Where have all the 10p coins gone?

I guess they mean the 1" diameter 10p coin that replaced the 1 1/8" 2 bob bit/florin sized coin around twenty years ago.

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Anthony R. Gold
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In message , Anthony R. Gold writes

I doubt it, as I'm taking about 2012. Even in the most benighted parts of darkest, rural Northumberland, they have definitely - for many years

- been using the newfangled types of coins. [Unfortunately, they have also discovered pay-and-display parking meters.] Certainly my 2011 10p coins (yes - I checked the dates) seemed to work OK.

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Ian Jackson

But what was the date of the notice? And if "the new type of 10p" does not refer to the newest and last announced coin, then what else could it mean?

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Anthony R. Gold

In message , Anthony R. Gold writes

Well, the parking meters were pretty new (maybe two years old?), and the information (a strip of Dymotape) was on every one.

It's a heck of a long time since the old two bob bit was no longer legal tender. I have no doubt that the notices meant exactly what they said. Presumably it was because some people had found that some of their newer

10p coins had been rejected, and reported it.

However, I recall that the one-hour rate was something like £1-10, and it might have been a cunning plan by the carpark owners to get people to pay £1-20 instead.

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Ian Jackson

How did you know I touched her up in that way? Hey anything to not get 3 points.

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Major Scott

I'm surprised no one has come in with the answer to that - it was well publicised around here (Edinburgh). From the start of last year all the meters changed not to take 10p (& I think 5p?) coins. The reason given was that the coin composition was changing - to a steel core - so as to cut the cost of manufacture. It wasn't worth modifying the machines to recognise the new coins. It would depend on the recognition technology in each type of machine of course.

20p coins are now more in demand, well, alongside £1 & £2 coins. City centre charges £2.80 an hour in places...
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gordon

So, in effect, we might as well scrap the 1, 2, 5 and 10p coins (and, of course, the 1/2p went long ago). I suppose that's what Quantitative Easing does for you. How long will it be before the £2 is the only coin left in existence?

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Ian Jackson

Ian Jackson :

I already do. If I come home with any coin under 20p in my pocket, it goes into storage because I can't be bothered lugging it around any more.

My coin store is sorted into denominations (1p, 2p, 5p, 10p, foreign). It's noticeable that in the last couple of years, the 1p and 2p piles have hardly increased in size. Many places (that I pay cash in) price things in multiples of 5p nowadays. Presumably it makes the cash handling easier.

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Mike Barnes

One measure of inflation would be: what value of coin do you bother picking up from the ground? I definitely ignore 5p coins now (unless inside where they're going to make a nasty noise in the vaccuum cleaner).

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gordon

In message , gordon writes

I suppose I would pick any coin up, after first looking around to see if there was a Reality TV camera in sight.

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Gordon H

At least with this new 10p coin, dangling a magnet on a string might work well enough and so no bending will be necessary.

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Anthony R. Gold

There was a 50p coin stuck on a pole then I go past regularly. I didn't take it and it stayed there for a couple of weeks.

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Mark

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