Check your change!

photome

Check your change is something you should always do but in this instance I am a little confused as the new £1 coin and a 1Euro coin are a different shape

System

photome wrote: »

Check your change is something you should always do but in this instance I am a little confused as the new £1 coin and a 1Euro coin are a different shape

People that got visual problems find it difficult to notice differences. I get customers (mainly elderly) who hand over their purse or handful of coins for us to take the money that is required. You may have done this in a foreign country

marliepanda

ScarletMarble wrote: »

People that got visual problems find it difficult to notice differences. I get customers (mainly elderly) who hand over their purse or handful of coins for us to take the money that is required. You may have done this in a foreign country

In that case though, checking isn't going to do a lot of difference if they can't see the difference!

photome

ScarletMarble wrote: »

People that got visual problems find it difficult to notice differences. I get customers (mainly elderly) who hand over their purse or handful of coins for us to take the money that is required. You may have done this in a foreign country

None of which has anything to do with your opening post.

I still dont get how you can confuse a new 12 sided £1 coin with a round 1Euro

SpammyTheSpammer

I would be happy to get a 1 eu coin in my change....

Gers

photome wrote: »

None of which has anything to do with your opening post.

I still dont get how you can confuse a new 12 sided £1 coin with a round 1Euro

The OP didn't confuse them, it was the buyers who offered them for payment and the OP refused them as she identified them as Euros.

DoaM

As an aside ... I just got 2 of the new £1 coins in my change at lunch today - the first ones I've seen.

Fizzoid

DoaM wrote: »

As an aside ... I just got 2 of the new £1 coins in my change at lunch today - the first ones I've seen.

Will you be sticking them up on Facebook for £500 each as seems to be the current trend?

photome wrote: »

I still dont get how you can confuse a new 12 sided £1 coin with a round 1Euro

Because the colours are the same and even though it's 12 sided, the new £1 coin is quite rounded, so anyone in a hurry may well not notice the difference

HB58

I saw my first new £1 coins yesterday - and was surprised at how rounded they are. I was expecting them to be much more angular. So I can understand how people are getting confused.

NBLondon

I got a couple a fortnight ago (it helps that I work near to one of the banks that issued them on Day 1) and I agree - they are more rounded than the old thruppenny bit. The flat edges alternate between milled and plain - so that's supposed to be the clue for the visually impaired to detect them by feel.


I haven't seen an old fiver for at least 6 weeks - presumably shops are banking them and the banks are withdrawing them.