what can I do with my £20 notes?

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what can I do with my £20 notes?

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Post by jazzdolly »

I wonder if anyone can help? I'm at a loss.....


I have bills to pay in sterling and the bank won't accept notes with writing on them.
I've been darting around this issue for the past few months, hoping and praying that the Dovis will accept the notes that the Garanto so kindly deem fit to circulate, even though nobody accepts them.

Today the Dovis didn't accept them either.

Now I don't know what to do?

The best they could offer was: " Keep them until you go back to the UK!"

How on earth can we survive financially like this?!!!

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Post by frontalman »

I changed £300 in 20s into TL at Asbank in Karaoglanoglu on Tuesday. The cashier didn't even look at them, just popped them into the counting machine. I am an account holder there and they know me well. I was under the impression that this was no longer an issue, and that the warning signs had been removed.

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Post by Welldigger »

It’s a joke, cash machines dispense the notes with writing in but you can’t use them anywhere. Döviz used to exchange them but now they’ve also stopped.
My recommendation is to get a receipt with every ATM transaction and promptly take them straight into the bank whose machine dispensed them.
Perhaps the recent hike in exchange rates will prompt a reversal of this rediculous rule as sterling in any condition is worth so much more!

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Post by Scoobydoo »

I put an appeal out asking if anyone is going back to UK that is prepared to take them, have been successful so far!

If any have come out of an ATM I do what another poster has suggested, I go into the bank straight away with my receipt and cash
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Post by JoandJelly »

We fell foul of this today with 4 notes out of 12 from the Garanti ATM in Alsancak being marked. Luckily the doviz took them but it is getting very annoying.

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Post by Loobyloo »

The money change refused to take a £20 note that had just come from the garanti machine today that had the tiniest bit out of the top right hand corner, and I do mean tiny, it is annoying.

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Post by jazzdolly »

Thankyou for the advice.

I have the receipt but the machine that dispensed them is in Catalkoy and not near a bank!


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I'll give you a pound for each one.

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Post by taurus »

Jazzdolly, i know it's of little use to you, when we came back to Cyprus in April, i brought clean notes with me and as were going home on Tuesday, if I had'nt changed the few I had left, i would have helped you out. Just wanted to say, some people are willing to help out, if possible.

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Post by sandfrog »

I spoke to someone from one of the leading banks yesterday and she said the rule about notes with writing on has now been removed by the central bank and all banks should now take them. Apparently (as ever) it was an ill considered political action!!

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Post by Gerry5063 »

Not been in TRNC since last October so was flabbergasted to have 2 x £20 notes out of 10 rejected by cashier at Supreme supermarket in Çatalköy this morning, one for a tiny tear and one because it has writing on the Queens face, anywhere else was ok she said. The reversal of this crazy directive will take time to trickle down!

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Post by frontalman »

pc4854 wrote:I'll give you a pound for each one.
What a paragon of generosity you are pc4854, if only there were more of your kind the world would be a far better place!

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