Old Fivers

[sunny-dave]

A smart Irish Person (no not that one) has fobbed me off with an old fiver whilst I was in the Emerald Isle - it was part of a refund for an overpayment in Sterling & so it was returned in Sterling notes.

I did notice, but it wouldn't have been polite to quibble, they were being quite generous in returning the cash at all.

So - has anyone tried getting a swap at either a Bank or a Post Office recently - I know they were doing swaps immediately after May 5th, but they may have stopped by now?

A letter to the Bank of England seems a bit over the top for £5 ...

[Hopkirk]

Wolf, we had a bag of assorted obsolete coins from round the world and 'er indoors took it into a charity shop. Maybe it was lucky but they had a coin collected who drops by occasionally. By chance he went in later and was over the moon about them.

[237SJ]

"You can't simply go into a bank, hand over the old note and be given a new one" Yes you can - I did just that a couple of weeks ago