The Royal Mint in the U.K. has unveiled a new 1-pound coin that it says will be the world's most counterfeit-proof coin.. The 12-sided coin, which is set to be released by 2017, will still feature ...

Pound coins with the King's portrait on them to enter circulation this week. ... The £1 coin depicts a pair of British bees on the ‘tails’ side, ... rose, daffodil, thistle and shamrock. ...

The design for the new pound coin includes a rose, a thistle, a leek and a shamrock to reflect the four parts of the UK. In the past there have been 25 different designs on the pound coin.

The Thistle and Bluebell £1 coin was released in 2014 as part of the floral emblems series. It has a mintage figure of 5,185,000 and scores a 55 in the Scarcity Index, coming in fourth place.

The new £1 coin is supposed to be much harder to fake. British teenager David Pearce must feel like a million bucks after the government unveiled his winning design for the nation's new one pound ...

Brits still carrying around old round pound coins can no longer use them to buy goods - but it's not too late to swap them for new coins. On October 15 2017, the round pound ceased to be legal tender.

The Royal Mint said more than 2.5% of all £1 coins currently in circulation -- approximately 1 in 40 -- are fake. The new pound is being hailed by the Royal Mint as the most secure coin in the world.

LONDON: The new 12-sided one pound coin - that will enter circulation in the UK in March this year - is the most secure coin in the world, thanks to a number of ...

T he new British one pound coin has been designed by a 15-year-old who beat out more than 6,000 entries. ... leek, thistle and shamrock emerging from a Royal Coronet, reports Sky News.

Image: Wikimedia (Creative Commons licence) In any case, the reason there's a unicorn on the pound coin is because—for the last 700 years, at least—the unicorn has been used in heraldry to ...

The new 12-sided £1 coin will finally be here on 28 March. It's the first time the pound coin has been changed in more than 30 years. The old coin became a problem as they were easily illegally ...