New pound coin.

• Brian Dixon

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  19 March 2014     07:15262486
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  like or loath it.its coming to your pocket in 2017.
  
  http://news.sky.com/story/1228181/budget-2014-new-1-coin-is-blast-from-the-past
  
  yes a 3d piece.
• Guest 715

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  19 March 2014     08:37262487
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  So all the machines supermarket trollys etc will have to be modified for the new coin?
  Audere est facere.
• Guest 649

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  19 March 2014     08:51262490
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  It all makes more work for some one and that must be a +.
• Guest 714

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  19 March 2014     08:55262491
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  Why do we keep wasting money?
• Jan Higgins

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  19 March 2014     09:09262492
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  Considering there are an estimated 30 million (£30,000,000) fake £1 coins that are in circulation at the moment something had to be done to take them out of circulation.
  
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7628930.stm
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• Guest 649

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  19 March 2014     09:24262493
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  Millions also not real ones
• Brian Dixon

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  19 March 2014     09:31262495
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  martin,you can get a square peg in a round hole.as long as the square peg is smaller than the hole.
• Brian Dixon

  • Location: Dover
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  19 March 2014     09:35262496
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  two unrelated connections here.
  
  1/it has the same amount of sides as the 12 stars on the eu flag.
  2/we now have two [2] coins with silver middles,the same as the euro coins..
  
  is the government trying to hint as to whats coming in the future.
• Guest 1230

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  19 March 2014     09:58262499
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  New government idea, there used to be two sides to everything...now there will be twelve!!
  I'd like to agree with you but then we would both be wrong!!
• Guest 1224

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  19 March 2014     10:23262501
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  When you have Euro false pound coins will be uuseless, so you must change soon.
• Guest 714

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  19 March 2014     11:11262503
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  We'll never have the Euro
• Bob Whysman

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  19 March 2014     11:39262504
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  It looks like a threepenny bit........ Much the same value in today's terms?
  
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  Do nothing and nothing happens.
• Guest 698

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  19 March 2014     11:42262505
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  When we have Euro, hell will have frozen over.
  I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
• Brian Dixon

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  19 March 2014     12:57262509
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  hey you two we got euros now.
• Guest 698

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  20 March 2014     08:06262575
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  Yes I have some in my wallet because I regularly go to the eurozone. I also have UAE dirhams. When I go to foreign countries I use foreign money. When I'm in Britain I use British money. Simples.
  I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
• Brian Dixon

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  20 March 2014     10:10262586
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  peter,whats british money,i thought it disapeard in 1851 along with the monarchy.
• Guest 698

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  20 March 2014     10:47262587
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  Any way, I'm quite a fan of threepenny bits.
  I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
• Jan Higgins

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  20 March 2014     11:46262591
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  Is the new coin the same diameter and weight as the old £1 coin, if it is would coin machines have to be adapted?
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