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@cee-dee wrote:

So, they've made the last round Pound coin? The new Pound coin will be 12-sided but what happens to (for example) all the trollies that take a Pound coin?

 

It'll be a big job converting them and it's going to be a bit of a nuisance in the interim when some places have them converted to take the new coin and others still take the round Pound?

 

It's also gonna make it more difficult for me to make a token intead of me using a coin?

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Make a few new pound coins instead,might take a bit longer but i.m sure it will be worthwhile

I don't think there will be a rush to convert shopping trollies, car parking machines etc. The old ones won't cease to be legal tender any time soon. The old pound notes that they replaced weren't withdrawn from circulation for five years. I read today that the new coins have been designed to fit existing mechanisms, so maybe no conversion will be needed. There are 1.5 billion of the old ones in circulation and over 2 million forgeries are detected every year, so there was an obvious need to replace them with something more secure.

The new pound coin looks great and has extra security features! 

It is recomended to start trading in your old £1 coins for new pound coins from March 2017 and you can learn how to do so by visiting the new pound coin info: http://newpoundcoin.weebly.com

All things that take pound coins, should be converted to taking tokens anyway. You could then buy tokens at designated outlets, or at the venues concerned. As far as any fraudulent activity taking place, at any venues that have things that take tokens, that's up to them to sort out.....not central government. People have been shoving all sorts of tokens and made up discs, into all sorts of machines for years anyway........if the venues haven't done anything about it by now; it's obviously not making a big enough dent in their profits, to bother them too much.