These are actually lovely
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How many people still use cash? I doubt I’ll ever physically touch one of the King Charles notes or coins.
Need one for the shopping trolley :) And my barber - and the local kebab shop.
These designs are absolutely beautiful, though
I use cash pretty much everyday. I purposely do so over contactless. Cash is freedom. Cash is anonymous. Cash is king. Don't give up on it or you'll be sorry when it's gone.
On topic, I love the new coins.
Cash is king.
You'd be surprised. Car wash, barbers, boot sales, market stalls, charity collections, church collections, anywhere that the network or card machine is broken, village fetes, school fetes, church fates, collection boxes, people that have lost their phone or bank card.
Only for taxis where I am. So I may end up with a handful of them as change eventually.
You need it for public transport in Northern Ireland still :(
More than you'd think to be fair. Lots of older people still rely on it, and homeless people might not necessarily have a bank account or a working debit card to use at a checkout.
I wasn't expecting them to be so nice. Damn.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
An entirely new set of UK coins will start to enter circulation at the end of the year to mark the new monarch and his love of the natural world.
The tails side of every coin from the 1p to the £2 will feature the country's flora and fauna, reflecting King Charles III's passion for conservation.
Although cash use - and especially the popularity of coins - has been in decline in recent years, the Royal Mint says heritage and need mean this change is still required.
The previous set featured a shield formation and was introduced under Queen Elizabeth II in 2008, and will still dominate the 29 billion coins in circulation in the UK for some time yet.
Kevin Clancy, director of the Royal Mint Museum, said: "People who remember pre-decimal coins might recall the wren farthing, or the thrift design on the 12-sided thrupence, but it wasn't lots of natural world.
New banknotes featuring the image of King Charles are being printed in their millions but will not enter circulation until the middle of next year - some months after the coins.
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Why do we still have pennies???
Reminds me of the old Irish pounds