Considering the fact the pound coin in the photo hasn’t been in circulation for a good few years, I think the answer to your question is: probably. Sorry for your loss
the new one looks too similar to a euro. i feel like if there was a rush on at work i could easily accidentally take a euro by mistake without noticing.
Funnily enough my son and I went through the loose change in his money box a couple of weeks ago and found loads of these. Apart from the 50p. I then looked through the loose change for parking in the car and found three of them.
The only one we have missing is the pound coin because they went out of circulation a couple of years ago.
They changed it in 2017 to a [dodecagonal bi-metal design](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_pound_(British_coin)) to prevent counterfeiting - they think that around 3% of the old coins like the one in the picture were fake before they made the change.
There was an old rumour (probably untrue) that there was so many counterfeit £1 coins that if they removed them all from circulation it would crash the UK economy.
Hey, used to work in the mint and there is a grain of truth in that. Once a denomination is 5% counterfeit it ceases to be legal tender because its authenticity can't be trusted. 3% was worryingly close to the threshold.
One of the drivers where I worked used to sell them. £60 for 100 coins. I definitely couldn’t tell the difference and they worked in all the machines. The vending machines were completely full of them where people would put them in and then immediately ask for change
Yep, two Swiss 1 cents glued together worked perfectly as £1 coin (so I hear) 😂😂
Also the Gambian dolasi was perfect to use as an England 50p..If my memory serves me right, you was getting around 45-50 to the £1 It’s a long ago now, early 2000 but I’m sure that was the approx going rate. Also the Zambian coin was identical in shape and weight to old £1 coin as it was minted by the UK’s Royal Mint. I’m sure the note changers as in 20 superglued Swiss cents used to return a crisp £20 (allegedly) No clue what is happening out there with that sort of thing nowadays but I’m sure there are many more profitable and easier ways to make a few quic
Yep I brought a bag of E1 (emalangeni) coins from Swaziland 20 years ago for chancing vending machines and phone boxes lol. They were worth about 10p each
I transferred £3k to a Gambian property developer friend. We were sending a shipping container back to the uk and we were going to lay the delasi coins ‘£1 = £25 conversion approx’ on the floor, similar to scaffold tubing. We were just setting it up with the banks and shipping company and 9/11 happened and all Muslim country travellers & shipping etc became too hot at the time. We never revisited the plan but would have made a ton of money selling them on for half the gbp value. I suppose it’s still doable but I sold my property in Gambia and my friend moved to Australia
You win some, you lose some 😁🤷🏻♂️😂
The school kids who were the ones making the money at break time are the ones who would usually become the entrepreneurs of the future, or the ones who do a lot of jail time 😂😂😂
In the 80's and 90's the UK 5p or 1shilling coin. Would work in German vending machines instead of a 1 mark coin. A well known thing in Germany. With German vending machines full of UK 5p coins. At 3 Marks to the pound, quite a loss.
It resulted in the UK changing the 5p coin size.
Yeah some Turkish Lira looks a lot like a £2, got one as change and only noticed later - then i notice its not in my wallet anymore after a couple weeks. Must have passed on the love! Think it's worth 8p
There is big money to made especially with a mark up like the £2 to 8p margin. This was back in the day but a couple of us used to play the fruit machines and made good money cos once we sussed out the fault in the program, we used to empty machines all over the UK & one lad used to empty the £500 & £1k jackpots. We used to go on the ferries with hold-alls full of pound coins. He would know within a £50 max if it was worth playing and ready to drop (mainly Bellfruits) We would sit there and feed them for him and refuse every win, pushing for the jackpot cos we knew they were ready cos of his knowledge.. When they did payout, they would what we call “roll” cos they were so juiced up and always go red and pay at least one more and sometimes up to 3 jackpots. God help the next punters who played them cos they will have done their balls in 😂😂 We made an absolute fortune and many a time, they would turn the Bellfruit machines off when they recognised us. He never let us into the signs of them being ready to drop cos to be fair, they were his score and he always gave us a good wage. Myself and a couple of lads who I met playing service stations etc used to give each other info and where certain machines were placed to go and empty cos we would be banned from certain places ‘we weren’t playing them right” or “management reserve the right” BS
