If you’ve a piggy bank or coin jar, watch out– your £1 coins will soon be unspendable

Former_MSE_Karl · 14 February 2017 at 3:34PM

'The new 12-sided £1 coin is being rolled out next month, and the current round version will stop being legal tender on 15 October. After that, if you still have any old £1 coins, you won’t be able to spend them...'

Read MSE Karl's full blog: 'If you’ve a piggy bank or coin jar, watch out – your £1 coins will soon be unspendable'[URL=

VfM4meplse · 14 February 2017 at 3:39PM

I make a point of buying coin trolley tokens from charity shops, these too will be redundant.

Farway · 14 February 2017 at 4:12PM

VfM4meplse wrote: »

I make a point of buying coin trolley tokens from charity shops, these too will be redundant.

I reckon the trollies will be modified to take the new £ coins, so the old tokens will be of no use except as collector items

[Deleted User] · 14 February 2017 at 4:40PM

haven't got the problem of a jar full of pound coins

all of mine get spent

:):)

LameWolf · 14 February 2017 at 5:21PM

We save any £2 coins we get in a tin, so will look out for these going the same way.

[Deleted User] · 14 February 2017 at 5:46PM

Hi,

oh, like the style of new coin,

just like the auld Scottish threepenny,

Prinzessilein · 14 February 2017 at 6:34PM

I remember the old threpenny bit (in England)...I used to get one in pocket money.

I could buy a comic...a thirsty pak drink (Dandelion and Burdock please!)...a bag of penny mix up (no bubble gum please, mum doesn't let me have it!)...and a small pack of corn puff snacks...and STILL have a ha-penny left for the money box!

You wouldn't get THAT value for a pound these days!

As for pounds, I don't save them, they get spent!....if I DO have any left when the new coins come out I'm guessing the banks will swap them for me....although I am currently with the N&P so am changing banks (they are cancelling all current accounts grrrrrrrrrrrr!)

monnagran · 14 February 2017 at 8:45PM

Love the nostalgia of the old thrupenny bits.

I had a bedsitter when I started teaching. It had a picture rail all round the room. I collected up every thrupenny bit that came my way and stood them around this picture rail. I got all round the room, and it was not a small one.

Those threepenny bits paid for my wedding dress, headdress, veil and all the bridesmaids dresses.

Ah! Memories.

x

trailingspouse · 14 February 2017 at 10:18PM

You might not be able to spend them in the shops but you will be able to exchange them at banks for the new ones.

[Deleted User] · 15 February 2017 at 9:11AM

I had 9d pocket money when I was a little girl more than my two brothers who had none and were expected to work to earn any cash (although as I got older I too used to do extra things to earn a few pennies My pocket money was blown on 6d for saturday morning cinema and 3d for a banana split palm toffee bar, guaranteed to remove most of your fillings at times.Sweet not long being off ration in 1954 buying a small bar of toffee was like winning the lottery

usernameisvalid · 15 February 2017 at 9:49AM

We stopped saving the £1 coins last year when the new plastic fivers came out

DH has made a 'money box' for them out of some Perspex he had lying around. It's basically a rectangular box with the thinnest slit to slide a fresh new fiver in

No we aren't rich

We both gave up smoking in January and now we put our smoking money in there in the way of fivers

I'm planning a long haul holiday for next year, hopefully we will have the money saved to upgrade to BC by then

PLEASE READ BEFORE POSTING

If you’ve a piggy bank or coin jar, watch out– your £1 coins will soon be unspendable

Comments

Confirm your email address to Create Threads and Reply

🚀 Getting Started

Categories

Is this how you want to be seen?

Get our FREE Weekly email full of deals & guides - and it’s spam-free