To remind you all about the new pound coin that comes in next year

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Because I was clueless about this, somehow, and I have been merrily posting my £1 coins into DD's terramundi pot (you know, the money boxes that you have to smash when they are full). By the time it's full enough to smash, the bloody things will have been out of circulation for about 5 years!

I thought DP was winding me up, but sadly the internet is well and truly with him on this one, so I just thought I'd flag it here in case anyone else has been doing something similar.

What about trolleys and trolley tokens?

For March-Sept, it says that customers can accept both coins.

But would they only give out the new coin in change?

I was going to say, I'm sure this was in the news over a year ago, I remember talking about it with my old colleagues.
The old ones won't immediately be useless though when the new ones begin to be released, and the date will be announced well in advance when the old ones will no longer be legal tender.
P.s OP you can cheat with the terramundi pots by using a knife in the slot to help the coins slide out. So you could swap the pounds for a note or whatever, if you have to.

The earliest Google kicks up, on page 1, is last December!

I know we have discussed it a bit, the whole "Who is old enough to remember the old thruppenny bit?" conversation has been had many times over the last year or so!

Oooh thanks for the knife tip!!

Must make sure DP and DD don't watch and learn...

I'd not heard about this either.

Given that parking meters and vending machines usually take a variety of different coins, I'd have thought some of them would be able to add an extra type (was it hard for many of them to be adapted to accept the £2?)

Our sainsbury changed it's trolley slot thing recently... wonder if it is designed to work with both old and new coins?

It will be like when they switched from pound notes to coins. No hassle at all really.

To clarify my point about it being a waste of government spending - I personally think it would make more sense to get rid of cash completely.
But thats me being wild and controversial.

Yup. I realised this a while ago. The dc's money boxes will be cleared out early next year (into bank and spent) and then we'll start stain with new money.

Did you not know about the knife trick, Op? Are you sure that your DP and DC's also don't know ( and haven't told you)? You wouldn't be the first unsuspecting person to find considerably less in your money box than you thought you would.
PS - if the slots wide enough for a £2 coin, then you will find a palette knife considerably more effective than a table knife........so I'm told