The new £1 coin

[StevieM]

We'll still be able to bank them, and they'll still be worth £1... forever.

 

I hereby withdraw my statement, which applies only to banknotes and not coins. Start smashing open those piggybanks, people!

[DJ-1701]

13 days to go until the old £1 coin expires...

https://days.to/15-october/2017

Edited October 1, 2017 by DJ-1701

[Arthur]

13 days to go until the old £1 coin expires...

 

Shops to ignore pound coin deadline

 

Thousands of shops are likely to ignore the Royal Mint’s deadline of Sunday to stop accepting old £1 coins.

 

A trade organisation representing 170,000 businesses has advised its members to continue taking the coins, because the changeover period with the new coins has been so short.

 

From midnight on Sunday 15 October, the coins will lose their legal tender status. After this date, shops and restaurants should no longer accept them. With a week to go, about 500m are still in circulation.

 

Poundland said more than 850 of its UK stores would continue accepting the coins until 31 October.

 

Barry Williams, the discount store chain’s trading director, told the Telegraph it was a “no brainer” to continue to accept the old coins.

 

While major banks are encouraging customers to allow enough time to hand in their old coins, they have said they will continue to accept deposits of round £1 coins after 15 October.

[micktordoff]

Everytime I look in my pocket another old £1 coin appears.

Shopkeepers are handing them back quicker than I can get rid of them.

[korifugi]

I'm sure the old £1 coins have become the item to (not) have in some form of national game of Hot Potato.

 

Whoever is left with them has to go through the rigmorale of taking them to the bank.

[mikeprice]

I'm sure the old £1 coins have become the item to (not) have in some form of national game of Hot Potato.

 

Whoever is left with them has to go through the rigmorale of taking them to the bank.

 

or to Tesco - where you can swap then for chocolate