Ten bob note fraud.

A lady in her 60's was approached by a man in a car park in Arbroath and
asked if she could give a £20 note in exchange for two £10 notes, she
did so but she received two ten bob notes that are similar in colour to
£10 notes.

A "spokesman" at Edinburgh Coin Shop said the ten bob notes were worth
£1 each.

I wonder if that information is accurate, thy woman may have been given
scarce ones, I wish more details of the ten bob notes had been given.
Billy

note.boy wrote:
...but she received two ten bob notes that are similar in colour to
=A310 notes.

I take it that "bob" means shilling? These were 1/2 pound notes, then,
it that right?

Is a "quid" a pound?

Is there any other common slang we should know?

(We do not have broadcast TV in our home, but we see it when we travel
and on one of these "street crime" shows, the guy said, "A dollar
twenty nine" and it took me a few seconds to realize that he had to
mean a hundred and twenty-nine dollars, not $1.29.)

On 30 Aug 2005 18:46:54 -0700, wrote:

note.boy wrote:
...but she received two ten bob notes that are similar in colour to
£10 notes.

I take it that "bob" means shilling? These were 1/2 pound notes, then,
it that right?

Is a "quid" a pound?

Is there any other common slang we should know?

There's a lot -- particularly from England. Most of it relates to the
older monetary system, though.

(We do not have broadcast TV in our home, but we see it when we travel
and on one of these "street crime" shows, the guy said, "A dollar
twenty nine" and it took me a few seconds to realize that he had to
mean a hundred and twenty-nine dollars, not $1.29.)

?? That one doesn't make any sense. Just goes to show that criminals
are plain ol dumb.

Padraic.

la cieurgeourea provoer mal trasfu
ast meiyoer ke 'l andrext ben trasfu.

wrote:

note.boy wrote:
...but she received two ten bob notes that are similar in colour to
£10 notes.

I take it that "bob" means shilling? These were 1/2 pound notes, then,
it that right?

Is a "quid" a pound?

Is there any other common slang we should know?

(We do not have broadcast TV in our home, but we see it when we travel
and on one of these "street crime" shows, the guy said, "A dollar
twenty nine" and it took me a few seconds to realize that he had to
mean a hundred and twenty-nine dollars, not $1.29.)

I'm not aware of any slang names for the decimal coins but there were many
for the LSD ones.

Tanner, bob, two bob, half a dollar, ten bob, all are sadly missed.

A quid is a pound. Billy