(27 Mar 2017, 10:59 pm)Jamie M wrote The end of legal tender date should be in years, not months. It's rushed and it holds no benefit. They are changing a coin for cosmetic reasons only. A very large mess is left behind given companies are only finding out through the news that this is happening.
The BoE reckons there's £45m worth of fake £1 coins kicking around. I reckon thats good enough reason to justify updating a 37 year old design, for reasons other than cosmetic.