Can I exchange Scottish Banknotes for English in London? Should I?
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I spent a Clydesdale 10 note in a supermarket in Portsmouth where the cashier needed to check with the manager and after being told it was perfectly fine to take later handed it to the person behind in their change and was told then not to. He looked doubly bemused.
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Very (very) unlikely to get one back in change. In most tills a Scottish note would be put aside rather than with all the other notes, so wouldn't end up being given out for change.
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Wasn't that the loot the Great Train Robbers were after?
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That said, most of the times when I've gotten Scottish notes, it's been given to me as change in London. But I've gotten Scottish notes back in this way very, very infrequently -- something on the order of less than 1/50.
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I've lived in London my whole life (well, with a few gaps here and there) and I don't recall EVER having received a Scottish banknote in change. So I'd say the likelihood isnt anywhere close to 1 in 50, more like in the thousands (if that). Basically negligible.
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In a total of several months in London and the Thames Valley over the years, I'm quite sure I've never gotten one. I've brought a few back from Scotland, though.
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It could well be that your cash use pattern is different than mine in London. Actually it must be very different, given the time frames involved and the outcomes.
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While in the greater London area, I get Scottish bank notes given to me as change (from my cash transactions):
1. less than one out of every fifty times; and
2. less than one out of every hundred times; and
3. closer to one out of a thousand times; but
4. less than one out of two thousand times.
You do know that 2% is greater than 1%; that 1% is greater than 0.1%; and 0.1% is greater than 0.05%?
I do realize that you passed math class a long time ago.