# The Change From George To Elizabeth On British Currency

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [May 6, 2017, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-change-from-george-to-elizabeth-on-british-currency/786013 "2017-05-06T16:35:57Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 7, 2017, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-change-from-george-to-elizabeth-on-british-currency/786013/21 "2017-05-07T16:10:13Z")

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> [@blindboyard](#):
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> I also occasionally see legal tender which isn’t easy to recognise. Scottish money, Ulster money, coins with crabs on them from Gibraltar or the Bailiwick of Guernsey or suchlike.

Actually, currency from Gibraltar, the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man is not legal tender in the UK. It’s pretty common in circulation, especially Channel Island coins, but shops and banks do not have to accept it.

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**Post date:** [May 7, 2017, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-change-from-george-to-elizabeth-on-british-currency/786013/22 "2017-05-07T16:22:19Z")

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> [@Filbert](#):
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> Someone tried to pay with an old style 50p at work only last year… I think they’d been living overseas for years, but still. I was the only member of staff there who remembered them at all.

I’ve got some old coins in a little tin. The old 50p seems absurdly over-sized nowadays, but I suppose on original issue it was replacing the 10-shilling note, and worth a fair bit more than nowadays.

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**Post date:** [May 7, 2017, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-change-from-george-to-elizabeth-on-british-currency/786013/23 "2017-05-07T16:25:34Z")

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> [@blindboyard](#):
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> I also occasionally see legal tender which isn’t easy to recognise. Scottish money, Ulster money, coins with crabs on them from Gibraltar or the Bailiwick of Guernsey or suchlike.

I got a Falkland Islands pound coin in my change a few years ago, which was nice.

Northern Irish notes do pop up here occasionally. It’s interesting that some of them have the name of a Danish Bank on them…

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