The Queen gets the safest piece of money in the world: The new one-pound piece is to be tamper-proof. While the British mourn the old coin, they can have a say in what is mapped back to the new one. The front is already occupied.

For more than 30 years, the big fat chunk of money in circulation – now the British have to say goodbye to him . The current one-pound coin gets a successor . The new coin to be particularly secure against forgery would , introduced in 2017 , the British government said on Wednesday . After 30 years of ” faithful service ” it was time to send the old one-pound coin in retirement, said finance minister George Osborne . Replaced them going through ” the safest piece of money in the world” . A British pound is just 1.20 euros .

The new coin is different from its predecessor have two different metallic colors and a twelve-sided edge . Is on the front , as on all British coins , Queen Elizabeth II shown. About the design of the other side should be decided in a public competition .
” Coins of high value as the one-pound coin ” are more and more vulnerable to counterfeiting , said Minister Osborne . To protect the money , it is therefore important to ” the criminals a few steps ahead .” It is estimated that approximately three percent of the outstanding one-pound coins are fake , that would be 45 million pieces.

It was recently reported that the novelist Jane Austen will be seen in 2017 on the ten-pound bank note – her most famous work is “Pride and Prejudice ” .

Personalities from different fields adorn repeatedly British banknotes. In April, the Bank of England had announced : From 2016, the politician Winston Churchill will be mapped to the five-pound note .

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