I've found 7 old pound coins.....

[PupInAPram]

.....when cleaning out a drawer. Are they for the bin, or do they still have a use?

Oh we have about a tenners worth here. Will watch with interest

I’m pretty sure a bank will swap them for you?

Bank may swap or use as trolley coins?

Think you can take them to an actual bank branch as long as it’s a nominal amount.

www.yourmoney.com/saving-banking/130-million-old-1-coins-still-out-there-what-to-do-if-you-have-one/

Slightly old article but imagine it still holds true.

You can pay them into your bank.

My Asda trollies are not locked, thank goodness. I will maybe try to pay them in, although my nearest bank branch is in town, so I'd have to pay to park there. Mmmm, wonder if I can use them in a car park machine 🤔

I think taking them to the bank is probably the best option (we found an old paper £10 in my DS shorts and took to the bank)
I think they are a different weight to current pound coins so might not work in machines

I consider them retired rather than old.

DH found about 10 or 12 of them, I just went into the local bank branch and they gave me new ones.

@PupInAPram

My Asda trollies are not locked, thank goodness. I will maybe try to pay them in, although my nearest bank branch is in town, so I'd have to pay to park there. Mmmm, wonder if I can use them in a car park machine 🤔

You don't have to rush (unless you really need the £7) so you could just hang onto them until you are near a bank.

@TargusEasting 🤣. Yep, I guess take them to the bank or post office next time I happen to be going. Bonus money! 😁

Bank! Or during lockdown our lovely ringtons man swapped notes for us. He is at the bank regularly so was happy to swap.

There was a sign up in one of the aecadws in Skegness last week saying they exchanged old pound coins.

That would be an arcade, not an aecadws

You might be able to pay them into a bank account.

Omg people actually consider throwing money in the bin. Ridiculous.

Put in the bank or at the very least give it to charity

or at the very least give it to charity

My local charity shop refused to take an old paper £5 I was going to donate to them. The manager said he couldn't bank it. I knew he was wrong but wasn't going to argue!

@Marmite27

That would be an arcade, not an aecadws

That's a seriously impressive typo

@Laszlomydarling I only said that because I assumed that so many years after the change, banks would not accept them. If so, that would have been like donating my rubbish!

And yet when I typed it out specifically it autocorrected to arcade

you can take them to the post office and get them changed there too for free or paid into your bank account if you take your debit card.

If you ever shop at Iceland enough to need a trolley, my branch still has a trolley that only accepts old style
pounds lol

you can always cash in old notes and coins but only get face value if it is seriously old like a large white pound note from 1930's it's value is far greater than a pound and can be sold for much more; but the bank of england would still give you a pound

You've got super powers, @Marmite27 - we weren't even on the New Platform Of Doom when you did that. 😀

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