Does Wales have it's own banknotes?

[Invictas]

I was watching "Antiques Road Trip" this afternoon,Mark Stacey paid for something,and the camera zoomed in on the notes he used.They were nothing like I have ever seen in the UK.
I wonder if it was very bad editing,and they were using a clip from Northern Ireland where the series was recently.
That is IF NI has it's own banknotes.
Mmm more confusing by the minute!

[mike11111]

I disagree with your use of the term 'dominion'. As shown by the link below, Wales was incorporated into the English legal system. Apart from the purely strategic reasons (i.e an independent Wales could provide an easy base for foreign invasions from the Welsh coasts) was the notion that the Welsh "speak a barbarous tongue, not understood of the people of this realm". As a linguist and disciple of the Welsh language I would tend to disagree with that, although the same xenophobic tendencies can still be witnessed on AB, as witnessed by the by certain responses when I occasionally try to post a comment in Welsh or French, not to mention Russian.
http://en.wikipedia.o...cts_1535%E2%80%931542

[bednobs]

wales is a principality

[ABerrant]

In English common law the Dominions of the British Crown referred to all the realms and territories under the sovereignty of the Crown. Use of the word Dominion, to refer to a particular territory, was used to describe Wales until around 1800.

http://hansard.millba...les-title-of-dominion

I urge you to try and pin down the definition of "country" which I contend is nebulous at best. If the EU is to be held as any sort of arbiter in this you will find they have no truck with countries per se; they deal with Member States. Scotland is a constituent part of the Member State known as the UK (of GB and NI) and also has no translation service provided for it's language therefore Scotland must not be a country either.

I'm not sure what pricipality status is meant to confer in this debate. Liechtenstein is a Principality. It is a Member State of the EU. To the rest of the world it is a country.

[ABerrant]

^ Ooops! major error ... Liechtenstein, NOT a Member State but part of the European Economic Area.

[mike11111]

I would describe a principality such as Liechtenstein or Monaco, as a country whose sovereign has the title of Prince. To this extent describing Wales as a principality is a bit of a misnomer as although the eldest son of the monarch holds the title of Prince of Wales, he is not the sovereign of that country.