The first £1 coins featuring the King have entered circulation, with collectors encouraged to look out for the historic addition to the nation’s change. Nearly three million of the new designs ...

"One in 30 pound coins is counterfeit, and that costs businesses and the taxpayer millions each year," Mr Osborne continued. "So I can announce that we will move to a new, highly secure, £1 coin ...

Your pound coins will be worthless in October Credit: Alamy. The missing fortune is thought to be stashed in piggy banks, ... The currency change was announced in the 2014 Budget.

The Royal Mint unveiled Wednesday a new 12-sided pound coin made with two separate metals, in a radical redesign of the old coin’s look. The new currency has been in the works for 30 years and ...

It has the pound symbol that changes to the number '1' when the coin is seen from different angles and is thinner and lighter than the current coin. The currency change was announced in the 2014 ...

Police have discovered that an illegal mint in China is now able to counterfeit, or forge, both the €2 euro coin and the £2 coin. While this isn't actually desirable it's also not a great ...

So will the first Charles III pound coins one day be of equal value? What do the new coins look like? The £1 coin is part of a series of eight new designs, ranging from the 1p to the £2 coin ...

Image: Wikimedia (Creative Commons licence) In any case, the reason there's a unicorn on the pound coin is because—for the last 700 years, at least—the unicorn has been used in heraldry to ...

Brits still carrying around old round pound coins can no longer use them to buy goods - but it's not too late to swap them for new coins. On October 15 2017, the round pound ceased to be legal tender.

When do old pound coins and £10 notes expire ... The new polymer currency is being released into circulation on September 14, 2017. In addition, a new £20 note will be produced in three years time.