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Sterling £1 pound coins pre Oct 2017

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  • 10-08-2018 7:48pm
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    jt69er
    Registered Users Posts: 331 ✭✭


    Anyone got any advice on how to exchange pre Oct 2017 sterling £1 pound coins?
    Not accepted in shops, banks will only accept if you have a sterling account into which you can lodge them. :mad:


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    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    I hope you haven't many of them. There was ample warning to get rid of them. Banks will take them but may require an account is held. Post Offices were exchanging them for new coins but as it ceased in Oct 17 they may not all be doing so now.


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    SEPT 23 1989
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    A trip to holyhead?


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    CeilingFly
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    Banks in the UK will exchange them. I exchanged a few and some old tenners 3 weeks ago.


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    jt69er
    Registered Users Posts: 331 ✭✭jt69er


    CeilingFly wrote: »
    Banks in the UK will exchange them. I exchanged a few and some old tenners 3 weeks ago.

    Just found them when I was searching for something else. Called Ulster Bank in Enniskillen and was told they wouldn't exchange them but you could lodge them if you had an account in the bank.


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    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    A trip to holyhead?

    They won't take them since last Oct


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    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    jt69er wrote: »
    Just found them when I was searching for something else. Called Ulster Bank in Enniskillen and was told they wouldn't exchange them but you could lodge them if you had an account in the bank.

    It's a matter of calling in to some banks, as they were told they may insist on bank accounts if they wish. It will vary from bank to bank.


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    jt69er
    Registered Users Posts: 331 ✭✭jt69er


    Aidan Large Matte wrote: »
    I hope you haven't many of them. There was ample warning to get rid of them. Banks will take them but may require an account is held. Post Offices were exchanging them for new coins but as it ceased in Oct 17 they may not all be doing so now.

    Didn't know I had them till last week. :(


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    pawrick
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    stick them up on adverts, someone might be collecting them if you're lucky plus will cost you nothing to list them there.


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    mopi
    Registered Users Posts: 293 ✭✭mopi


    Nationwide BS refused to take mine Dec 2017. Advise was to go to Bank of England in London. Be worth seeing the inside imho


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    cml387
    Registered Users Posts: 8,444 ✭✭✭cml387


    mopi wrote: »
    Nationwide BS refused to take mine Dec 2017. Advise was to go to Bank of England in London. Be worth seeing the inside imho
    I was there.! In London last April we had 30 pounds in old 10 pound notes.
    Went to the Bank Of England. Personally escorted to the office that does those things. It took five minutes.


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    mjdh1957
    Registered Users Posts: 13 ✭mjdh1957


    Bank of England will only take notes, not coins


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    SteM
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    Do you have many of them?


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    jt69er
    Registered Users Posts: 331 ✭✭jt69er


    SteM wrote: »
    Do you have many of them?[/]
    Around £70.


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    Collie D
    Registered Users Posts: 11,373 ✭✭✭✭Collie D


    Same story with old £10 notes. Just back from UK and friend had three but was told in a bank only Bank of England will change them. Which wasn't ideal seeing as we were in Wales. Ended up giving them to a homeless guy.


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    limerickpat
    Registered Users Posts: 82 ✭✭limerickpat


    A tesco self service till took the old £10 notes for me in July, worth trying any old sterling you have


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