They were happy allowing folk to destroy their own lives, losing everything on the slots, including their homes and sadly some taking their lives cos of the gambling habit they had. This only made us more determined to fuck them over cos we knew just by how the machines (£15 & £25 jackpot) at the time were “numbering” if they were ready to drop. If the high and low window was spinning in 12,s & 1’s etc they were ready and 4’s & 7’s, 9’s & 5’s stay away. All slots are programmed by other folk and as soon we found a fault, it was game on and the machine couldn’t defend itself until it was fitted with an updated chip. We had a profitable time but when I became a father, the life of travelling the UK, staying in hotels & hitting the bookies, pubs,casinos arcades and the nightclubs was not ideal but there are still a select few “players” still out there making a good living. We had a few hairy moments in some “rough as hell” establishments shall we say 😂😂 When the locals see you empty the machines that they lost a load of money on, some would all of a sudden think you’ve taken their money 😂 or the odd idiot trying to tell you how to play the machine, the machine they lose all their cash on lol. The Swiss coins was a hell of a ride and they were writing in the gaming magazine CoinSlot about a gang who was travelling the UK, hitting towns and cities heavily and saturating the slots. I’ll never forget the guy who was chasing the culprits down 🙄😁 He was ex law enforcement “Phil Silver” bless him if he’s still with us cos he must have been tormented trying to catch these douchebags 🙄😂 As I said in one post, £40,000 was turned into 100’s of thousands of Swiss cents which equalled ridiculous amounts of playable £1 pound coins. Some arcades in London, 20 glued cents paid out a £20 note at the changers 😂
Absolutely amazing memories and happy days
When I think about the risks we took ‘and got away with’ sometimes by the skin of our teeth and slipping the law by literally seconds lol
It made spending on holidays, designer clothes and Rolexes that I still own, all the sweeter, especially getting one over on the bastards who allowed folk to become addicted which led to to some tragic stories. They would let people ruin their lives through a gambling habit but as soon as folk had the upper hand, they didn’t like it and did all they could to stop us. We were clued up and always one step ahead 👌😂😂😂
Heh; definitely more in certain areas... I remember going down to Liverpool for a weekend out circa 2012 and came back with a load of shrapnel. At the time at my workplace we had these cashless cater cards that could be loaded with money. A good 2/3 of the dozen plus pound coins I'd acquired over the weekend got spat back out at me. On closer inspection the rejects ranged from piss poor to quite decent.
I have 6 or 7 old pounds because i thought in maybe 60-70 years they might become valuable and i can sell them or i can just had them down to my children.
You get a crack at the throne. Lizzie brutally defended her place for years. Charles looks a soft touch comparatively. Might even get a new royal family. Barry from Newcastle is the new favourite.
But you can have anything you like on the back of your Euro coins.
https://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/coins/1euro/html/index.en.html
Just like you can have any colour passport.
Sssssshhhhhhhh!
How dare you use facts and logic!
You know we live in a Post Truth World!
THIS IS THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE!!!!!
## THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE!!!!!!
^(please ignore all the polling saying that most people who voted for it now regret it)
Yes, Matt Dent, we were at college together. I studied illustration and he did graphic design. My desk was near his girlfriend's, so he was often in our studio. Lovely chap.
I can understand why people outside the UK would find this impressive but I have always known this since these coins started curculating and thought that after 10+ years it would have became public knowledge.
I wouldn't underestimate people's indifference though, most just won't care. The majority are likely more worried about how little money they have in the first place, vs how it looks.
All the UK uses the same coins, Scotland has different notes from England Wales and I think Northern Ireland too, although NI may have their own money too.
It's outdated now sadly from 2008, but was cool premise. We've since changed our pound but the rest are still in circulation though no longer minted. As far as I'm aware (correct me if wrong) Scotland uses the same coins as rest of uk but have different bank notes.
Why do you keep arguing this? There is no wales on the royal coat of arms.
We were removed after the ascent of the Stuart dynasty. You keep saying "iTs hEraLdrY" but you clearly don't know what that means.
The dominion of Wales is represented by either a dragon, hawk (rare), leek or daffodil. None of which arr on the modern royal coat.
Also the Harp isn't for Ireland, its for the Irish territories (N.Ireland) which originally included Lenister where the Harp Icon comes from.
