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Old 04-01-2017, 15:06
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https://www.thenewpoundcoin.com

Bold new design – it also features a new design that shows the English rose, the Welsh leek, the Scottish thistle and the Northern Irish shamrock emerging from one stem within a royal coronet. This was created by David Pearce who won a public design competition at the age of 15.

I like it.
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Old 04-01-2017, 15:07
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A beaut.
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Old 04-01-2017, 15:12
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Very nice too, sadly business and the government will be spending shed loads of money updating machines to be able to take it.
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Old 04-01-2017, 15:14
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The lawers getting paid billions for brexit are going to love these.
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Old 04-01-2017, 15:16
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The lawers getting paid billions for brexit are going to love these.
Don't worry, they are giving them the old ones.
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Old 04-01-2017, 15:17
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Its a coin, for spending nothing more nothing less. What ever on it means nothing to me.
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Old 04-01-2017, 15:19
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It's like the old threepenny bit.
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Old 04-01-2017, 15:19
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Wow - that's beautiful and designed by a fifteen year old. How wonderful to make your mark on something special like that at such a young age. Very talented - captures the spirit of the UK perfectly.
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Old 04-01-2017, 15:25
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Very talented - captures the spirit of the UK perfectly.
I don't usually disagree, but if it really captured the spirit of the UK, it would have a moat with an up-drawn drawbridge, a twisted head looking behind, and a mound of sand with a torso sticking out vertically.

It would also be fractured down the middle from top to bottom.
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Old 04-01-2017, 15:27
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I don't usually disagree, but if it really captured the spirit of the UK, it would have a moat with an up-drawn drawbridge, a twisted head looking behind, and a mound of sand with a torso sticking out vertically.

It would also be fractured down the middle from top to bottom.
Maybe they can put an mini portrait of Nick Clegg on one side for the 48%?
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Old 04-01-2017, 15:27
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I don't usually disagree, but if it really captured the spirit of the UK, it would have a moat with an up-drawn drawbridge, a twisted head looking behind, and a mound of sand with a torso sticking out vertically.

It would also be fractured down the middle from top to bottom.
If they ever remake One Foot in the Grave you should audition for it.
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Old 04-01-2017, 15:28
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Its a coin, for spending nothing more nothing less. What ever on it means nothing to me.
Even a portrait of Farage?
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Old 04-01-2017, 15:28
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Its lovely design, showing unity amongst the 4 nations and dare I say its hopeful too, something we can never get enough of right now!
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Old 04-01-2017, 15:30
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Even a portrait of Farage?
That would mean a piece of scrap metal
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Old 04-01-2017, 15:33
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That would mean a piece of scrap metal
And it'd be bent.
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Old 04-01-2017, 15:33
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That would mean a piece of scrap metal
MIAOW! bitchy!
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Old 04-01-2017, 15:33
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That would mean a piece of scrap metal
So what isn't on it does matter to you.
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Old 04-01-2017, 15:41
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I don't usually disagree, but if it really captured the spirit of the UK, it would have a moat with an up-drawn drawbridge, a twisted head looking behind, and a mound of sand with a torso sticking out vertically.

It would also be fractured down the middle from top to bottom.
For god's sake trevgo, brexit won't be as bad as you expect because best and worst case scenarios very rarely come to pass.
What we'll end up with is something between getting everything we want and the carnage and mayhem you envisage.
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Old 04-01-2017, 15:47
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Ha ha ha ha!

Any good taste parking meter/self service checkout/ticket machine would spit it out with vigour!

He'd be perfect for the 45p coin though.
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Old 04-01-2017, 15:51
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Ha ha ha ha!

Any good taste parking meter/self service checkout/ticket machine would spit it out with vigour!

He'd be perfect for the 45p coin though.
You mean a 52p coin. Clegg would get the 48p coin.
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Old 04-01-2017, 15:58
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Ha ha ha ha!

Any good taste parking meter/self service checkout/ticket machine would spit it out with vigour!

He'd be perfect for the 45p coin though.
The modern day equivalent of the nine bob note!
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Old 04-01-2017, 16:04
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Very nice too, sadly business and the government will be spending shed loads of money updating machines to be able to take it.
For good reason, as the old pound coin has been massively counterfeited.

Modern coin acceptors should be easy to upgrade anyway, it's all done in software.
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Old 04-01-2017, 16:09
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The modern day equivalent of the nine bob note!
Precisely!

Perfect for our Nige, especially as it would be worth exactly $1 within 18 months.
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Old 04-01-2017, 16:18
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For good reason, as the old pound coin has been massively counterfeited.

Modern coin acceptors should be easy to upgrade anyway, it's all done in software.
It is believed about 40% of coin machines will need to have the mechanism physically removed and updated, the costs to update coin machines for the new £1 coin are estimated at £100m.
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Old 04-01-2017, 16:38
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It is believed about 40% of coin machines will need to have the mechanism physically removed and updated, the costs to update coin machines for the new £1 coin are estimated at £100m.
Estimates are all over the place. The Mint themselves thinks that upgrade costs are around £20m https://www.theguardian.com/money/20...-coin-business

And with an estimated £45m of counterfeit pound coins in circulation, it's a no brainer. The problem isn't going to make itself go away.
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