In message , at
07:22:49 on Tue, 25 Oct 2005, David Biddulph
remarked:
The latest Fares guide is as far as I'm aware, the first to mention limits
on what is tendered but I think it concerns itself with coins, quoting the
Coinage Act 1971 or something similar.

Yes, page 40 of
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/fares-tick...fares-2005.pdf

£5 worth of 5p's doesn't seem too restrictive to me.
--
Roland Perry