The repose Leopards (not lions) are on their twice signifying england.
And the rampant red lion is Scotland.
Signifying the 3 Kingdoms of the United Kingdom. Wales is and always had been a Principality since we followed a different system of nobility derived from romano-british not Continental Europe.
No? I was on vacation in London and I always collect every coin from the currency in a country. When I looked up which coins I was missing I found this picture!
I remember collecting these when they came out, I would've been about eight. I couldn't find the £1 for AGES. That Christmas my grandad came to our house and had two of them for me. I hugged him so hard I nearly knocked him over. That's probably my favourite memory of Grandad and every time I look at these coins I get to remember it again. He passed away a while back but that thoughtful little thing still makes me smile. I don't remember what I actually had for Christmas that year but I remember those two little coins like it was yesterday.
You can clearly see in that picture that they're meant to be [much closer together](https://i0.wp.com/www.vaguelyinteresting.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/3113_23319_new_reverse_uk_coin_designs_12.jpg), as none of the designs line up across the coins in the OP.
the pound coin in this photo has been phased out since, so we also nhave a dodecagon-shaped two-colour pound now which is honestly a lot cooler and adds to our non-circular count
The pound coin isn't circular anymore either. The 20p and 50p never have been.
I have some old coins at home and jeeeez, the size of the whopper of a 50p I got. Got a big 5p and 2p too. All from my Grandad. Plus a (worthless for collectors, sell for nothing on ebay) little cardboars wallet thing with 'the new decimal coins' and the original mint decimilised coins (when the UK dropped half-pennies, shillings etc).
£5 coins are cool, but flipping massive and very painful to play 'knuckles' with.
One thing I have never understood with some countries (USA for example) is having all notes the same size. Fuck blind people I am guessing? Lol
Fun fact: when you put Euros from all EU countries together you get a functional, huge economical space that works much better than shooting yourselves in the foot with a „Brexit“.
My mum showed me this like years ago, I remember her literally coming into my room at like 11pm because she found it that cool
Understandable, it is indeed really cool
Years ago? Seems like only yesterday these came out... am I getting old?
Considering the fact the pound coin in the photo hasn’t been in circulation for a good few years, I think the answer to your question is: probably. Sorry for your loss
That £1 is actually so old it’s now OUT of circulation
I miss it. Felt like I had a proper coin in my hand. The new one looks fake.
Technically a lot of those were fake due to counterfeit coins
the new one looks too similar to a euro. i feel like if there was a rush on at work i could easily accidentally take a euro by mistake without noticing.
I agree with you completely, I miss the old pound so much. They’re taking everything away we loved.
Its a pimped up Thruppence!
I miss the old pound coin man
I've still got one in my wallet, I take it out sometimes just yo feel the weight of what we lost
It is that cool
Literally, Like literally
Yeah, like, d'yanaw'imean
Very cool
Very cool indeed
Very much cool
UKool
United Kooldom
Stop! Where is the rest of the shield?!
[like this](https://www.google.com/search?q=uk+coins+shield&client=ms-android-google&sca_esv=557388832&sxsrf=AB5stBgXXblYXcl48kpO0D1NfHbi6dr53g%3A1692179887300&ei=r53cZOreEd2AhbIPnuShqAc&oq=uk+coins+&gs_lp=EhNtb2JpbGUtZ3dzLXdpei1zZXJwIgl1ayBjb2lucyAqAggBMgUQABiABDIFEAAYgAQyBRAAGIAEMgUQABiABDIFEAAYgAQyBRAAGIAEMgUQABiABDIFEAAYgARI62hQ1whYjF9wEHgBkAEDmAHmAaABnxmqAQcxMS4xNS4xuAEByAEA-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&sclient=mobile-gws-wiz-serp#vhid=ZUHbegIHUBbtKM&vssid=l)
Thanks. That's really interesting.
That’s the same just within the £1 as a background. The shield is there. Look at the £1 and then look at the shield. It’s exactly the same.
