simmo wrote:Bah, they look quite nice, but it's high time for the dissolution of the £ as a currency.

Bring on the €, bitches!

Agreed. No pissing about with exchange rates, changing money to go abroad, knowing equivalent value of products in different countries.

You know it makes sense.

I like 'em! But I bet I'm going to have trouble putting these in fruit/quiz machines down the pub.

Also, how long before somebody notices (a say notices, but obviously people will be desperately trying to achieve this) that a 2p and a 10p placed together just so show an engorged cock beneath a moustached Lady Di?

Arson Smith wrote: 'One Pence' and 'Two Pence' coins...

One penny, as pence is plural. Bad penny!

i always found the english pound coins satisfying to hold in your hand. good and weighty. the new ones look nice i have to say.

i used to think it was really retarded that british people didn't want to change, as if their cultural identity resided solely in notes, coins and buying weighted goods by the pound and ounce.

now i'm not so sure. in my experience the price of EVERYTHING goes up with the euro, above general inflation that is. the service industry seems to be the worst offender. shits already expensive enough as it is in england without adding that to your worries.

This new money looks fiddly.

big_dave wrote:

lemur68 wrote:Oh, I get it! You put them all together to form Voltron!

Great, this means Wu slang for money.

From now a 50 pence piece is an ODB.

Anyone got two Chefs for a Ghostface?

falsedog wrote:

Arson Smith wrote: 'One Pence' and 'Two Pence' coins...

One penny, as pence is plural. Bad penny!

Got it now (and here I had always thought 'pence' was just some foreign word like 'centavo' or 'centime'... it didn't even register to me as plural of 'penny', because that's just 'pennies' here) hey - I learned something today! Thanks!

The old one-pound coin is one of my favorite things. New ones look pretty cool, though.

If you spend more than forty minutes in England and engage in any transaction, you end up with about a half-pound weight of coins in your pocket. Unfortunately every transaction you engage in to try to reduce the number or weight of coins only increases them in a sort of Brothers Grimm fashion.

And you can't just throw it in the street because it's worth actual money, unlike in the US.

I much prefer the US or Japanese denominations.

US: 1c 5c 10c 25c and rarely $1.
Japan: 1Y 10Y 100Y.

Plenty of coins there folks. No need for all the intermediate ones.