New £1 coin

[Margaret Pilkington]

Originally Posted by Accyexplorer

How long before the edges round off though an it becomes a old one

This didn't happen with the old threepenny bits so what makes you think it will happen with the new pound coins.
According to recent reports 3% of pound coins in circulation are fake.

[Margaret Pilkington]

I use a trolley token anyway for the supermarket trolley.

[Eric]

On the Canadian toonie the design is an image of the Queen with a bear behind.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...nie_-_back.png

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ie_-_front.png

[Margaret Pilkington]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

This didn't happen with the old threepenny bits so what makes you think it will happen with the new pound coins.
According to recent reports 30% of pound coins in circulation are fake.

Correction - that should read 3%.
Didn't spot that sneaky zero until it was too late.

[Accyexplorer]

According to this I've 2 fake £1 coins in my pocket 'right now'
Counterfeit One Pound Coins | The Royal Mint

Will these criminal masterminds not just focus their efforts on another coin,say 50p-£2 coin or on notes?
I'm pretty sure it won't be long before we see snide versions of this new "most secure in the world" one.

Coin mechanisms tend to have a limited life anyway.I assume machines mechs will just be replaced as they are due. Like less said some machines are easy to configure for new coinage - it's something that happens from time to time, so good designers probably factor it in.
I kind of like this new one,it's quirky and as long as it's still bulky like the old one "it's all good" as they say.

[Accyexplorer]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

This didn't happen with the old threepenny bits so what makes you think it will happen with the new pound coins.
According to recent reports 30% of pound coins in circulation are fake.

I don't Margaret,it was my half/full baked humour
However saying that we both know our gov like to do things on the cheap,so it's possible.

[Accyexplorer]

Originally Posted by Eric

On the Canadian toonie the design is an image of the Queen with a bear behind.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...nie_-_back.png

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ie_-_front.png

I wonder if our's will have her with a bear behind,more chance of it being Dick Turpin

[Alan Varrechia]

It's not due out until 2017, so they might as well call it a 50p as that's all it will be worth by then!!:

[Accyexplorer]

Originally Posted by Alan Varrechia

It's not due out until 2017, so they might as well call it a 50p as that's all it will be worth by then!!:

On the opposite side to liz they should put the monopoly boot kicking or stamping on folk

[Margaret Pilkington]

Originally Posted by Accyexplorer

I don't Margaret,it was my half/full baked humour

Ah....I see. Maybe I need to tweak(not twerk) my funny bone a bit then.

[Less]

Coin mechs lives, are designed for the life of the machine they are in.
They can be configured according to the Country they are working in.
A coin mech designed for an American made pin table for example, can be configured to take any coins from any Country.

[DaveinGermany]

Originally Posted by DtheP47

Do you remember DinG, pre euro when the old shilling (10p) coin worked in the deutsche mark slots over there? Great for phoning home on the cheap (allegedly)

Still do in some places.

Fi'pences DtP Fag machines, phone boxes & any other Germing vending machines that took the old DM. Happy days! The troops would come back from leave with about 20 Quids worth of Fi'pences & flood the place.

Phone home or buy up all the smokes from the machines around the camps & down town, then flog 'em to the krautlings for "Proper money" at a discount of course, we weren't totally mercenary, paid for the Beer right enough, but we'd end up getting read the riot act by the GSM & the Monkeys.

[DtheP47]

Originally Posted by DaveinGermany

Fi'pences DtP

Yer right DinG five pence/shilling......

Used a load in the red phone box in Edinburgh House, Berlin reunification year