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The New Designs Revealed


No numeric figures either bet that causes problems with tourists.

stilover

Designed so everyone hates them.

We all comment that even the Euro looks better. Government survey shows people want the Euro. Government then gets it's ways and signs up to the Euro.

PeteBrant

I really like them.

JTaylor

So do I.

Leslie

Yet another way to belittle our currency. Britannia has disappeared I gather too. All this sort of thing is aimed towards destroying all this country stands for so that eventually they can give us away to the corrupt Eu and reap the rewards for that themselves

Les

mamoon2

I like them too, so what if it doesn't have numbers on (which will probably be on the back) might teach the dumb fukcwits of this country to read a bit more.

Steve vRS

I think they look good too!

Steve

Edcase

I love them! Very subjective, would be boring if we all agreed

Odds on

The numbers are on the otherside, well atleast they are on the £11k presentation set.

Dream Weaver

I like them too, about time we had a modern design and I like they way they all make up into a big shield.

J4CKO

iTrader: (1)

I think they look great.

PeteBrant

How is having the Royal coat of arms on the coins one one side, and the queens head on the other belittling the currency and all the country stands for?

PeteBrant

Those are the old reverse sides that they are selling to commemorate their pasing.

The other side still has the queens head - So you won't have a number on the new ones.

Odds on

Does anyone know whats happened to the £2 coin? Has it been dropped, or is the design just unchanged?

Paul3446

I do think, not having numbers is a fundamental design fault.

Surely it's just common sense, I'd be the first to moan if I went abroad and had to learn a whole load of words just so I could use the currency.

Odds on

They do have numbers.

unclebuck

New Britain needs New Money. All part of the rebranding exercise.

Just surprised they don't carry idealised portaits of our saviours Tony and Gordon on them.

PeteBrant

No thats two different set of coins - One is commeorating the new coins, one is commemorating the old one.

The new on is called the "Shield of arms" set - the other is called the "Emblems of britian" set.

Look here

The Platinum Collection

They don;t have the number son - Unless they ae putting them on the Queens side.

PeteBrant

On the flip side - if you don't speak the language - and someone says to you "twenty", then you have immediate knowledge of what "twenty" is, if you see what I mean - Rather than trying to work out how you say "20"

coolangatta

I think they're great! 'And come on, how long is it going to take to recognise one coin from another'?! Or are we all to be brought down to the 'hard of thinking' level? Some bleat about the nanny state and then want to have it explained in shape, colour, graphics, weight, words 'and' numerals exactly which coin they're about to hand over

Steve_PPP

iTrader: (3)

they look great, really modern style

Paul3446

"On the flip side - if you don't speak the language - and someone says to you "twenty", then you have immediate knowledge of what "twenty" is, if you see what I mean - Rather than trying to work out how you say "20" "


Fair point, but why not have both, I just think it's trying to be trendy for the sake of it.

PeteBrant

Actually, having just looked at the coins in my pocket, that's exactly what we do now - Have both.

Amazing what you don't notice in something you look at every day


But yeah, I agree have both - I mean I like the look with no numbers, but you have to have functionality over aesthetics when it comes to something like money.

scoobyster

They look pretty good to me but I agree it's lunacy not to have the numbers on them. For a foreign visitor it's more important to know what each coin is worth than be able to say it's name! I'm surprised they didn't take the opportunity to make the coppers smaller too.

r32

If you really dont like them, pass them on to me and I'll try really hard to get rid of them for you!

Odds on

The difference in the 2 sets are just which way up the collection is facing. There's another set that displays both side's of the coin.

Edit - Looking at it again, I may be a tiny bit wrong. Not much mind!

Removed.

Some parts of the UK still have them, The Channel Islands and the Isle of Man.

The two Pound coin is staying the same, as it's "relatively" new.

PeteBrant

Shield one side
Queens head the other

I'll bet you as much new coinage as you like.

I think we would had just a little bit of an outrage had they decided to remove the queens head from the coins, which is what they would have to do if the coins were as you suggest

Dave1980

i like them, certainly better than the current ones anyway.

makes them stand out a bit more, good job in my opinion.