How do you like the design of the new £1 coin?
A new 12-sided pound coin was unveiled yesterday which will be in circulation in 2017.
The new £1 coin, which will bear the four symbols of the UK – the rose, the leek, the thistle and the shamrock – was designed by West Midlands teenager David Pearce, who won a competition to create the image.
But the coin doesn’t just have a new look. The Royal Mint says the new pound will be the most secure coin in the world, with its 12 sides, two metals and embedded anti-counterfeiting technology – adapted from banknotes for the first time – making it extremely difficult to replicate.
What do you think of the new design? Has it got a bit of deja vu for you?
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old threepenny bit
It looks like the old threepenny bit.
Jo and Wilf are right that it might affect machines, but if it is designed so that the outer edge is still the same size as the existing pound coin this might not be an issue. Surely they would have thought this through?