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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;onecenter, post: 1889029, member: 8703&quot;]Very true.&nbsp; Also to consider, the British government has also withdrawn legal tender status to decimal coins that have been reduced in size or eliminated from the coinage system.&nbsp; Examples are the half penny in 1984, the five pence and ten pence reduced in size in 1990 and 1992, respectively and the fifty pence was trimmed down in 1997.&nbsp; The larger versions of the 5-, 10- and 50-pence are no longer legal tender.&nbsp; To pull out all the counterfeits, the government may do the same and withdraw legal tender status of the 1983-2016 coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>I would not be surprised to see that the same action could be taken once a large number of new 12-sided one pound coins are minted and well into circulation.&nbsp; The bimetallic two-pound coin took two years to implement, but the sheer number of one pound coins needed for daily commerce would be extremely large.&nbsp; Back in 1983, when the first nickel-brass one pound coins were issued, just over 443 million of the coins had to be minted.&nbsp; Undoubtedly, a similar number would be required for circulation three years hence.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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