Has anyone seen any yet?
Apparently meant to be issued last year, but held up by approval from vending machine companies. The new circulation five pence and ten pence coins are going to be thicker. Not sure if they will still have same diameter, or what the obverse and reverse will look like yet. I saw a link yesterday - will add it tonight. Thanks
I hate the current design of our (UK) coins with a passion i hope and pray they have improved them or i might have to move to a country where they are capable of using their imagination when designing theirs, i mean how hard could it really be its not rocket science we have a rich heritage and future to draw inspiration from and what do we end up with, its like the royal mint thinks the British people are all brain dead morons that think their design is refreshing and modern.
That's better now i can go back to my usual English repressed emotions.
Already created by someone, those will be where anyone who gets one can enter them - and looks like some members already have! Do they know that these are not the 2011 old issue? No members currently with any to exchange, but both coins already shows 87 Rarity Index.
Apparently they will still have the same obverse and reverse images as previous versions, and the same diameter, and still have a milled edge - but that edge will be about 10% thicker. Due to cost-cutting they will no longer be made of copper-nickel, but now they will be magnetic (steel with a nickel coating).
So not a complete redesign that I (and alastair) was expecting, it seems. Unless anyone can tell by feel such a small thickness increase, the only way to tell is a magnet. Similar occurred with Canada coins I seem to remember (silver to nickel) - which otherwise both versions look the same.
And no mention of the other two copper-nickel coins, the twenty and fifty pence, so they are safe for now.
Gutted their not changing the coin design but i think its a good idea to debase the coinage, i think it should have been done years ago. If the money we use is meant to be a representation of wealth and not the actual wealth its sealth why use expencive metals
Thanks ZacUK for the link, I like the Jersey, Guernsey coin also their bank notes too, will this also do this to the Isle of Man coins too ??? And I agree with pnightingale, I love the older UK coins.
I got my first new design coin today - a 2012 five pence.
Same diameter, and same obverse and reverse.
It is magnetic, and slightly thicker.
I guess the extra thickness is to keep the weight the same.
It is on the right in these three pictures ...
I just realized I had a couple of the new 10p's in my change the other day and the reason I knew they must have been the new type was that they wouldn't work in the parking ticket machine at my local Sainsburys!
Just because you can't see it ... doesn't mean it isn't there - Anon.
That is why the release was delayed for ages; until all machines could be adapted to take both old and new coins. So I guess not all have been sorted yet, or the owners do not think it is worth it, given the percentage of new versus old. There is more on one of my links above, I seem to remember. So apart from the weight and diameter being the same, I think they will not be recognised as the third factor is a metal 'signature' - it is not expecting the steel inside the new coins.
P.S. So this topic also links with the automated tills topic - wonder if the tills have been adapted ?
Oh dear
Apart from still only finding the very occasional new five pence (still waiting to find a new ten pence - and it is half-way through the year) looks like these steel-centred coins may be rubbish.
Today's pocket change brought up this one below - the obverse looks a bit battered, but the reverse ...
So a knock on the edge lets in water, thus causing rust - and as already said these have been out less than six months. Eventually I can foresee people getting cut on the sharp edges, and getting infections ...
Actually, it occurs to me that then the whole coin could rust away, so I would have lost five pence.
P.S. Shame for the next generation of metal-detectorists also. Oh, and I have previously read Topics on here that say certain ways of storing a collection attracts moisture ...
Cita: ZacUKOh dear
Apart from still only finding the very occasional new five pence (still waiting to find a new ten pence - and it is half-way through the year) looks like these steel-centred coins may be rubbish.
Today's pocket change brought up this one below - the obverse looks a bit battered, but the reverse ...
So a knock on the edge lets in water, thus causing rust - and as already said these have been out less than six months. Eventually I can foresee people getting cut on the sharp edges, and getting infections ...
Actually, it occurs to me that then the whole coin could rust away, so I would have lost five pence.
P.S. Shame for the next generation of metal-detectorists also. Oh, and I have previously read Topics on here that say certain ways of storing a collection attracts moisture ...
No I have not, only just heard about week ago, thank you ZacUK !!! 
That's not good??? 
