Old threepenny bit to become new pound coin

[cesare]

Pogo bump

 

[Lazy Llama]

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[kabbes]

Needs the UKIP logo on the back.

 

[Teaboy]

Should have made it to exactly the same weight and dimensions as the 1 euro coin just to troll the kippers.

 

[campanula]

supposedly referring to it as 'the Gideon'

I fecking doubt it.

 

[kabbes]

Put Jimmy Savile on it as a permanent reminder to us all.

 

[ViolentPanda]

also, pound coins have a pleasing shape and weight and solidity. Like pirate treasure.

£2 coins doubly so!

I understand the need to replace, but it's a shame.

It smacks a bit of changing the coin's shape so it looks less like a Euro, to me.

 

[DotCommunist]

I'm a big fan of angular coins, its why I like the 50p and the 20p

I just wish the coin boffins would be more adventurous. Rhomboid pennies! Dodecahedron pounds! Notes printed portrait rather than landscape!

 

[ViolentPanda]

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

What if it's a coin commemorating Janus?

 

[kabbes]

Random shapes so that you have to peer closely at the actual number written on it

 

[wiskey]

I think now might be a good time to re-train as a vending machine engineer.

 

[Crispy]

I can't tell from the photos if it has flat edges or if it's a curve of constant width (madness if it's not). It has to be the same diameter as the existing coin, or all the vending machines and shopping trolleys will need updating.

 

[wiskey]

I can't tell from the photos if it has flat edges or if it's a curve of constant width (madness if it's not). It has to be the same diameter as the existing coin, or all the vending machines and shopping trolleys will need updating.

Hence my previous post...

 

[Crispy]

Hence my previous post...

Yep. I think I started mine before yours, but delayed myself by going to look up the proper name for those shapes

While we're talking coins, it baffles me that we don't have numerals on the coin any more. Must be well confusing for people who can't read english.

 

[wiskey]

Well I have learned all about curves of constant width

 

[friedaweed]

"While the Queen's head will be on the obverse side of the coin ... there will be a public competition to decide the image on the other other side" http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-26632863

Suggestions?

Yer mum

 

[Teaboy]

While we're talking coins, it baffles me that we don't have numerals on the coin any more. Must be well confusing for people who can't read english.

A cursory glance in my pocket shows some 1p, 10p and 20p all have numerals on them. Maybe they're old coins being phased out?

 

[Crispy]

A cursory glance in my pocket shows some 1p, 10p and 20p all have numerals on them. Maybe they're old coins being phased out?

I mean the new ones with the coat of arms

 

[Teaboy]

Yes you're right. That is rubbish and pretty arrogant to boot.

 

[NoXion]

I don't like the new designs as shown in Crispy's post (#78). It's trying too hard to be clever, and as a result looks like crap because the vast majority of the time you won't see the coins arranged in that manner.

 

[SpookyFrank]

yes. though fortunately the shape will help differentiate it from the £2, in a way that the 1 and 2 euro coin don't, iirc.

Euro coins are shit. Impossible to tell them apart without pawing through them one at a time.

 

[Roadkill]

Is this Osborne can come up with to deflect attention away from his grubby budget today?

Mary Dejevsky (whoever she is) thinks so.

 

[SpineyNorman]

"While the Queen's head will be on the obverse side of the coin ... there will be a public competition to decide the image on the other other side" http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-26632863

Suggestions?

Barry Mainwaring.

 

[editor]

I rather like it, but then I remember the old thrupenny bit.

 

[Crispy]

Hang on it can't be a curve of constant width because it has an even number of sides >_<

 

[mauvais]

Motivation behind the move:

 

[Quartz]

Threepenny bit? I guess that's inflation for you.

 

[8115]

I like it.

An estimated 3% of pound coins are fake. Makes filling up fruit machines a very frustrating job.

 

[DairyQueen]

A new £1 coin, billed by the Royal Mint as the "most secure coin in the world", is to be introduced in 2017.

... and how long before we get the first "BULGARIAN POUND COIN COUNTERFEIT EPIDEMIC"?

 

[Pickman's model]

"While the Queen's head will be on the obverse side of the coin ... there will be a public competition to decide the image on the other other side" http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-26632863

Suggestions?

a guillotine