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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 151173, member: 39&quot;]The £1 pieces are nickel-brass coins. And while the British Royal Mint does sell silver versions of the £1 coin, those are made for collectors only. More about the regular pieces is here:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.royalmint.com/RoyalMint/web/site/Corporate/Corp_british_coinage/CoinDesign/OnePoundCoin.asp" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.royalmint.com/RoyalMint/web/site/Corporate/Corp_british_coinage/CoinDesign/OnePoundCoin.asp" rel="nofollow">http://www.royalmint.com/RoyalMint/web/site/Corporate/Corp_british_coinage/CoinDesign/OnePoundCoin.asp</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Cannot help you with the Hong Kong pieces. But back in 1970, Hong Kong was still a British colony, and the coins were used there, not in (the PR) China ...</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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