Minister celebrates 'tipping point' in pound coin replacement - Daily Mail
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Channel: Daily Mail World · 2018 · News & Politics
It means shops and businesses are no longer obliged to accept them, although there will be an unspecified period during which they can be exchanged at banks for the new 12-sided coins. The new coins are made by recycling the old ones and more than two million a day are being melted down at the Royal Mint’s fortress-like foundry, in Llantrisant, outside Cardiff. Workers feed 55,000 old coins at a time into four furnaces, where they are melted at 1,500C. Original Article: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4959470/Quick-ve-got-spend-400m-Sunday.html Original Video: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/news/video-1508325/Minister-celebrates-tipping-point-pound-coin-replacement.html Daily Mail Facebook: http://facebook.com/dailymail Daily Mail IG: http://instagram.com/dailymail Daily Mail Snap: https://www.snapchat.com/discover/Daily-Mail/8392137033 Daily Mail Twitter: http://twitter.com/MailOnline Daily Mail Pinterest: http://pinterest.co.uk/dailymail Daily Mail Google+: https://plus.google.com/+DailyMail/posts Get the free Daily Mail mobile app: http://dailymail.co.uk/mobile
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