Isle of Man

[hopalong]

is money minted in the Isle of Man legal tender on the mainland?

[IndieSinger]

Yes.

Question 2) Is Isle of Man money actually minted on the isle itself?

[thewillow]

It is legal tender but you will find that a lot of (particulary small) traders will view notes with suspicion that don't have "Bank of England" printed on them. For example, a lot of banks in Northern Ireland print their own notes which ARE legal tender and are imprinted with things like Ulster Bank.

[bernardo]

No.

2. No it isn't - it's probably minted in the Royal Mint in Llantrisant, South Wales - which mints coins for loads of countries.

[ianess]

No money is actually MINTED on IOM but think that you`re asking if it is legal tender on mainland. Official answer is NO, particularly for notes, but coinage can often slip through un-noticed and especially so in slot machines.

[Numbers]

For notes, the magic word is sterling.

[Pinotage]

Here we have the true value of Answerbank, two answers say it is legal, two answers say it isn't. They can't both be correct; they are insistent they are correct but they give no evidence.

In England & Wales the only notes which are legal tender are those issued by the Bank of England. In Scotland & Northern Ireland only one pound & two pound coins issued by the Bank of England are legal tender.

See http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/legaltender.htm

[bernardo]

The reason I didn't give any extra evidence for my correct answer is because none was asked for or needed; the questionner merely has to rely on my supreme genius and brilliance to know that I was giving the correct answer, and that therefore the contradictory answers must be incorrect.

[Pinotage]

Bernardo, you shouldn't be so modest :)

But unfortunately not everyone here is like you, and it seems that a lot of times questions are answered by people who have no more idea of the correct answer than the questionner

[nescafe]

having worked there recently i know that IOM notes are NOT legal tender on the mainland, they are not printed with pounds STERLING,we always changed our IOM notes on the ferry home.