Smallpiper, when I went over a long time ago, I learned the ha'penny-guinea system, and have always remembered it. The new system would probably confuse me. I came out of Scotland with a pound note with some funny looking kind of cow on it (it needed shearing), and couldn't cash it on our last shopping foray in London. Forgot about it and came home with it. Would it still be worth something in Scotland or did they call in all the funny money?