New One Pound Coin

[JanetB]

Did you read the link for the reason why that might be?

No I didn't, but I have now

[Mandart]

Worth about as much as the old thre'penny bit....

[Posbear]

You can't beat a good pair of thrippenny bits.

[tonyreddevil]

You Can A Pair of Sixpence Bits

[Oldandintheway]

Can someone send me several thousand of these as a sample please!

[CopperLocker]

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We'll never get them out of a Scotsman's hand without the aid of a spanner now.

Supposed to make them harder to counterfeit. I think not having so many different designs on the reverse of the current coinage would help as well. Just looked at 5 one pound coins from in my pocket - none were the same.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-26632863

As a numismatist, I like it.

[theElench]

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We'll never get them out of a Scotsman's hand without the aid of a spanner now.

Supposed to make them harder to counterfeit. I think not having so many different designs on the reverse of the current coinage would help as well. Just looked at 5 one pound coins from in my pocket - none were the same.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-26632863

This will confuse my mother even more, she is struggling with dementia and often asks me if new £1 are 'real' or not. Two different patterns will get her into a right mess.

BTW start looking out for the Mint Error, I'm sure there will be one as the mint will want to get them into circulation as quick as possible and the public queing at banks to get hold of them to check always helps a bit.