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New pound coins...
Callumcafc
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To those of us who are pre-decimal they look familiar.2
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Get yer thrupenny bits out!!0
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Pound coins are 30 years old??? No way can that be true surely...0
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"A competition will be held to decide what image to put on the "tails" side of the coin."
Here's my entry..................2 -
It definitely calls for a sword.... where's Stig?0
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I like it, but how will I get my trolley at Morrisons?1
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Nah, it'll he Wayne Rooney held aloft a la Mooro after scoring the winner in the World Cup Final...wibble, wibble...nurse!0
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what happens to every single vending machine etc?0
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That part of the mechanism will be changed/updated. Most take lots of different coins anyway so this is just another change.Elthamaddick said:what happens to every single vending machine etc?
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.1 -
The recognition systems on a lot of them are based on weight not just size.0
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Yeah although the last Series D £1 note didn't go out of circulation until 1988.Bournemouth Addick said:Pound coins are 30 years old??? No way can that be true surely...
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!0 -
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..............0
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"these women love talking about money trig"
"I saw one of those old white fivers the other day"
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The new coins come out in 2017 but the fake versions will be available earlier.3
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I know Tango got there first, but I couldn't resist.
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Great Stuff Stig.Stig said:I know Tango got there first, but I couldn't resist.
Don't worry about Tango as he is at best Rolf Harris to your Leonardo.
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Surely it should be Douchalet, not Riga on the coin Stig? We all know he has aspirations of becoming an emporer..............1
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You're right it's not true. 31 years old this year.Bournemouth Addick said:Pound coins are 30 years old??? No way can that be true surely...
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Great sub-headline from the Daily Mail in their article about the new coin- "It looks worryingly like the €uro"...... (hides head in hands)1
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So 30 years old until the anniversary date then?Riviera said:
You're right it's not true. 31 years old this year.Bournemouth Addick said:Pound coins are 30 years old??? No way can that be true surely...
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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 19thCHenry Irving said:To those of us who are pre-decimal they look familiar.
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.
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Nope.MrOneLung said:
So 30 years old until the anniversary date then?Riviera said:
You're right it's not true. 31 years old this year.Bournemouth Addick said:Pound coins are 30 years old??? No way can that be true surely...
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.0 -
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How did you do that with RD? Brilliant0
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Can I be arbitrator here? The coin was introduced on 21 April 1983 to be precise. So its 31st birthday will be next month.Riviera said:
Nope.MrOneLung said:
So 30 years old until the anniversary date then?Riviera said:
You're right it's not true. 31 years old this year.Bournemouth Addick said:Pound coins are 30 years old??? No way can that be true surely...
Was introduced in 1983. That makes it 31.
If you were born in 1983, and you clearly were not, much later I'd say, you too would be 31 this year.
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You're lucky you went to a secondary not public school. You'd have definitely had a few inches thrust upon you.Riviera said:
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 19thCHenry Irving said:To those of us who are pre-decimal they look familiar.
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.5 -
Did you just have to convert the s&d to p or did the £s change as well?cafcfan said:
Yeah although the last Series D £1 note didn't go out of circulation until 1988.Bournemouth Addick said:Pound coins are 30 years old??? No way can that be true surely...
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!
Pretty sure Riviera makes mathematical errors just in order to argue with someone!0 -
Exactly - so it is 30 years old.cafcfan said:
Can I be arbitrator here? The coin was introduced on 21 April 1983 to be precise. So its 31st birthday will be next month.Riviera said:
Nope.MrOneLung said:
So 30 years old until the anniversary date then?Riviera said:
You're right it's not true. 31 years old this year.Bournemouth Addick said:Pound coins are 30 years old??? No way can that be true surely...
Was introduced in 1983. That makes it 31.
If you were born in 1983, and you clearly were not, much later I'd say, you too would be 31 this year.
Thanks for the clarification.0
