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Visitors to the UK and the £1 coin

Post by colintf » Mon Jan 02, 2017 6:55 pm

I spotted this yesterday and thought I should give our non uk MG friends and visitors the information that a new £1 coin is being introduced in March


More importantly, the existing £1 coin appears to cease being legal tender in mid October!



From bbc news website (link at end of post)


"The new 12-sided £1 coin will enter circulation on 28 March, the government has said.

The round £1 will be legal tender alongside the new, more-secure coin until 15 October.

The public are being urged to use their current £1 coins or bank them before they lose their legal tender status."


Please, if you come over to the uk this year before October, spend the £1 coins (unless they are the new 12 sided ones) or quickly change them back into your home currency, otherwise later in the year you may not be able to use them :(

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38480180

I am surprised how soon the existing coin ceases to be legal tender!

:o

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Re: Visitors to the UK and the £1 coin

Post by Green Squirrel » Tue Jan 03, 2017 9:59 am

They will still be able to change them at a bank!
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Post by Kasper » Tue Jan 03, 2017 12:08 pm

Thank you for the reminder Colin, read it in the paper as well.

The loss of one of the most iconic coins available in the world.

I Feel sorry for you Brits...... I'll be over before October but I'll keep the two one Pound Sterling coins as a remembrance of good times. :lol:
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Re: Visitors to the UK and the £1 coin

Post by Helsbyman » Tue Jan 03, 2017 2:39 pm

I liked the big white fivers myself
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Post by hammond » Tue Jan 03, 2017 4:38 pm

Helsbyman wrote:I liked the big white fivers myself
Personally any type of money is fine by me :lol:
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Re: Visitors to the UK and the £1 coin

Post by Green Squirrel » Wed Jan 04, 2017 9:07 am

duplicated
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Post by Green Squirrel » Wed Jan 04, 2017 9:09 am

Helsbyman wrote:I liked the big white fivers myself
Me too - I remember coming home on leave back in the fifties when stationed in 2ATF (Germany) and getting our BAFs changed into Sterling and having a large white sheet of paper marked Five Pounds plus a few shillings that represented two weeks pay :?
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Post by ianhunter » Thu Jan 05, 2017 6:29 am

And the 10 shilling note, one would last from Monday to Friday payday. :D
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Re: Visitors to the UK and the £1 coin

Post by ErikB » Mon Jan 09, 2017 5:08 pm

How sweet to introduce a 12-sided coin in remembrance of the European Union with the 12 golden stars on its flag ....
Anything else the Brexit will change for 2017 or is this enough ;-)

Thanks for the update Colin, I didn't spot it in the news.
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Re: Visitors to the UK and the £1 coin

Post by colintf » Mon Jan 09, 2017 7:56 pm

ErikB wrote:How sweet to introduce a 12-sided coin in remembrance of the European Union with the 12 golden stars on its flag ....
Anything else the Brexit will change for 2017 or is this enough ;-)

Thanks for the update Colin, I didn't spot it in the news.
I hadn't thought of the 12 link to the European Union Erk :D

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