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Needing Bank of England clarification please
re Which old £1 notes can/cannot be exchanged at my Metro Bank branch? At 81yrs old I'm still targeted by [MANY known to me] both address-and-name ID multi-fraudsters - ever since 2002. But not having enough savings to tackle them in Court I've lost several thousands of pounds sterling within a life blighted by those trying to gain ownership of my home. Even Thames Water "experts" are still either ?criminal and/or under their appalling influence ever since 2005-06. This week my current account [since 2018] "I'M THE MANAGER" person at Wimbledon's Metro Bank branch firmly informed me that his bank was NOT able to exchange two old £1 notes for eg a modern £5 note if I also added three modern £1 coins to them too... His ONLY explanation for being unable to help being that the notes' serial numbers [ET67 246495 and Y26H 153134] were "NOT ON THE LIST" as being possible to accept at Metro Bank... Having been with this branch since December 2018 I had only just found the £1 notes amongst my daughter's belongings. And I explained she had died [26yrs old] in Sept.2002. And in this criminally-affected century for me, I did not wish to waste any penny; as my son's and my home is now being regularly damaged too. PLEASE CAN YOU TELL ME what your current rules are re [my only current account] Metro Bank with regard to exchanging bank notes which DO NOT LOOK LIKE FAKES AT ALL TO ME? I had always understood that there could be no problem with this. Yet the self-proclaimed "MANAGER" had also said to me I must: "CONTACT THE BANK OF ENGLAND"!!! from MJ [Mrs M J Tirimo London SW18 Wed.02/07/2025]