New Coin Designs

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Simply, do you like the new look for Britain's coinage?

Poll ended at Fri 02 May, 2008 13.13

Yes
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No
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11%
Undecided
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rdobbie wrote:It's a pretty radical and unprecedented step to redesign the whole lot in one go, and give them a unified theme.
So UNPRECEDENTED it was done 40 years ago with a unified theme saying 'NEW PENCE' which lasted for 11 years!

The design and the entire currency was changed over 3 years between 1968 and 1971! I don't think anything would match that.

I like the new designs.
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Having had another look, and a few pints of Landlord and a few Jacques (but that's another story) I've taken to them - especially when you see the close-up shots on the BBC
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StuartPlymouth wrote:
rdobbie wrote:It's a pretty radical and unprecedented step to redesign the whole lot in one go, and give them a unified theme.
So UNPRECEDENTED it was done 40 years ago with a unified theme saying 'NEW PENCE' which lasted for 11 years!

The design and the entire currency was changed over 3 years between 1968 and 1971! I don't think anything would match that.
Yeah, but it had an entirely different purpose back then: decimalisation, and the "New Pence" text was the only common element. This time around it's purely for design purposes and no other reason, which is what I meant by unprecedented.
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Surprised Jamez hasn't mentioned the fact the designer is a Taffy. Matt Dent is from Bangor.
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isn't that connews?
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It's interesting that some people have identified similarities between the new coins and the Euro currency, suggesting that the government is softening the public up for later scrapping the pound sterling. I actually assumed the opposite. I would have thought that if you're going to the trouble of redesigning your coins, you'd probably have an intention of keeping them for some time. Or am I just reading too much into it?

In terms of the design though, I think they're smashing. But, I do agree with Gav's point that it's odd not to have any numerals on them to indicate their value - only the text. Not exactly friendly for tourists I would have thought - who frankly have enough trouble trying to figure out which coin is which!
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Mr Q wrote:It's interesting that some people have identified similarities between the new coins and the Euro currency, suggesting that the government is softening the public up for later scrapping the pound sterling. I actually assumed the opposite. I would have thought that if you're going to the trouble of redesigning your coins, you'd probably have an intention of keeping them for some time. Or am I just reading too much into it?
Not really "some people" - just Jamez with his crazy conspiracy theories.

A bit like CraigF used to be on this forum before he was sectioned.
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CraigF had a plastic face didn't he? Perhaps he's been reincarnated as another member of this board....
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Hymagumba wrote:CraigF had a plastic face didn't he? Perhaps he's been reincarnated as another member of this board....
It was more waxy than plastic - or am I getting confused with someone else?
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Gavin Scott wrote:
Hymagumba wrote:CraigF had a plastic face didn't he? Perhaps he's been reincarnated as another member of this board....
It was more waxy than plastic - or am I getting confused with someone else?
Didn't he have the fabricated face?
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Isonstine wrote:
Gavin Scott wrote:
Hymagumba wrote:CraigF had a plastic face didn't he? Perhaps he's been reincarnated as another member of this board....
It was more waxy than plastic - or am I getting confused with someone else?
Didn't he have the fabricated face?
No that was Jamez, post surgery.
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