I still prefer the old £1 note. It’s seemed to have greater buying value than the coins. I never used to break into a £1 note from my purse if I had a 10/- to use up first. You felt quite poor when the green notes had to be used…aye, those were the days Christopher…..🙂
As an auto electrician I am always removing trim, seats, carpets etc. and find quite a lot of old pound coins, I just chuck them in a celebrations tin.I must have about 150 or so,most of them green😊. I have used them for egr blanking on various vehicles and even machined a couple on my lathe to make a pair of stepped spacers, they were the perfect width.
I am not a big coin hunter, I kept one of the old £1 coins, and some of the 50ps coin as I noticed some nice designs on the coins, like Olympics 2012, Isaac Newton etc. I am more of a collected of keeping coins when I go on holidays and usually the smallest note possible,
I have a very clear memory roughly 1983 when I was 6 years old standing In a queue at a shop and seeing a tv news story about the introduction of these coming into circulation.
Oh the nostalgia!!! I am in agreement with you Christopher, why not do commemoratives in the new pounds like they used to? Give us collectors something else to look out for being my principal motivation but would provide another vehicle with which to highlight more aspects of this country and it’s peoples.....opportunity missed! 🤷♂️
My grandad had loads of the Welsh Dragon pounds. Used to give us £1.20 for them, this will have been the 1995 ones as we'd stopped by the time the 2000s came in.
hey christopher! love your videos, they’re informative and also fun to watch! i’m from the isle of man 🇮🇲 so as soon as i saw “hill” in the middle of your coins, i knew what it would be. i got really excited when you pulled out the tynwald hill coin! and loved that it was your star find :) this video is a year old, so you probably know this already but that coin is of tynwald hill in st john’s, isle of man. the round pound coin is still in circulation here! they’re far less common than the newer ones obviously, but they’re definitely still knocking about! i love that particular design. i don’t see it often but i found one in my change recently and was very happy, so i kept it :)
Such a nostalgic hunt. I collected one of every design for my collection. Some designs were minted more than once but just one of each was enough for me. I have a number from The Isle of Man, my favourite being the one with the chapel on it. I also have a number of designs from Gibraltar, my favourite being St George and the dragon. I have one from the Channel Isles and the Falkland Isles too. My favourite is an extremely rare milled but unstuck round pound which has an edge inscription but is blank on both sides. I have the last round pound too 😁
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@@elliottprice6084 telling me to get a life when your probably 50 and telling someone on youtube who clearly doesn’t care your little fable about coins no one cares and get off youtube and go have your 3rd divorce
Great video I really like the design on the old round pound coins, I have a complete date run proof 1£ coins. Impressed you rember that there are 2 2015 shield coins with different queens portraits. The last pound coins were 2016, really wish the royal mint would do commemorative £1 coins again.
I have a handful I was planning to cash in. I'm not a big collector, I just enjoy the designs. Should I be looking to sell them instead 🤔 and where? Sorry if this is not appropriate to ask here.
You can swop them on the change checker app (no money to change hands). Look up old round pound on eBay where you can sell them, just make sure you add the cost of postage and the percentage that eBay sticks on for the use of the site
@@maried500 yeah. keep hold of them they will be worth to keep, i recently purchased a old coffee jar that had lots old British pennies inside the dates ranged from 1775-1945 i got it for 8 pounds but its worth an estimated value of 200-300 pounds must of been 600 of them best to hang on to coins.
For every coin handed back to the banks ,the coins are melted down and put back into the mint to be reissued in the edges of the new pound coins and 2 pound coins ,so making them a little rarer .
the strike quality (or wearing) of many of these is appaling, are you sure some are not counterfeits ? , and why did the bank not send these back to (the mint ? for destruction ? or is the cost of handling too great for them ?)
Absolute delight to see these old coins again. well done on securing them from your bank. Very decent of the cashier to help out. Keep up with the cracking content mate. Never a dull moment.
I have an old round pound from 2003 that has St George slaying the dragon on it with the words Amicus - Christi - Georgius wrote on left, top , and right hand side of the front of the coin. initialled JC. Is that coin in your round pound book? Do you know if its rare?
A different hunt. Very interesting things happen to those who talk to the right people and establish that relationship with their bank. I agree with the Isle of Man coin being the star find here.
What a fantastic chance to see these old coins! I have a few in my collection, I have most coins - awesome as always Christopher! Keep up the great work
You ought to learn to spot forgeries, if you don't know what you're looking for, forged pound coins are badly worn and sometimes black residue will be left behind on your hands if you rub the coin.
