jahason

Just returned from Gibraltar and brought back Government of Gibraltar £5 and £10 notes. Made me think though how many different authorities issue notes in pound sterling currency? Before this trip I had only seen those issued by the Bank of England and the Scottish banks.

One further thought. Are dollars (those in currency union with the US dollar) issued by anyone other than the US federal reserve?

Come to think of it is the Pound sterling the only currency that comes in different forms?

stut

Off the top of my head:

Bank of England
Bank of Scotland
Royal Bank of Scotland
Clydesdale Bank
Northern Bank
Ulster Bank
First Trust Bank
Bank of Ireland
Gibraltar
Jersey
Guernsey
Isle of Man

And the Falklands?

I know that Deutschmarks used to be printed in Bosnia as Convertible Marks (which are now pegged to the Euro), but that's a slightly different situation. You have the various African CFA Francs pegged to the Euro too, these days, but then you could argue that currencies pegged to the US Dollar are reprinting those, too...

ISTR that there were specific versions of the Danish Kroner printed in Greenland and the Faroes, and of Dutch Guilders (now Euro as well) in the Netherlands Antilles, but I don't know the current status.

7free

In HK, the HK Dollar bank notes were printed by 3 banks: HSBC, Standard Chartered, and Bank of China.

jahason

The Republic of Ireland's 'punt' used to be in currency union with the pound sterling. But their currency was floated well before they switched to the Euro.

FlyingHoustonian

The FED (and US mint for coins) is the only agency that produces legal tender US dollar notes.

Plenty of countries have their currencies pegged to the dollar-Belize, Bahamas, ECB, etc etc and some others actually use the US dollar-Ecuador, Panama, El Salvador, Micronesia.

Ciao,
FH

Jenbel

Euro cent coins come in different forms to indicate the country of production.

Wingnut

An interesting related thread over here in the UK forum.

Bob'sYourUncle

The first character in the serial number of EUR bills (a letter) indicates the country that printed it. There's even a letter reserved for the UK

Bob'sYourUncle

But the Bosnian Convertible Marks were only legal tender there; they held no value in Germany AFAIK.

Ecuador & Panama only use the bills though, they mint their own coins (also AFAIK).

YVR Cockroach

Note that only Bank of England notes are of any value outside the country of issue.

alanR

No banknote - not even Scottish ones - are legal tender in Scotland

Jenbel

That's generally, but not always the case. It's more to do with lack of understanding of the complex system of note production in the UK, which means its just not recognised that these are £ sterling (in the same way that England tends to be substituted inappropriately for the UK or Great Britain), but there are some places which, used to Scots visiting, will take Scottish bank notes for forex.

FlyingHoustonian

But it is on par with the US Dollar one to one.

And Ecuador uses the "golden" Dollar Sac coins more than bills. Over 500,000,000$US in Dollar coins were sent to Ecuador. The lower coins are minted there.

Ciao,
FH

Sjoerd

The Netherlands Antilles Gulden was (and is) a different currency than the Dutch Gulden. The NA Gulden is pegged to the US dollar.

beergut

Dubai will take Scottish notes but from what I've read on TA you get a worse exchange rate.