Fruit Machine Chat

I remember a couple of weeks ago, after a few fruit and a few beers, my mate and I went for a curry.

We'd had a good night and paid the £70 (ish) bill with coins.

It got me thinking, I wonder what the most expensive thing ever bought solely with £1 coins was.....so if you can top a £70 ruby i'd be interested to hear.

Good Luck

Someone asked me the other day what the limits for legal tender denominations actually are, and I was surprised to see that there is no upper limit on the quantity of £1 or £2 coins that can be used in any one transaction. Here's the full list, thanks to royalmint.gov.uk:

£5 (Crown) - for any amount
£2 - for any amount
£1 - for any amount
50p - for any amount not exceeding £10
25p (Crown) - for any amount not exceeding £10
20p - for any amount not exceeding £10
10p - for any amount not exceeding £5
5p - for any amount not exceeding £5
2p - for any amount not exceeding 20p
1p - for any amount not exceeding 20p

To answer the original question, I do remember buying a Spectrum 128k (the one with the tape recorder attached at one end) with a combination of one-hundred £1 coins, and the remaining £9.99 on my mum's old Argos store card. I was about 7-yrs-old at the time.

You started young!

Nixxy wrote: 5p - for any amount not exceeding £5
2p - for any amount not exceeding 20p
1p - for any amount not exceeding 20p

Grr. And I wanted some satisfaction payng my parking ticket to the bastard council.

Laptop from Comet. It was £599 and they went berserk

Nixxy wrote:Someone asked me the other day what the limits for legal tender denominations actually are, and I was surprised to see that there is no upper limit on the quantity of £1 or £2 coins that can be used in any one transaction. Here's the full list, thanks to royalmint.gov.uk:

£5 (Crown) - for any amount
£2 - for any amount
£1 - for any amount
50p - for any amount not exceeding £10
25p (Crown) - for any amount not exceeding £10
20p - for any amount not exceeding £10
10p - for any amount not exceeding £5
5p - for any amount not exceeding £5
2p - for any amount not exceeding 20p
1p - for any amount not exceeding 20p

To answer the original question, I do remember buying a Spectrum 128k (the one with the tape recorder attached at one end) with a combination of one-hundred £1 coins, and the remaining £9.99 on my mum's old Argos store card. I was about 7-yrs-old at the time.

Thats interesting - but I'm honestly amazed that there ARE limits for any denomination. As far as I'm concerned (and I would have insisted this if you hadn't shown me that) - all coinage is legal tender, therefore you can pay for anything with any combination of legal tender you like.

The funniest thing is that Scottish banknotes aren't 'legal tender' in any country - not even Scotland!!

Legally speaking, shops don't have to give you change when you buy goods.

JakeyC wrote:The funniest thing is that Scottish banknotes aren't 'legal tender' in any country - not even Scotland!!

we still have pound notes up here.

Reminds me of the old joke about copper wire.

It was invented by 2 Scots fighting over a penny.

£100000 on me new house, abbey were not best pleased

JakeyC wrote:The funniest thing is that Scottish banknotes aren't 'legal tender' in any country - not even Scotland!!

What's also interesting is that English notes aren't legal tender in Scotland - only coinage is.

The difference is that some places in England will refuse Scottish notes - i've never been anywhere in Scotland that has refused an English bank note.

anfield road wrote:£100000 on me new house, abbey were not best pleased

Thats class

harry2 wrote:Legally speaking, shops don't have to give you change when you buy goods.

This I believe, is absolutely true.

i dont think they know elvis's dead in scotland yet do they?(joke)

Old un-pc joke.


Jock drops a pound coin, bends down to pick it up and it hits him on the back of his head.