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This didn't happen with the old threepenny bits so what makes you think it will happen with the new pound coins.
According to recent reports 3% of pound coins in circulation are fake.

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I use a trolley token anyway for the supermarket trolley.

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On the Canadian toonie the design is an image of the Queen with a bear behind.:D

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Correction - that should read 3%.
Didn't spot that sneaky zero until it was too late.

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According to this I've 2 fake £1 coins in my pocket 'right now' :eek:
Counterfeit One Pound Coins | The Royal Mint

Will these criminal masterminds not just focus their efforts on another coin,say 50p-£2 coin or on notes?
I'm pretty sure it won't be long before we see snide versions of this new "most secure in the world" one.

Coin mechanisms tend to have a limited life anyway.I assume machines mechs will just be replaced as they are due. Like less said some machines are easy to configure for new coinage - it's something that happens from time to time, so good designers probably factor it in.
I kind of like this new one,it's quirky and as long as it's still bulky like the old one "it's all good" as they say.

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I don't Margaret,it was my half/full baked humour ;)
However saying that we both know our gov like to do things on the cheap,so it's possible.:)

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I wonder if our's will have her with a bear behind,more chance of it being Dick Turpin :D

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It's not due out until 2017, so they might as well call it a 50p as that's all it will be worth by then!!: :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

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On the opposite side to liz they should put the monopoly boot kicking or stamping on folk :D

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Ah....I see. Maybe I need to tweak(not twerk) my funny bone a bit then.

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Coin mechs lives, are designed for the life of the machine they are in.
They can be configured according to the Country they are working in.
A coin mech designed for an American made pin table for example, can be configured to take any coins from any Country.

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Fi'pences DtP :D Fag machines, phone boxes & any other Germing vending machines that took the old DM. Happy days! The troops would come back from leave with about 20 Quids worth of Fi'pences & flood the place. :)

Phone home or buy up all the smokes from the machines around the camps & down town, then flog 'em to the krautlings for "Proper money" at a discount of course, we weren't totally mercenary, paid for the Beer right enough, but we'd end up getting read the riot act by the GSM & the Monkeys. :o

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Yer right DinG five pence/shilling......

Used a load in the red phone box in Edinburgh House, Berlin reunification year :D