Old threepenny bit to become new pound coin

[ddraig]

pants
i got a load of current £ coins stashed as savings

 

[Corax]

pants
i got a load of current £ coins stashed as savings

IIRC they usually remain exchangeable at banks for many years after going out of circulation when they've made changes before.

 

[ddraig]

ai

 

[Corax]

ai

Wut?

 

[classicdish]

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

"Bermuda, Cape Verde, Colombia, Israel, Switzerland, and Venezuela have adopted vertically oriented currency." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banknote#Vertical_orientation

 

[wayward bob]

50 million pesos? (((inflation)))

 

[farmerbarleymow]

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

I like the new design, and hopefully people might refer to it as a thrupenny bit rather than the boring 'pound coin'. That would be a good thing.

 

[ViolentPanda]

I like the new design, and hopefully people might refer to it as a thrupenny bit rather than the boring 'pound coin'. That would be a good thing.

I have to admit that I quite like the feel of a warm thruppenny bit in each hand.

 

[Mr.Bishie]

Never really checked for fake quid coins before, but the stats say 1 in 4 is fake. So with 5 quid in pound coins in my pocket I checked. One fake

 

[DotCommunist]

the crafty bastards age the fakes using sharp sand and a cement mixer as well. Seems like a lot of effort to go to for a faked quid but then if you have a thousand fake ones at production cost 50p on the pound, you're 500 up. So I suppose it is worth it

 

[wayward bob]

Never really checked for fake quid coins before, but the stats say 1 in 4 is fake. So with 5 quid in pound coins in my pocket I checked. One fake

how can you tell?

 

[Mr.Bishie]

how can you tell?

Colour is slightly lighter, but the dead give away is that front & back don't match - one side is upside down, iyswim?

 

[wayward bob]

aha gonna empty out the kids money boxes and see what i turn up

 

[wayward bob]

7/7 matching front/back. maybe the fakers got lucky, they must get them the right way up by chance at least some of the time

 

[Mr.Bishie]

7/7 matching front/back. maybe the fakers got lucky, they must get them the right way up by chance at least some of the time

My example is just one of many.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...-youve-got-a-fake-one-pound-coin-9201520.html

 

[DotCommunist]

easiest way to spot the fake is use it on a vending machine. If it drops through to the change drawer, its probably shonky.

and licking one side and trying again NEVER works. Why do people do that.

 

[Mr.Bishie]

and licking one side and trying again NEVER works. Why do people do that.

The same people who kick tyres.

 

[jakethesnake]

I remember that when £1 coins first went in to circulation two old 5p pieces glued together and sprayed gold would fool a lot of people. I was at a festival (Treworgy, last of the free festivals) where it seemed that 50% of the £1 coins were moody.