davieG Posted 31 March 2016 Posted 31 March 2016 New 12-sided £1 coins start being made by Royal Mint 4 hours ago Image copyrightPAPocket money may look a bit different this time next year because the £1 coin is changing. The new one will have 12 sides instead of a smooth, rounded edge. It's the first time the pound coin has been changed in more than 30 years. The Royal Mint, who produce all of our coins, say the new design will make pound coins harder to illegally copy. Image copyrightPAThe coins will not be available to use until March 2017. But they've already started to be made by the Royal Mint with 4,000 coins being created every minute. The current coins will not be out of date as soon as the new ones are released. There will be a six month period when both the old and the new pound coins can be used.
ScouseFox Posted 31 March 2016 Posted 31 March 2016 nice. there's so many fake quids on the go so a good decision really. also quids are the shittest coins we have imo and these ones look sexier.
m4DD0gg Posted 31 March 2016 Posted 31 March 2016 Wonder if they will work in my local's lucky dip machine.
Finnaldo Posted 31 March 2016 Posted 31 March 2016 That thing has more edge than a 90s action thriller starring Keanu Reeves
DB11 Posted 31 March 2016 Posted 31 March 2016 Council's are going to be annoyed having to change all of their car parking machines! In fact every sort of payment machine
Izzy Posted 31 March 2016 Posted 31 March 2016 I still miss £1 notes. Should bring them back instead of fancy arse 12 sided coins...
Great Boos Up Posted 31 March 2016 Posted 31 March 2016 It was developed by a state of the art Royal Mint hi-tech counterfeit security team called Integrated Secure Identification Systems. In short ISIS.
AyewJoking Posted 1 April 2016 Posted 1 April 2016 Council's are going to be annoyed having to change all of their car parking machines! In fact every sort of payment machine think about the supermarket trolleys
MrSpaM Posted 1 April 2016 Posted 1 April 2016 Imagine how much this is going to cost supermarkets getting all their trolley's changed
DB11 Posted 1 April 2016 Posted 1 April 2016 They won't need whole new trolleys just change the attachment that goes on the handle. I used to work at co-op and when we got new trolleys we didn't have the £1 thing but then within a week almost half of the trolleys had gone! Some people.. So just got some people out to add the attachment on I don't think that'll be too much
Rincewind Posted 1 April 2016 Posted 1 April 2016 I have a look alike coin to use with trolleys. Fits on a keyring. If they had them at checkouts you would only need one. They would not need to change all the devices..
Samilktray Posted 1 April 2016 Posted 1 April 2016 I dare say most people just pay a quid to charity and get 1 of those trolley coins now a days.
Guest Sharpe's Fox Posted 1 April 2016 Posted 1 April 2016 Get the old bag off em and put Claudio on in a special Leicester limited edition.
Countryfox Posted 1 April 2016 Posted 1 April 2016 Get the old bag off em and put Claudio on in a special Leicester limited edition. Its the Tower for you Sharpey !!
DB11 Posted 1 April 2016 Posted 1 April 2016 Good point maybe supermarkets will just charge £1 for a token that fits into it rather than replace them
davieG Posted 1 April 2016 Author Posted 1 April 2016 Maybe they'll still work in most machines as I'm sure they will have had discussions with slot machine associations
Great Boos Up Posted 1 April 2016 Posted 1 April 2016 Most machines calculate size, weight, density and magnetism, hence the two metal £2 coin. It's harder to replicate as the metals are forged in specific way to give a magnetic signature. Coin machines will just need a re set. Shopping trollies probably wont need a change, hence the 12 sides, it's basically the same size and weight.
separator Posted 1 April 2016 Posted 1 April 2016 The coin handling systems I work with will need a hardware change as the coin validator module can't be reprogrammed in-situ. Just a straight swap of the module but it's all additional income for my employer... happy days.
Great Boos Up Posted 1 April 2016 Posted 1 April 2016 The coin handling systems I work with will need a hardware change as the coin validator module can't be reprogrammed in-situ. Just a straight swap of the module but it's all additional income for my employer... happy days. I've no idea on coin validator modules, and I was really pleased with my post. So perhaps I'm just talking shite! But I'm right on the shopping trollies though right? Give me that ? Ps, is your company on the stock market, I might invest a few pound coins.
separator Posted 1 April 2016 Posted 1 April 2016 I've no idea on coin validator modules, and I was really pleased with my post. So perhaps I'm just talking shite! But I'm right on the shopping trollies though right? Give me that ? Ps, is your company on the stock market, I might invest a few pound coins. Your post was spot on about how a coin is validated. There are some foreign coins that are so close to ours that they will get accepted in machines over here. If you ever go to Swaziland or Guatemala remember to bring some coins back.
chuck'em Posted 2 April 2016 Posted 2 April 2016 I've no idea on coin validator modules, and I was really pleased with my post. So perhaps I'm just talking shite! But I'm right on the shopping trollies though right? Give me that ? Ps, is your company on the stock market, I might invest a few pound coins. For shopping trolleys all you need is one of the keys off the side of a corned beef tin. Works every time.
AyewJoking Posted 3 April 2016 Posted 3 April 2016 does it increase their accuracy when thrown? yes but tax payers cant afford to throw them away.
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