What can I do with old pound coins?

21 comments

1. A lot of charity shops will take them.

2. You should be able to change them at a bank or post office.

3. https://lmgtfy.app/?q=old+pound+coins

4. You can pay old currency into your bank account, but the bank won’t exchange old for new.

5. I’d just keep them as a souvenir tbh

6. The Bank of England will always take old notes, for coins I wonder if you’ve got to go to the Royal Mint? I hear Llantrisant is lovely this time of year.

7. Eat them. They’re high in riboflavin

8. You can drill holes into them. In the past I’ve connected multiple on a string and made a nice necklace. Cheaper than Etsy to make it yourself!

9. People seem to be listing them on eBay for £850+.

   Not sure this is likely to be fruitful.

10. Supermarket trolley token

11. Try using them in a vending machine or car park machine they might still work and then it’s someone else’s problem.

12. Throw them at the referee at the fitbah?

13. A Post Office can take them and pay them in to your account.

    A bank won’t as they only accept legal tender.

14. Pop them up your bum

15. What you can do is paint one side white with a black dot in the centre. Then if you do that twice and have two, what you can do then is clasp them in both eyes, like you would a monocle. After a few hours practise and you’ve mastered doing that in a way so casually, that it doesn’t make you look like you’re pushing excessively against an impacted turd, you can use them to catch forty winks on the sly. As a side hustle you can now travel the country challenging people to staring competitions for cash.

16. Put them in a sock and fight your way out of this fucking mess.

17. I’ll give you 5p each.

18. Take them to any high street bank.

19. I play poker with a banker and he’s taken old pound coins for us so I think banks _could_. They just chose not to.

20. Make a monument to the late queen, if you’ve got enough pound coins to do a project like that

21. give them to me, and i’ll take them to the bank.