Off Topic the new quid coin

Is this the new quid on the block?

 

With cash? If I even used credit cards? Really?

 

Never mind, too subtle for you obvs.

 

I'm not sure they're that clueless. £1 coins circulate enough that they just need to have a few thousand as a sample in a few places and it would be pretty accurate.

Yeah they're generally really obviously fake if you can be bothered to look, most people can't be arsed with it which as you say means it's "as good as" anyway. The colouring is off, and also comes off to reveal the silver covered metal underneath if you scratch them with another coin. The heads and tails sides tend not to line up with each other properly. The metal used is usually softer than the real coins so you can actually mark them with your teeth reasonably easily. The metal being less dense also means that although the coins are the same size of circle, in order to be able to bank them they need to weigh the same so they're slightly thicker (you're not going to see that, but you'll see the effects). This causes problems with vending machines, and with some of the things supermarkets put on trolleys to get you to return them to right places when you're done with them.

 

And about the same, in actual value. "This will not, of course, affect the pound in your pocket." (Yer darlin' 'Arold, for our mature posters.)

 

you're confusing them with chocolate coins. We've all done it.

 

How's that, part, the same value.? I don't get that.! I thought £1 coin is the equitant of 100pence pieces...Explain.

 

Huh? You seem to be a very confused young lady. Please don't PM me with an unintelligible reply.

 

Ah, You picked up on that Did Ya..Hehehe

 

How much did a Mars Bar cost, pre-decimalisation? Or a house? How much do the SAME items cost today? Gerrit now?

 

wot meen "equitant", girl bouquet?

 

Fuuuny! Finally, somebody else gets it!
Maybe this board should be re-titled 'Pulling Teeth'? (Added comments expunged, to avoid death threats from the Power People).
(Falls asleep, amid silence, apart from 'er indoors snoring.).

 

No, chocolate ones are usually old style £2 coins. That "We've all done it" thing is why they had to switch from the single element make up to the current silver coin in a gold ring format so that the foil on the chocolate coins was instantly distinguishable.

 

I remember when decimalisation came in a Mars bar being 3p and a packet of Snaps 2p

 

I remember the first decimal coins I spent. It was on a Devonshire Split from a bakery on Anlaby Common...

 

is that fancy talk for an orgy?

 

Oh for f...

Inflation.

 

"Looks like the old threepenny bit" which of course Patty remembers as he is an adult of over 45 years of age and definitely not a child using Dad's computer.

 

Devonshire Splits from Mackmans where lovely