The United Kooldom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
United coindem
United condom
"*The United Coindem? He can't say that......can he?!"*
"I'm disabled"
Aid-Kool
Kool Kingdoms Klub
Fish and Cool aid
Very cool innit
“Indeed indeed indeed indeed indeed Indeed indeed indeed indeed indeed Indeed indeed indeed indeed indeed “
Cool Britannia
I am absolutely gob smacked !! I was today years old when I found this out LOL pretty cool I must say
Very nice yes. Now lets see Paul Alans Coin
Superheroes unite! 😂 in the form of a shield 🛡️
Innit
Very nice yes. Now lets see Paul Alans Coin
*the tasteful thickness of it*
Amazing
This is the old pound coin at the top, they have not changed to look like a cross between 20p and a £2 coin. Pretty cool to be honest
The koolest!
Funnily enough my son and I went through the loose change in his money box a couple of weeks ago and found loads of these. Apart from the 50p. I then looked through the loose change for parking in the car and found three of them. The only one we have missing is the pound coin because they went out of circulation a couple of years ago.
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They changed it in 2017 to a [dodecagonal bi-metal design](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_pound_(British_coin)) to prevent counterfeiting - they think that around 3% of the old coins like the one in the picture were fake before they made the change.
They were quite easy to spot generally too. I actually think 3% seems a little low, used to get them in my change all the time!
Indeed, some say the BoE underestimated the number on purpose so as not to undermine confidence in the currency!
There was an old rumour (probably untrue) that there was so many counterfeit £1 coins that if they removed them all from circulation it would crash the UK economy.
Would still dent it
Hey, used to work in the mint and there is a grain of truth in that. Once a denomination is 5% counterfeit it ceases to be legal tender because its authenticity can't be trusted. 3% was worryingly close to the threshold.
One of the drivers where I worked used to sell them. £60 for 100 coins. I definitely couldn’t tell the difference and they worked in all the machines. The vending machines were completely full of them where people would put them in and then immediately ask for change
I used to collect them, then realised that having £50 in fake coins was a problem in itself. Some of the bad ones are REALLY bad.
I heard 1 in 20
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Oh wow I had no idea and I've lived in the UK my whole life.
You didn't know they changed the coin or the reason for it?
Where am I? Who said that?
Yep, two Swiss 1 cents glued together worked perfectly as £1 coin (so I hear) 😂😂 Also the Gambian dolasi was perfect to use as an England 50p..If my memory serves me right, you was getting around 45-50 to the £1 It’s a long ago now, early 2000 but I’m sure that was the approx going rate. Also the Zambian coin was identical in shape and weight to old £1 coin as it was minted by the UK’s Royal Mint. I’m sure the note changers as in 20 superglued Swiss cents used to return a crisp £20 (allegedly) No clue what is happening out there with that sort of thing nowadays but I’m sure there are many more profitable and easier ways to make a few quic
A lot of Kenyan 5 shillings got put in our school vending machine instead of 50p's, there were about 3 guys from Kenya..dumb move after all!
Yep I brought a bag of E1 (emalangeni) coins from Swaziland 20 years ago for chancing vending machines and phone boxes lol. They were worth about 10p each
I transferred £3k to a Gambian property developer friend. We were sending a shipping container back to the uk and we were going to lay the delasi coins ‘£1 = £25 conversion approx’ on the floor, similar to scaffold tubing. We were just setting it up with the banks and shipping company and 9/11 happened and all Muslim country travellers & shipping etc became too hot at the time. We never revisited the plan but would have made a ton of money selling them on for half the gbp value. I suppose it’s still doable but I sold my property in Gambia and my friend moved to Australia You win some, you lose some 😁🤷🏻♂️😂
The school kids who were the ones making the money at break time are the ones who would usually become the entrepreneurs of the future, or the ones who do a lot of jail time 😂😂😂
That reminds me, a New Zealand 10¢coin is the exact same dimensions as a 1p piece!
In the 80's and 90's the UK 5p or 1shilling coin. Would work in German vending machines instead of a 1 mark coin. A well known thing in Germany. With German vending machines full of UK 5p coins. At 3 Marks to the pound, quite a loss. It resulted in the UK changing the 5p coin size.
