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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Legomaster1, post: 3568435, member: 101260&quot;]I had a bag of foreign coinage that was purchased a while back. As I didn’t have time to sort through it, I’ve forgotten about it after a couple of years.</p><p>Yesterday, I rediscovered it, and thought it would be an interesting weekend activity.</p><p>However, one of the coins happened to be quite distinctive- an old English pound.</p><p><br /></p><p>These “round pounds” were meant for the replacement of £1 notes, and were first minted in 1983. Old paper £1 notes were withdrawn in 1984.</p><p><br /></p><p>Recently, in an effort to thwart forgers, the Royal Mint last issued the round pound in 2016, and introduced a dodecagonal bimetallic pound in that same year.</p><p>The British Museum happens to have a display of counterfeit round pounds that have been seized.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]949762[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The last day for spending old £1 coins was October 15, 2017.</p><p>So, I missed that deadline by almost 2 years. Now, the coin has to be exchanged by being taken to a bank (in the UK).</p><p>That seems like too much hassle for just 1 pound.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]949751[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]949753[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Comparison of 1991 £1, and 2016 £1 I received on my trip to the UK last year.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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