From: john boyle 
Newsgroups: uk.finance
Subject: Re: Is my note still legal tender?
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 01:31:51 +0000

In message , Rachel 
 writes
>> The strict answer to your question is No - in fact , it has never
>> been legal tender. However, you should be able to exchange it.
>
>Ok, forgive me for being thick but what do you and others mean, it isn't
>legal tender, what is it then?

An IOU from Bank of Ireland.

In fact it isnt even strictly an IOU, its just a pre-printed receipt 
which the original depositor passed to somebody else who passed it to 
somebody else etc., etc.,,,,, but for all intents and purposes it is an 
IOU.
-- 
john boyle