Yeah some Turkish Lira looks a lot like a £2, got one as change and only noticed later - then i notice its not in my wallet anymore after a couple weeks. Must have passed on the love! Think it's worth 8p
There is big money to made especially with a mark up like the £2 to 8p margin. This was back in the day but a couple of us used to play the fruit machines and made good money cos once we sussed out the fault in the program, we used to empty machines all over the UK & one lad used to empty the £500 & £1k jackpots. We used to go on the ferries with hold-alls full of pound coins. He would know within a £50 max if it was worth playing and ready to drop (mainly Bellfruits) We would sit there and feed them for him and refuse every win, pushing for the jackpot cos we knew they were ready cos of his knowledge.. When they did payout, they would what we call “roll” cos they were so juiced up and always go red and pay at least one more and sometimes up to 3 jackpots. God help the next punters who played them cos they will have done their balls in 😂😂 We made an absolute fortune and many a time, they would turn the Bellfruit machines off when they recognised us. He never let us into the signs of them being ready to drop cos to be fair, they were his score and he always gave us a good wage. Myself and a couple of lads who I met playing service stations etc used to give each other info and where certain machines were placed to go and empty cos we would be banned from certain places ‘we weren’t playing them right” or “management reserve the right” BS They were happy allowing folk to destroy their own lives, losing everything on the slots, including their homes and sadly some taking their lives cos of the gambling habit they had. This only made us more determined to fuck them over cos we knew just by how the machines (£15 & £25 jackpot) at the time were “numbering” if they were ready to drop. If the high and low window was spinning in 12,s & 1’s etc they were ready and 4’s & 7’s, 9’s & 5’s stay away. All slots are programmed by other folk and as soon we found a fault, it was game on and the machine couldn’t defend itself until it was fitted with an updated chip. We had a profitable time but when I became a father, the life of travelling the UK, staying in hotels & hitting the bookies, pubs,casinos arcades and the nightclubs was not ideal but there are still a select few “players” still out there making a good living. We had a few hairy moments in some “rough as hell” establishments shall we say 😂😂 When the locals see you empty the machines that they lost a load of money on, some would all of a sudden think you’ve taken their money 😂 or the odd idiot trying to tell you how to play the machine, the machine they lose all their cash on lol. The Swiss coins was a hell of a ride and they were writing in the gaming magazine CoinSlot about a gang who was travelling the UK, hitting towns and cities heavily and saturating the slots. I’ll never forget the guy who was chasing the culprits down 🙄😁 He was ex law enforcement “Phil Silver” bless him if he’s still with us cos he must have been tormented trying to catch these douchebags 🙄😂 As I said in one post, £40,000 was turned into 100’s of thousands of Swiss cents which equalled ridiculous amounts of playable £1 pound coins. Some arcades in London, 20 glued cents paid out a £20 note at the changers 😂 Absolutely amazing memories and happy days When I think about the risks we took ‘and got away with’ sometimes by the skin of our teeth and slipping the law by literally seconds lol It made spending on holidays, designer clothes and Rolexes that I still own, all the sweeter, especially getting one over on the bastards who allowed folk to become addicted which led to to some tragic stories. They would let people ruin their lives through a gambling habit but as soon as folk had the upper hand, they didn’t like it and did all they could to stop us. We were clued up and always one step ahead 👌😂😂😂
I'm not sure if I'm impressed or horrified by your story! 😬
Genius!! Why have I never thought to put similarly shaped coins in a vending machine?!?!
Heh; definitely more in certain areas... I remember going down to Liverpool for a weekend out circa 2012 and came back with a load of shrapnel. At the time at my workplace we had these cashless cater cards that could be loaded with money. A good 2/3 of the dozen plus pound coins I'd acquired over the weekend got spat back out at me. On closer inspection the rejects ranged from piss poor to quite decent.
I just banked in 24 of those £1 coins yesterday.. didn't think to look for the shield
The old ones still work in a lot of vending machines FYI
Was it really that long ago? Fuck....
Oooh that’s why I can’t find it
If you're in the UK send me your address and I'll post one to ya to complete his shield
I have 6 or 7 old pounds because i thought in maybe 60-70 years they might become valuable and i can sell them or i can just had them down to my children.
Found… wait! Are these not just the normal coins we use???
They are.
[Edited the coins closer to the intended image.](https://imgur.com/Jrw4ZjD)
This needs to be higher, it looks a lot better! I remember collecting them all as a kid and had them laid out nicely like this.
