New UK Coins revealed

[DiBiase is Good]

Towards the end of the year in the UK, all new coins will be phased in (except for the £2 coin).

Here's a link to the story

Personally, I think these coins look really good. But we have a new face on the £1 coin every year and the £2 and 50p coins often have special designs on them.

[Deleted]

Don't know if I like them. What's wrong with the current ones? Just by looking at the 1p coin, it looked too much like an American coin.

[The Wrestling Rambler]

Looks good. Unfortunatly the other side will no doubt have the head of that useless lazy cow.

[Loki]

They look nice.

I still think it's unfair the U.K. (along with Denmark and Sweden) managed to keep their currency while all the other EU countries had to accept that fake Monopoly money.

I f'n hate Euros

[Bo Rida]

Um there's no numerics on them, how are foreigners meant to understand.

At least they still look more or less the same unlike those crappy £20 notes, I thought that was a Euro note when I first saw it.

I love the BBC article on this, it says loosing the beading doesn't madder as he "wouldn't say it went back more than a couple of hundred years ", WTF so that's all right then is it?
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7328107.stm

[4real]

I know what the normal ones look like so why would I want new one's? Saying that it would be nice to have different people on the coins, Cesc Fabregas means more to me than the Queen does and he ain't even English.

[DiBiase is Good]

My opinion has changed because of the lack of Britannia on the 50p.

[maxx420]

Apr 3, 2008 13:31:40 GMT -5 Bo Rida said:

At least they still look more or less the same unlike those crappy £20 notes, I thought that was a Euro note when I first saw it.

When those new £20 notes first came in, I tried to pay for the bus from Wakefield to Leeds using one as I had nothing smaller on me. The driver (perhaps hearing my accent & mistaking it for a Scottish one) saw me trying to pay with the note & said "We don't take Scottish". I unfolded the note & said "It's not Scottish, it's English!" I pointed out the words Bank of England & said "Look, there's the Queen & everything." His reply "Oh... we don't take £20s."
In other words, I'd made a tit of you & you didn't want to shown up. Git!

Anyway... Those coins do look quite good, but I agree that the lack of numerics might make it a tad confusing for foreigners. I like how they all make up one large design, though.

[biafra]

Wait...you don't use chips or rock of various shapes and sizes?

[Spyke the Pacers Fan]

Your 2 pound coin looks bling-bling.

[Bo Rida]

Apr 3, 2008 14:20:02 GMT -5 Spyke the Pacers Fan said:

Your 2 pound coin looks bling-bling.

You should see the version with the spinner, although it disrespects the heritage of the royal mint.

[Next Level was WRONG]

Meh, call me when they release a 30p coin. That would be so damned convenient.

[bubbles]

They look cack.

['Foretold' Joker]

I like them, a change is as good as a rest.

[B'Cup x]

I see them becoming very dated

[spec]

The £1 looks pretty good, but having the others with fragments of one big design? What the hell's the point of that? They're coins, not jigsaw puzzle pieces. Dumb.