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Funnily, the new "most secure" pound will be introduced one day before a pretty big event, Mrs. May's Article 50 invocation, which widely predicted to devalue the pound significantly. You might buy new pounds as "secure" coins, but you'll probably some percentage of their value the next day...
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I read it with the meaning “the pound won’t be in use for long” at first which seemed rather incongruous. I was wondering whether there was something I had missed about happenings with respect to brexit (I’m Australian, never been to the UK). It took me a while to interpret it as “the shape of the pound is changing from a circle to a dodecahedron”.
If it meant that, I'd expect it to be: "The pound won’t be a round for much longer" so the original sentence is sort of a pun. Maybe "around" is a local use of English.
For a moment I thought/hoped the UK would introduce an official cryptocurrency...
"The pound won’t be round for much longer" is a pretty awful tagline, I'm not sure they realised what this sounds like...
The new coin is still called "pound", so indeed the statement makes no sense.
"The pound won’t be round for much longer" is a pretty awful tagline, I'm not sure they realised what this sounds like...
As a UK citizen, it stuns me that one-in-thirty pound coins is a fake because a) i can't imagine how it's possibly worth it b) out of the thousands of pound coins i must have handled, I've never spotted a fake - they must be very good. Still, the new coin certainly looks nice!
Some regions seem to get more than others, I used to see large numbers in the change I got in London.
The quickest "tell" for me is the lettering on the edge. Some of it is shockingly poor quality and almost looks like someone took a soldering iron to draw it on.
The next time a machine rejects one of your pound coins, take another look at it, there's a good chance it's fake.
EDIT: Here's the first page I found looking for example images:
http://www.larkinweb.co.uk/miscellany/counterfeit_one_pound_...
To my eye they look really shonky.
Edit II: A couple more examples:
http://www.cryst.co.uk/category/fake-pound-coins/
http://www.employees.org/~tw/quids/quids.html
FinalEditIPromiseNoReally:
Check out this stack, they're almost comically bad:
http://blog.alism.com/wp-content/2006/08/coinstack.jpg
(found on this blog: http://blog.alism.com/fake-one-pound-coins-part-three/)
As a UK citizen, it stuns me that one-in-thirty pound coins is a fake because a) i can't imagine how it's possibly worth it b) out of the thousands of pound coins i must have handled, I've never spotted a fake - they must be very good. Still, the new coin certainly looks nice!
Is counterfeiting coins very lucrative?
For a moment I thought/hoped the UK would introduce an official cryptocurrency...
Reading the title that's exactly what I expected, discovering that it was simply a redesign of an actual coin was a let down. I guess this is related to the UK being close to falling apart due to brexit.
