Old threepenny bit to become new pound coin

[Lord Camomile]

I think you might have a leak

 

[moody]

teen wolf!

 

[moody]

New £1 coin to be introduced to combat counterfeiting

I watched the bbc once and they said around 80% of pound coins in circulation are fake!

 

[quimcunx]

I watched the bbc once and they said around 80% of pound coins in circulation are fake!

This seems unlikely.

 

[moody]

ok, it is one in twenty or 5%

fuck knows where 80% came from

 

[moody]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7988001.stm

& how to spot a fake....

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7628930.stm

 

[cesare]

I loved the thruppenny bit when I was a kid. I like it

 

[moody]

sharpen up the corners and use it as a ninja death throwing thingy

 

[kittyP]

TITS!

 

[8ball]

STOP FUCKING WITH THE MONEY YOU CUNTS!!!!

 

[Wilf]

you can't have two heads! that's against all the rules of coins in the whole world ever! probably.

What have the Romans ever done for us?

 

[T & P]

I see instead of being round the new coin has 12 sides. The Illuminati happens to be controlled by 12 bloodlines. I rest my case.

 

[shagnasty]

the bbc say the threepenny coin ,but every body knows it's the thrupenny bit

 

[J Ed]

Ugly

 

[Dr. Furface]

It'll cost a fortune to convert all those shopping trolleys!

 

[Corax]

apparently, 3% of pound coins are fake!

I suppose if I was to guess, I'd probably think they're changing it because of the prevalence of counterfeit coins.

It's not counterfeiting, it's devolved quantative easing.

 

[albionism]

 

[DotCommunist]

I wish the queen would hurry up and die

 

[strung out]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-26632863

I've always wanted to get my hands on some threepenny bits

 

[Balbi]

Edges. Weight. Ouch.

 

[strung out]

Supermarkets across the country will be cursing at having to replace their trolley fleet

 

[nino_savatte]

I fear it'll be worth the same amount as 3d.

 

[Onket]

It looks great.

 

[fishfinger]

I fear it'll be worth the same amount as 3d.

Or even less:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/CHOICE-BR...37-THREEPENCE-3d-LUCIDO-8-COINS-/251472797800

 

[King Biscuit Time]

3d on the day the Thruppeny Bit came out (1953) would be worth 30p today.

(I love the Historic Inflation Calculator)

 

[wayward bob]

if i was queenie i'd be well pissed off about the double chin

 

[Belushi]

They're always in bloody profile, one with the old bat staring out at us would make a change.

 

[Belushi]

Coins with her Dad's face on were circulating well into the early eighties, even when she pops her clogs we'll have her grumpy visage in our pockets for another thirty years.

 

[King Biscuit Time]

if i was queenie i'd be well pissed off about the double chin

She's got nothing to complain about. Look at the state of her on the £20 - more airbrushed than the cover of Nuts.

 

[Teaboy]

Is this Osborne can come up with to deflect attention away from his grubby budget today? A new coin that no one's asked for and there appears to be little reason for (apart from to piss on vending machine companies).