John Posted March 28, 2017 Share Posted March 28, 2017 More info: https://www.thenewpoundcoin.com/ I've got loads of old £1 in a piggy bank to spend between now and October 15th. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silentP Posted March 28, 2017 Share Posted March 28, 2017 If you're too busy I can collect (for a nominal fee) and offload your burden. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TORONTONY Posted March 28, 2017 Share Posted March 28, 2017 Oh dear, counterfeiters actually copy the one pound coin. The metals used probably cost more than the value of the coin, in it's current free fall. Is this to create a vending machine manufacturing boom? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silentP Posted March 28, 2017 Share Posted March 28, 2017 No, I think the change in shape is to prevent them rolling away under sofas and the like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eater Sundae Posted March 28, 2017 Share Posted March 28, 2017 They were created so that the older ones amongst us can reminisce about threepenny bits Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smithy266 Posted March 28, 2017 Share Posted March 28, 2017 So is that 'threppenny' bits or 'thruppenny' bits? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alcoblog Posted March 28, 2017 Share Posted March 28, 2017 Anyone know why the new coin is going to be dodecagonal. I thought coins had to have an odd number of sides in the shape of a Reuleaux polygon to facilitate being used in vending machines which read (constant) diameter … as in the 50p. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eater Sundae Posted March 28, 2017 Share Posted March 28, 2017 So is that 'threppenny' bits or 'thruppenny' bits? Certainly pronounced as if thruppenny ---------- Post added 28-03-2017 at 10:02 ---------- Anyone know why the new coin is going to be dodecagonal. I thought coins had to have an odd number of sides in the shape of a Reuleaux polygon to facilitate being used in vending machines which read (constant) diameter … as in the 50p. I don't know the answer, but could it just be that above a certain number of sides, the shape approaches that of a circle, to the point where a) it rolls easily, and b) the change in diameter, as it rolls, is so small that machines can still recognise what it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Bloke Posted March 28, 2017 Share Posted March 28, 2017 Anyone know why the new coin is going to be dodecagonal. I thought coins had to have an odd number of sides in the shape of a Reuleaux polygon to facilitate being used in vending machines which read (constant) diameter … as in the 50p. Hmmm... ... well, it's obviously a cunning plan by them pesky Brexiters to reintroduce our pre-decimalisation currency... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TORONTONY Posted March 28, 2017 Share Posted March 28, 2017 (edited) Certainly pronounced as if thruppenny ---------- Post added 28-03-2017 at 10:02 ---------- I don't know the answer, but could it just be that above a certain number of sides, the shape approaches that of a circle, to the point where a) it rolls easily, and b) the change in diameter, as it rolls, is so small that machines can still recognise what it is. It were aiius threppenny bit when I were a lad thruppenny wert t' posh version. Edited March 28, 2017 by TORONTONY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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