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...to ask if anyone's seen one of these new pound coins yet?

141 replies

HobblingHelen · 10/04/2017 20:00

They've been out for two weeks now, I pay for a fair amount of things in cash but I just keep getting old pound coins in my change. Is it just me?

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SapphireSeptember · 11/04/2017 22:15

I saw my first one at work last week, we all gathered round the till to have a look. Grin We've been told we have to give out the old ones as change though. I can't wait to get my first one! They're so pretty. ❤

elfycat · 11/04/2017 22:18

A lady asked if I had change for a pound yesterday and I got my first one from her. I was quite excited so she threw in a 'you're a bit weird love' look for free Grin

MajesticWhine · 11/04/2017 22:23

I've had one as change in the local shop. I was unreasonably excited. And then I spent it.

UpAwfYerSeatWeeNippy · 11/04/2017 22:27

Just been travelling round the country seen a few in Sussex but none in any other places I ve been in recently. Been around Gloucestershire, Liverpool, Buckinghamshire, norfolk, North Wales and Scotland.

MrsYellowduck · 11/04/2017 22:29

I saw a machine on 31st March that ONLY TOOK NEW ONES... I was affornted as never seen one yet and the staff onsite couldnt give me one so what use is changing the machine that early?!

SpreadYourHappiness · 11/04/2017 22:31

SapphireSeptember Really? How strange! My work only has new ones now, all from the bank. The only old ones we have are from customers, and there's no preference as to which we give out.

Suitcasemum · 11/04/2017 22:31

I'm about as south as it gets in England and I've seen / had lots of them!

malmi · 11/04/2017 22:37

exLtEveDallas

If the coins were working in the machines then they obviously had been adapted. They are a different size and shape to the old ones so no machines will recognise them otherwise. Trolleys are all being updated too. Of course, the old coins are still in circulation, so they will also be recognised for the foreseeable future.

malmi · 11/04/2017 22:42

I imagine that leisure centres who don't have funds to replace all their locker coin mechanisms will just stock up on those fake pound things and sell them on the front desk.

My village sports club's pool table used to require 'tokens' from the bar. These were actually old 10p coins, they had simply never updated the mechanism when they shrunk them in the mid 90s.

MargotMoon · 11/04/2017 22:45

Apparently the 2016 ones are collectible because they were produced last year to circulate to manufacturers of machines to allow them to update them to accept the new coin. There's loads on eBay though, not seeming to be selling for loads but the article I saw said one had gone for £549!

I've checked my purse and have 5 x 2016 ones so think it's probably bollocks! Hmm

SpreadYourHappiness · 11/04/2017 22:48

But they were realeased in the north first so will trickle down gradually

Where'd you get that idea from? Confused

BubbleBed · 11/04/2017 23:04

The article I read said they were only released to 33 banks/post offices. Only one in the south east and three in London. So will take a while to filter out.

tinglyfing · 11/04/2017 23:12

Spotted in Chester!
I had two in some change from a shop.

They went again after that.

Cocktails Grin

DoubleR · 11/04/2017 23:20

I've got 20! Ok I went to the Post Office and got £20 in coins for a float on a stall I'm running so not a surprise they were the new ones. I'm in Surrey so they're more widely released. They're all 2016 though, does that mean I'm sitting on a small fortune? Grin

exLtEveDallas · 12/04/2017 06:36

@malmi If the coins were working in the machines then they obviously had been adapted. They are a different size and shape to the old ones so no machines will recognise them otherwise

No they haven't. As I said yesterday.

I checked with the owner. Apparently not all machines need adapting, some will take both happily. It's mostly mechanisms designed only for £1 coins (like lockers and supermarket trollies) rather than mechanisms designed for multi-coins. Mystery solved Smile

RufusTheRenegadeReindeer · 12/04/2017 10:31

spread

Newspaper article said most of them had been released in the north initially

Sorry just looked at my post and realised that it looked like i knew it for an absolute fact

I dont Grin

I am normally really good at saying 'its my understanding' or ' i have heard'

Smile
AnUtterIdiot · 12/04/2017 10:32

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RufusTheRenegadeReindeer · 12/04/2017 10:32

bubble Obviously read a similar article

amusedbush · 12/04/2017 10:40

I've had two in the past week.

popcornpaws · 12/04/2017 11:31

I don't have any old ones in my purse, all new ones.

Where i work we have to bag the old ones as we're given them from customers and only give out the new ones.

ihatetosay · 12/04/2017 12:23

yes thrupenny bits for all the oldies out there

ShelaghTurner · 12/04/2017 12:32

Got one! Nice and shiny but disappointed by the subtle shape of them but like the two tone metal.

Sgtmajormummy · 12/04/2017 12:43

Can I ask if the old £5 are still in circulation?

I know they're officially obsolete on 1st May and I'm coming to the UK on 20th April.
I only have one and I'd be quite happy to go to a Post Office or bank and cash it in there but I'm NOT going to keep it for posterity!

BelafonteRavenclaw · 12/04/2017 12:44

Nope, not seen one here (Wales)

5foot5 · 12/04/2017 12:55

I was going to start a thread on this. I haven't seen a single one yet, nor has anyone in our house.

I wondered if it was a regional thing - we live in the North West.

Where i work we have to bag the old ones as we're given them from customers and only give out the new ones.

Hm! Certainly the shops round here aren't doing that I am always getting old ones in my change.