sql local db unable to interpret £ €

Question

I have a script that creates a sql localdb (2014), creates a table and puts some data into it. If I run this script in SSMS against a full SQL server 2014 instance, it completes fine and all the data in the table looks as I'd expect it to.

However, when I run this via SQLCMD or a Visual Studio app, the £ and € in the strings are interpreted and stored as ? in the database.

I've checked the collation, and tried forcing both the database and/or the columns in question to use the same collation as my working server, but it's still not storing the £ and € correctly.

Any Ideas anyone?

This is a cutdown version of the code, but it hopefully gets the point across:

IF (EXISTS (SELECT name FROM master.dbo.sysdatabases WHERE ('[' + name + ']' = 'Hestia' OR name = 'Hestia'))) 
BEGIN 
  ALTER DATABASE [Hestia] SET SINGLE_USER WITH ROLLBACK Immediate
  DROP DATABASE [Hestia]
END
GO
CREATE DATABASE [Hestia] 
--Collate Latin1_General_CI_AS
GO
ALTER DATABASE [Hestia] SET COMPATIBILITY_LEVEL = 100
GO
IF (1 = FULLTEXTSERVICEPROPERTY('IsFullTextInstalled'))
begin
EXEC [Hestia].[dbo].[sp_fulltext_database] @action = 'enable'
end
GO
ALTER DATABASE [Hestia] SET ANSI_NULL_DEFAULT ON 
GO
ALTER DATABASE [Hestia] SET ANSI_NULLS ON 
GO
ALTER DATABASE [Hestia] SET ANSI_PADDING ON 
GO
ALTER DATABASE [Hestia] SET ANSI_WARNINGS ON 
GO
ALTER DATABASE [Hestia] SET ARITHABORT ON 
GO
ALTER DATABASE [Hestia] SET AUTO_CLOSE OFF 
GO
ALTER DATABASE [Hestia] SET AUTO_CREATE_STATISTICS ON 
GO
ALTER DATABASE [Hestia] SET AUTO_SHRINK OFF 
GO
ALTER DATABASE [Hestia] SET AUTO_UPDATE_STATISTICS ON 
GO
ALTER DATABASE [Hestia] SET CURSOR_CLOSE_ON_COMMIT OFF 
GO
ALTER DATABASE [Hestia] SET CURSOR_DEFAULT  LOCAL 
GO
ALTER DATABASE [Hestia] SET CONCAT_NULL_YIELDS_NULL ON 
GO
ALTER DATABASE [Hestia] SET NUMERIC_ROUNDABORT OFF 
GO
ALTER DATABASE [Hestia] SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON 
GO
ALTER DATABASE [Hestia] SET RECURSIVE_TRIGGERS OFF 
GO
ALTER DATABASE [Hestia] SET  DISABLE_BROKER 
GO
ALTER DATABASE [Hestia] SET AUTO_UPDATE_STATISTICS_ASYNC OFF 
GO
ALTER DATABASE [Hestia] SET DATE_CORRELATION_OPTIMIZATION OFF 
GO
ALTER DATABASE [Hestia] SET TRUSTWORTHY OFF 
GO
ALTER DATABASE [Hestia] SET ALLOW_SNAPSHOT_ISOLATION OFF 
GO
ALTER DATABASE [Hestia] SET PARAMETERIZATION SIMPLE 
GO
ALTER DATABASE [Hestia] SET READ_COMMITTED_SNAPSHOT OFF 
GO
ALTER DATABASE [Hestia] SET HONOR_BROKER_PRIORITY OFF 
GO
ALTER DATABASE [Hestia] SET RECOVERY FULL 
GO
ALTER DATABASE [Hestia] SET  MULTI_USER 
GO
ALTER DATABASE [Hestia] SET PAGE_VERIFY NONE  
GO
ALTER DATABASE [Hestia] SET DB_CHAINING OFF 
GO
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[Denomination](
    [Id] [int] NOT NULL,
    [Name] [nvarchar](50) NOT NULL,
    [Currency] [nvarchar](50) NOT NULL,
    [Value] [decimal](18, 4) NOT NULL
 CONSTRAINT [PK_Denominations] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED 
(
    [DenominationId] ASC
)WITH (PAD_INDEX = OFF, STATISTICS_NORECOMPUTE = OFF, IGNORE_DUP_KEY = OFF, ALLOW_ROW_LOCKS = ON, ALLOW_PAGE_LOCKS = ON) ON [PRIMARY]
) ON [PRIMARY]
GO
INSERT INTO [dbo].[Denomination] ([Id], [Name], [Currency], [Value]) VALUES (7, N'£1', N'GBP', 1.0000)
INSERT INTO [dbo].[Denomination] ([Id], [Name], [Currency], [Value]) VALUES (8, N'£2', N'GBP', 2.0000)
INSERT INTO [dbo].[Denomination] ([Id], [Name], [Currency], [Value]) VALUES (9, N'£5', N'GBP', 5.0000)
INSERT INTO [dbo].[Denomination] ([Id], [Name], [Currency], [Value]) VALUES (25, N'€1', N'EUR', 1.0000)
INSERT INTO [dbo].[Denomination] ([Id], [Name], [Currency], [Value]) VALUES (26, N'€2', N'EUR', 2.0000)
INSERT INTO [dbo].[Denomination] ([Id], [Name], [Currency], [Value]) VALUES (27, N'€5', N'EUR', 5.0000)

and app code:

public static ActionResult CreateDatabase(Session session)
        {
          ActionResult result = ActionResult.NotExecuted;
          session.Log("Begin Create Hestia Database");
          try
          {
            //System.Diagnostics.Debugger.Launch();

            ISqlLocalDbApi localDb = new SqlLocalDbApiWrapper();
            if (localDb.IsLocalDBInstalled())
            {
              ISqlLocalDbProvider provider = new SqlLocalDbProvider();
              ISqlLocalDbInstance instance = provider.GetOrCreateInstance(@"MyLocalDB");

              // Check it's running
              if (!instance.GetInstanceInfo().IsRunning)
              {
                session.Log("Starting MyLocalDB instance");
                instance.Start();
              }


              using (SqlConnection connection = instance.CreateConnection())
              {
                connection.Open();

                try
                {
                  // These two scripts are linked as content in our project
                  // So WiX bundles them into the temp folder we run in
                  string createScript = File.ReadAllText(@"1. Create.sql");
                  string dataScript = File.ReadAllText(@"2. StaticData.sql");

                  // Use a SMO server connection because it's happy
                  // with scripts containing GOs etc.
                  Server server = new Server(new ServerConnection(connection));

                  // Execute both scripts
                  session.Log("Executing create script");
                  server.ConnectionContext.ExecuteNonQuery(createScript);
                  session.Log("Executed create script");
                  session.Log("Executing static data script");
                  server.ConnectionContext.ExecuteNonQuery(dataScript);
                  session.Log("Executed static data script");
                }
                finally
                {
                  connection.Close();
                }
              }

            }
            else
            {
              session.Log("LocalDB Not Installed");
            }

            result = ActionResult.Success;
          }
          catch (Exception e)
          {
            System.Diagnostics.Debugger.Launch();
            var innerex = e.InnerException;
            var innerex2 = e.InnerException.InnerException == null ? String.Empty : e.InnerException.InnerException.ToString();
            session.Log(string.Format("Error: {0}", e.Message + innerex + innerex2));
            result = ActionResult.Failure;
          }

          session.Log("End Create MyLocalDB Database");
          return result;
        }