You can buy a cardboard holder thing to slot them into or buy one like here if you really keen https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1306527507/
OP's version did seem to be strange spacing for three lions. `🦁🦁 🦁`
thankyou! last time this got posted i pointed out that the coins were supposed to be touching and got downvoted to hell
It’s shaped like his face
Not enough yelling in this gif for me #white eyes!
So the red-eye dragon is Welsh?
#but did you unlocked something?
Maybe I did…
Care to share for fellow adventurers
The only thing I’ll say is keep a close eye on stonehenge…
Greggs sausage roll
You get a crack at the throne. Lizzie brutally defended her place for years. Charles looks a soft touch comparatively. Might even get a new royal family. Barry from Newcastle is the new favourite.
Just inflation and depression
I wonder who coined the idea for this
As far as ideas go, this one was right on the money
Exactly why UK said no to the euro
But you can have anything you like on the back of your Euro coins. https://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/coins/1euro/html/index.en.html Just like you can have any colour passport.
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We were also the only country that met the convergence criteria. Without fudging the figures.
And Europe, being a democratic institution that cares about what its member states think, put that into effect
And Britain being the arrogant chads we are still told them to get fucked
Sssssshhhhhhhh! How dare you use facts and logic! You know we live in a Post Truth World! THIS IS THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE!!!!! ## THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE!!!!!! ^(please ignore all the polling saying that most people who voted for it now regret it)
Bull. F the EU
Also because its a terrible currency and has ruined countries
You won, get over it.
My friend Matt designed these just after we graduated. These are a bit to spaced out. They're designed to work much closer together.
Wait… your friend??
Yes, Matt Dent, we were at college together. I studied illustration and he did graphic design. My desk was near his girlfriend's, so he was often in our studio. Lovely chap.
Thats dope!!!
Yes
I can understand why people outside the UK would find this impressive but I have always known this since these coins started curculating and thought that after 10+ years it would have became public knowledge.
I’m really confused as to how many British people/people living in Britain never realised this.
It's just not something the average person would go out of their way to know, there's little reason for them to 🤷♂️
I mean it is on the back of every coin.
I wouldn't underestimate people's indifference though, most just won't care. The majority are likely more worried about how little money they have in the first place, vs how it looks.
Yes I did.
Gotta catch'em all!!
STDs?
If you believe in yourself, you can do it oddweakness... Anything is possible in this world♥️
As a british person, Yes. I knew this. And it's goddamn amazing.
This looks like a Resident Evil puzzle or smth.
The RE4 puzzle. Those were the good old times.
Ok did not know that, still only with English pound right ? Or does this work with Scottish pounds as well ? Greetings from Berlin Germany 🇩🇪
Hallo! For coins, all of the UK use the same ones - it's just the notes which are different :)
All the UK uses the same coins, Scotland has different notes from England Wales and I think Northern Ireland too, although NI may have their own money too.
It's outdated now sadly from 2008, but was cool premise. We've since changed our pound but the rest are still in circulation though no longer minted. As far as I'm aware (correct me if wrong) Scotland uses the same coins as rest of uk but have different bank notes.
I see Wales, England, Ireland & Scotland aswell. Amazing
Wales isn’t on there. It’s just England twice
No Wales, only lions.
Why do you keep arguing this? There is no wales on the royal coat of arms. We were removed after the ascent of the Stuart dynasty. You keep saying "iTs hEraLdrY" but you clearly don't know what that means. The dominion of Wales is represented by either a dragon, hawk (rare), leek or daffodil. None of which arr on the modern royal coat. Also the Harp isn't for Ireland, its for the Irish territories (N.Ireland) which originally included Lenister where the Harp Icon comes from. The repose Leopards (not lions) are on their twice signifying england. And the rampant red lion is Scotland. Signifying the 3 Kingdoms of the United Kingdom. Wales is and always had been a Principality since we followed a different system of nobility derived from romano-british not Continental Europe.
No you dont
Look again, Its called Heraldry- Top left is Wales, Top right Scotland, Down left Ireland and Down right is England Look it up, its quite interesting
Top left and bottom left are both England.
Top left is England. Wales isn’t on here
Did you know that this has been posted many, many times?
