How do you write

£12,300.00

£12,300.00 I think. Cheques are always written with words and numbers - I can see why that is a good idea!

And this, I guess, is why we had to actually write out the number on cheques.

Bring back 2/6d. (Not that you could buy much with it now).

£12,300.00

Greenfinch

The first. Last week DG’s friend’s Mum put £1,000 into her daughter’s school lunch account because she forgot the decimal point.That will keep her going with school lunches till she leaves🤣

I was taught that the comma is correct in English, and the full stop in Danish and German.

No idea what is correct now, but your bank or accountant should know.

Septimia

Surely £12,300.00 is the correct British way of writing it. But other countries (and therefore currencies) do use a " . " instead of the comma, I believe.

Yes, it varies according to which country you are in, You need to be alert!

this is a random number, not what we charge!

Tizliz

Not 12k, that would be nice! But in the thousands - just some people can’t believe the price.

so it is twelve thousand +
isn't it ?
now i'm utterly confused.
why do you say not 12K, OP ?

Thee first, ….with a comma

Surely £12,300.00 is the correct British way of writing it. But other countries (and therefore currencies) do use a " . " instead of the comma, I believe.

I read it as "twelve thousand three hundred pounds (and no pence)".

wellbeck That's how I read it.

£12,300.00

copied and pasted from OP.
does not that mean twelve thousand, and three hundred pounds and zero pence ??
that's how i read it.
am i wrong.

Not 12k, that would be nice! But in the thousands - just some people can’t believe the price.

just realised, OP's goods are much more expensive !
what do you deal in, diamonds ?!
anyway, so twelve thousand three hundred.
do americans say a hundred and twenty three hundreds ??
surely not.
sounds a bit confusing, with the word hundred twice.
i rarely have ever had to read or speak v large numbers.

most typewriters etc would not have had a decimal point, floating in the middle of the line, so a full stop was the nearest equivalent.
but that not the point ! the OP was querying.
for high value items and to avoid any possible confusion, how about writing it in words also.
although, even there, americans say twelve hundred, where we tend to say one thousand two hundred.
but i can remember at school in middx long long ago that we also said twelve hundred . . .

So I learn it’s a full stop not a decimal point- Marydoll is of course right - but we needed to define our terms!

Marydoll

Sorry to be a pedant, but the secondary school maths teachers, I worked with, insisted the decimal point goes in the middle,
£12000·00

A decimal point goes in the centre of a number.

Surely that depends on the context of the number.
If ££ and pence (even 00) are involved, the decimal point goes before the pence- as established at decimalisation back in 1971
From a guide by the University of Edinburgh
Money
Use the £ symbol, or p as an abbreviation of pence. Write out other currencies in full where possible.
Use the pound symbol before the number, with pounds and pence separated by a full stop
For amounts under £1, use p as an abbreviation for pence
Examples
The cost of replacing a card is £5.00
If you return your library book late, you will be charged 75p per day per book.

Just to be awkward I use a space and a colon- £12 000:00 though I don't write such big numbers often!

£12,000.00 or just £12,000

Whereas here in France we have a comma instead of a decimal point!

Sorry to be a pedant, but the secondary school maths teachers, I worked with, insisted the decimal point goes in the middle,
£12000·00

A decimal point goes in the centre of a number.

A comma within the ££££ and a decimal point before the .00 “pence” - standard practice since decimalisation.

Informally, I’d put £12K.