Pound coins and shopping trolleys

[slowmotion]

Radio or magnetic?

I can picture you now, handheld magnetic compass in hand checking your trolley every time you go.

Knowledge is power.

 

[classic33]

How about two entire rolls of aluminium turkey foil to block their fiendish radio signals and a grounding connection to a drain cover??? Worth a try!

If it's magnets, near field connectivity should still trip it!

That's why there has to be a maximum field strength. Might interfere with a car.

 

[Lonestar]

How long are the old £1 coins going to be valid for?

Just looked it up,it's October.

 

[jefmcg]

How long are the old £1 coins going to be valid for?

Just looked it up,it's October.

After that you have to take them to the bank (but I bet supermarkets will still take them for the good will)

 

[classic33]

After that you have to take them to the bank (but I bet supermarkets will still take them for the good will)

Or their shopping trolley's!

 

[snorri]

What are we supposed to put in shopping trolleys when the round pound coins are withdrawn from circulation in October?

Don't know, don't care, but I'm sure some supermarket chap or chapess will have it all sorted out on the day so that they can relieve me of my money in the usual manner.

 

[subaqua]

Don't know, don't care, but I'm sure some supermarket chap or chapess will have it all sorted out on the day so that they can relieve me of my money in the usual manner.

They don't relieve you though, you pay a £1 returnable deposit like when you use a locker in a sports centre , but not the Pool at Haven Filey where it's a quid each time you lock the farkin locker .

 

[GM]

Looks like I won't be able to use my special little disc any more. Found it in a returned trolley several years ago, I keep it in the car just for shopping.......

 

[snorri]

They don't relieve you though, you pay a £1 returnable deposit like when you use a locker in a sports centre , but not the Pool at Haven Filey where it's a quid each time you lock the farkin locker .

I actually meant relieve me of money in exchange for foodstuffs.

 

[subaqua]

I actually meant relieve me of money in exchange for foodstuffs.

I think the phrase you want in that case is rob you blind !!!

 

[ufkacbln]

You can spend a €1. Most coin operated machines accept them as a £1 coin.

IIRC

There was an issue with the security of Euro Coins

If you have a single mint then tolerances of the pressing process can be quite tight so the magnetic value, weight and shape are accurate

With the Euro being more widely produced there was a difference between mints

Hence the tolerances were lower, the production of forgeries easier and the issues of being used as other coins

 

[ufkacbln]

Looks like I won't be able to use my special little disc any more. Found it in a returned trolley several years ago, I keep it in the car just for shopping.......

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..... I thought the Police had rounded up all the members of that club and locked them all away

 

[GM]

..... I thought the Police had rounded up all the members of that club and locked them all away

Shhhh!.... .... us mason's can get away with murder!

 

[MontyVeda]

This is what i use instead of pound coin for releasing trolleys...

...there's usually a couple floating around in bottom of the corned beef box.

 

[Colin_P]

...there's usually a couple floating around in bottom of the corned beef box.

That is what leads to shopping trolleys sinking to the bottom of the local canal. I'd never throw a trolley in the canal with a quid in it.