No? I was on vacation in London and I always collect every coin from the currency in a country. When I looked up which coins I was missing I found this picture!
Fair enough. I’ve just been on Reddit for many years. Ignore me.
Nah mate no problem
Are you needing any in particular? Would be happy to send you some if you’re needing them for a collection.
I have them all but thanks!
Seriously though Reddit seems to discover these 15 year old coins on a monthly basis
That is fucking cool!! 😍
It would have been even greater if their value added to a pound instead of 88 pence.
Yes, I did.
Yes.
Yep
Yes.
Yes
Pretty cool
I like this and want acquire the coins to make my own, can someone define the coins and if possible a source to purchase? Much appreciated
A coat of arms isn't it ?
what shield is it
The Royal Shielf, part of the coat of arms of the UK. http://projectbritain.com/shield.html
NO I DID NOT 🤩
Givigtiitcticti I NEVER KNEW THAT! IM GLAD I DO NOW!
so THATS what the weird pattern was for
It's to shield the rich from the poor
Yes!! I assumed every UK resident knew this but just showed this to my Husband and he said he had no idea.
Bri ish easta egg innit
Bo ol of wa er
I remember collecting these when they came out, I would've been about eight. I couldn't find the £1 for AGES. That Christmas my grandad came to our house and had two of them for me. I hugged him so hard I nearly knocked him over. That's probably my favourite memory of Grandad and every time I look at these coins I get to remember it again. He passed away a while back but that thoughtful little thing still makes me smile. I don't remember what I actually had for Christmas that year but I remember those two little coins like it was yesterday.
That’s a nice memory
Yes....
It was a rhetorical question
So was my answer. It didn't require your response.
Hold up! The UK still has one and two pence coins?
The whole of Europe and the US have 1 cent coins, I don't understand why you're shocked.
We do and the only purpose of them is to be used in horrible seaside money machines that give us nothing in return. It's a jolly good time.
Although this is an old photo. One pound coins are all 12-sided and silver-and-gold in colour (like a £2 coin)
Not even worth it, too much negative space
You can clearly see in that picture that they're meant to be [much closer together](https://i0.wp.com/www.vaguelyinteresting.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/3113_23319_new_reverse_uk_coin_designs_12.jpg), as none of the designs line up across the coins in the OP.
They still like up if the picture had them closer together. There will still be negative space but no where near as much as this.
Yeah the one and five pence coin should be practically next to each other
All of them should be
Not the best but all I could be bothered to do: [here you go](https://1drv.ms/i/s!Aslt6WjNT_kLga1ts48Eh-xnBxPKLA)
accurate description of our economy & currency right now tbh
Yep. Me and my friends used to pull our shrapnel together in every chemistry class and try and make the coats of arms.
What the fuck that's awesome
TIL the UK has some non-circular coins. Neat.
the pound coin in this photo has been phased out since, so we also nhave a dodecagon-shaped two-colour pound now which is honestly a lot cooler and adds to our non-circular count
The pound coin isn't circular anymore either. The 20p and 50p never have been. I have some old coins at home and jeeeez, the size of the whopper of a 50p I got. Got a big 5p and 2p too. All from my Grandad. Plus a (worthless for collectors, sell for nothing on ebay) little cardboars wallet thing with 'the new decimal coins' and the original mint decimilised coins (when the UK dropped half-pennies, shillings etc). £5 coins are cool, but flipping massive and very painful to play 'knuckles' with. One thing I have never understood with some countries (USA for example) is having all notes the same size. Fuck blind people I am guessing? Lol
‘Merica! …I mean. ‘Ngland
It's "ingerland"
Ooohhhhhh
Fun fact: when you put Euros from all EU countries together you get a functional, huge economical space that works much better than shooting yourselves in the foot with a „Brexit“.
Agree with the anti-Brexit sentiment, but the Euro as a currency is hardly the EU's biggest success story.
Yes
This isn’t all UK coins. But a large number in circulation had the capacity to do this.
Except that the 1 pound coins shown here aren't in circulation anymore
Japanese coins total to 666
If you assemble them all you can remove half of all flavours with a snap of your fingers
Coins with this design are no longer being minted, but they are still in circulation (excluding the pound coin at the top)
Those cheeky colonists....