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bargar Valued Member Canada 80 Posts	Posted 10/06/2023 3:29 pm Will be visiting London and I have these coins and not sure if I can spend them or any that I should keep? Thank you. Report this Post to the Staff

PaddyB Pillar of the Community United Kingdom 945 Posts	Posted 10/06/2023 3:46 pm All the smaller denominations - 20p downwards - are still in circulation and so can be spent anywhere. The £1 coins you have are all old type and shops no longer will accept them in most cases. They can be paid in at Post Offices or Banks, though they may insist you are paying them into an account or purchasing some other service. Report this Post to the Staff
andyg Pillar of the Community United Kingdom 1316 Posts	Posted 10/06/2023 4:09 pm Banks appear to have stopped taking old £1's along with the old 5/10 and 50 pence coins. Report this Post to the Staff
bargar Valued Member Canada 80 Posts	Posted 10/06/2023 11:09 pm Thank you both for your replies Report this Post to the Staff
Spyro Valued Member United Kingdom 383 Posts	Posted 10/08/2023 03:21 am Hi. They're right about the pound coins but I've got a feeling that if you give the bank a pile of 10 of them they'll change them for you. If they're in exceptionally good condition they might be worth holding on to. Not really worth enough to sell yet. Report this Post to the Staff
Collector28 Valued Member United Kingdom 251 Posts	Posted 10/08/2023 08:00 am You can't use the old pounds anymore, however they're kind of fun and I'd encourage you to hang on to them for curiosity purposes instead of condemning them to the melting pot :) Report this Post to the Staff
bargar Valued Member Canada 80 Posts	Posted 10/09/2023 10:25 am Thank you for the 2 new replies. I am going to leave them at home :) Report this Post to the Staff
PaddyB Pillar of the Community United Kingdom 945 Posts	Posted 10/11/2023 03:42 am Just to clarify on the £1 coins - they can still be paid into most banks. I checked with mine (Barclays in Exeter, Devon) yesterday. That is not to say you might be better hanging on to them. At present the collecting market for them seems completely dead, but in a few years - who knows? Report this Post to the Staff
NumisRob Bedrock of the Community United Kingdom 17922 Posts	Posted 10/11/2023 06:24 am with PaddyB. I work as a tour guide and frequently change old £1 coins for new ones with my customers when they bring them back from previous visits to the UK and discover they can't spend them. My local branch of the HSBC Bank is still happy to change them. I tend to keep ones in EF or better condition (and scarcer ones like the capital cities coins of 2010-1) but I don't think there will ever be any collector demand for heavily circulated worn specimens, especially from the very high mintage years of 1983-5, plenty of which were put aside in Uncirculated condition at the time of issue. My Trade List: https://goccf.com/t/194596 My Wants List: https://goccf.com/t/191710 Edited by NumisRob 10/11/2023 07:36 am Report this Post to the Staff
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