Punts or Euros?
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Punts or Euros?
Anyone know if the grace period for using local currency has ended? I have some Irish Punts left from a previous trip and wondered if I should bother toting them along in two weeks when I return to the Republic of Ireland.<BR><BR>Thanks for your help!
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The last date that the punt was legal tender has past; it was February 9, 2002.<BR>Individual banks have the right to exchange or not exhange punts for euros based on the bank's own decision.<BR><BR>Old currency can still be exchanged at national banks for a long time to come.<BR>No deadline has yet been set in Ireland for exchanging Irish national currency at a branch of Irish National Bank.<BR><BR>I do not know if merchants will accept them any longer or not. http://www.euro.ecb.int/en/section1/timetable.IE.html<BR>The above is a source of info.<BR><BR><BR>