Unfortunately I tend to misplace money too frequently.
Interesting, no £2 coin like a €2 coin
What about 50 and 100?
I've seen about 3 50s in my life and I saw a 100 pound note once.. The 100 was refused by the bar staff as they were worried it was fake as they hadn't seen one either..
I love your intro :3
Is that an intifada scarf?
You'd make a great teacher on money.... :D
hey nice video.i am from england and I was just wandering if If the scotland have the same currency as the england money because I would like to leave in scotland when im older
GTA5PETE Scottish money is the exact same as English money, the banks distribute both bank of England and Scotland so it shouldnt be a problem up here, down south in England is the problem for us