The new £1 coin.

[classic33]

I'm convinced the new pound coin is just yet more fake news... that is until i actually see one.

 

[Deleted member 35268]

My dad says he's got the threpenny bits ?

 

[Beebo]

I'm convinced the new pound coin is just yet more fake news... that is until i actually see one.

I haven't seen one yet either.

 

[DaveReading]

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You would think they could have made the writing a bit easier to read.

 

[wheresthetorch]

You would think they could have made the writing a bit easier to read.

Her Maj is all blurry and upside down as well. Has she been drinking?

 

[subaqua]

Hands up if anyone else can claim that some of their best friends are numismatists...

Does that mean they use Henry hoovers for ... well ... you know

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

Saw one last week. Very reminiscent of the thrupenny bit I remember from childhood. Hologram is impressive, who knows how they make that. Yes, I know, that's just the point.
A work colleague used one in the Forestry Commission car park machine at Innerleithen last weekend, accepted it no problem.

 

[Drago]

That's no surprise. The Forestry Commission are money grabbing bar stewards.

 

[potsy]

Got a couple of them yesterday, seem ok to me, bigger and fatter than the current 20p so cannot see them being mixed up.

 

[DaveReading]

I also heard of one person spending silly money for a test coin without realising it's not legal tender.

Had they planned to spend it, then ?

 

[MossCommuter]

The Royal Mint issue test coins to the various companies who make vending machines, parking meters, self-service tills etc. months in advance of the issue of new coins to allow them to make adjustments to their mechanisms and roll out an update plan for machines in the field. About 200,000 of the new £1 test coins were issued last year to these companies (as well as to banks) and some of them have made their way on to eBay, where they've sold for silly money.

People are paying stupid money for coins dated 2016 - not realising there's several billion of them going into circulation. I also heard of one person spending silly money for a test coin without realising it's not legal tender.

The £2 trial coin from 1994 is, apparently, one of the most collectible British coins.

 

[classic33]

The £2 trial coin from 1994 is, apparently, one of the most collectible British coins.

Got two.

 

[jefmcg]

My wife's bank and costa card both threw a wobbler after she started keeping them in her phone cover thing.

That will be the magnetic strip (the black bar on the back of the card) being affected by the magnet, not the chip.