That part of the mechanism will be changed/updated. Most take lots of different coins anyway so this is just another change.
The vending machine firms or at least the owners will be happy with the change as it is driven in part by the huge number of forged £1 coins in circulation.
Pound coins are 30 years old??? No way can that be true surely...
Yeah although the last Series D £1 note didn't go out of circulation until 1988. Monday 15 February 1971 was Decimalisation Day. I spent the weekend (incl Valentine's Day) converting handwritten bank ledgers from £sd to £p. What fun that was!
I remember when pound coins first came out and were accepted by cigarette machines. We knocked up crude moulds, filled them with water to make ice coins, crossed the road to the pub and quickly fed them into the machine in exchange for packets of B&H. The cash tray would be just full of water when they emptied it. I'm sure these machines wouldn't fall for such crude methods these days though..............
To those of us who are pre-decimal they look familiar.
We were given plastic decimal coins to take home to help our parents and grandparents. My grandparents never got hold of it, they were all born in the 19thC
And we had to suffer Metrification too!
I learnt all about inches, feet and yards at Primary school and then had the ridiculous millimetres and centimetres suddenly thrust upon me at secondary school.
Pound coins are 30 years old??? No way can that be true surely...
You're right it's not true. 31 years old this year.
So 30 years old until the anniversary date then?
Nope.
Was introduced in 1983. That makes it 31 this year. If you were born in 1983, and you clearly were not, much later I'd say, you too would be 31 this year.
To those of us who are pre-decimal they look familiar.
We were given plastic decimal coins to take home to help our parents and grandparents. My grandparents never got hold of it, they were all born in the 19thC
And we had to suffer Metrification too!
I learnt all about inches, feet and yards at Primary school and then had the ridiculous millimetres and centimetres suddenly thrust upon me at secondary school.
You're lucky you went to a secondary not public school. You'd have definitely had a few inches thrust upon you.
Pound coins are 30 years old??? No way can that be true surely...
Yeah although the last Series D £1 note didn't go out of circulation until 1988. Monday 15 February 1971 was Decimalisation Day. I spent the weekend (incl Valentine's Day) converting handwritten bank ledgers from £sd to £p. What fun that was!
Did you just have to convert the s&d to p or did the £s change as well?
Pretty sure Riviera makes mathematical errors just in order to argue with someone!
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The vending machine firms or at least the owners will be happy with the change as it is driven in part by the huge number of forged £1 coins in circulation.
Monday 15 February 1971 was Decimalisation Day. I spent the weekend (incl Valentine's Day) converting handwritten bank ledgers from £sd to £p. What fun that was!
"I saw one of those old white fivers the other day"
Don't worry about Tango as he is at best Rolf Harris to your Leonardo.
And we had to suffer Metrification too!
I learnt all about inches, feet and yards at Primary school and then had the ridiculous millimetres and centimetres suddenly thrust upon me at secondary school.
Was introduced in 1983. That makes it 31 this year.
If you were born in 1983, and you clearly were not, much later I'd say, you too would be 31 this year.
Pretty sure Riviera makes mathematical errors just in order to argue with someone!
Thanks for the clarification.