I've got everything crossed for new commemorative £1's. A new set of UK Capitals would be amazing on them....who am I kidding? It's hard enough wishing for 50ps. Very interesting this though, they feel like 50 years ago, not 5 😂👍
The withdrawal of the old pound coins was a bit of a bodge job, if I remember correctly. Hundreds of millions of old pound coins have avoided the Royal Mint crucible, so its not surprising that you managed to get a hundred of them: good relations with the bank pay off. Round pounds were badly out of date and did desperately need replacing, due to the fakes, but I still miss them all the same. One of my favourites is the 2006 Egyptian Bridge design and the 3 lions design.
I had a lot the mother in law collected, no idea what to do so I banked a number of them. I think a few were fakes. I told my laundrette not to change their coin acceptors as they could just sell the round pounds as tokens - 10 for £10 , which they would get back immediately any way.
Hi Christopher. That was good fun. I will have a look at my collection to remind myself which of the coins I have. I think quite a few including a number of the territories. Thanks for the memories.
Oooo pound coin hunt. I asked my bank if they have any round pounds but they said they couldn't give them to me as they are no longer in circulation. Is that correct?
I can’t believe anyone would pay more than £1 for any of them. The bridges used to turn up in change quite often. The daffodils were probably the most common flower I used to see (maybe it was just the one that stuck in my head more) and as for the cities I don’t think I ever saw the Cardiff but maybe it depends on where you live a bit as well.
im from Moscow originally, but i lived in Stockport from 1988 till 1993 and visited the UK lots of times after, and I have a lot of coins from that era!) i never thought this could happen, because in my mind it was the thickest coin i ever touched. and I love coins, I’ve touched quite a few😂
I remember the day I first saw a non round coin back in 2016 when I was in year 7 my mother had let me have it. What a long time it seems now since then
Sucks to be me. I used to throw my £1 coins into an old cognac bottle from my change. I handed them all into the bank when the £1 change over came. Most were shiny & uncirculated. I had all the rare ones & didn't know they had value. Over 1500 £1 coins were handed in. Luckily I kept three Kew garden 50p's though.
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I still prefer the old £1 note. It’s seemed to have greater buying value than the coins. I never used to break into a £1 note from my purse if I had a 10/- to use up first. You felt quite poor when the green notes had to be used…aye, those were the days Christopher…..🙂
As an auto electrician I am always removing trim, seats, carpets etc. and find quite a lot of old pound coins, I just chuck them in a celebrations tin.I must have about 150 or so,most of them green😊. I have used them for egr blanking on various vehicles and even machined a couple on my lathe to make a pair of stepped spacers, they were the perfect width.
I am not a big coin hunter, I kept one of the old £1 coins, and some of the 50ps coin as I noticed some nice designs on the coins, like Olympics 2012, Isaac Newton etc. I am more of a collected of keeping coins when I go on holidays and usually the smallest note possible,
I have a very clear memory roughly 1983 when I was 6 years old standing In a queue at a shop and seeing a tv news story about the introduction of these coming into circulation.
Oh the nostalgia!!! I am in agreement with you Christopher, why not do commemoratives in the new pounds like they used to? Give us collectors something else to look out for being my principal motivation but would provide another vehicle with which to highlight more aspects of this country and it’s peoples.....opportunity missed! 🤷♂️
They do. I have seen a william Shakespeare one atleast
Because the surface area is too small due to the bi-metalic design?
My grandad had loads of the Welsh Dragon pounds. Used to give us £1.20 for them, this will have been the 1995 ones as we'd stopped by the time the 2000s came in.
Hello from Poland, I have round one pound coin with dragon from 2000 and dragon inside circle from 1994 😊I like those coins very much 😅 bye🤗
hey christopher! love your videos, they’re informative and also fun to watch!
i’m from the isle of man 🇮🇲 so as soon as i saw “hill” in the middle of your coins, i knew what it would be. i got really excited when you pulled out the tynwald hill coin! and loved that it was your star find :)
this video is a year old, so you probably know this already but that coin is of tynwald hill in st john’s, isle of man.
the round pound coin is still in circulation here! they’re far less common than the newer ones obviously, but they’re definitely still knocking about!
i love that particular design. i don’t see it often but i found one in my change recently and was very happy, so i kept it :)
Such a nostalgic hunt. I collected one of every design for my collection. Some designs were minted more than once but just one of each was enough for me. I have a number from The Isle of Man, my favourite being the one with the chapel on it. I also have a number of designs from Gibraltar, my favourite being St George and the dragon. I have one from the Channel Isles and the Falkland Isles too. My favourite is an extremely rare milled but unstuck round pound which has an edge inscription but is blank on both sides. I have the last round pound too 😁
dont care
@@TheArcade27so what? If you can't be nice, don't reply
@@elliottprice6084 don’t care we didn’t ask for your little story
@@TheArcade27 who's "we"? I'm allowed to put what I want in a message. Who are you to say that I can't say what I did? Or are you just being petty and jealous? Get a life you nasty piece of work
@@elliottprice6084 telling me to get a life when your probably 50 and telling someone on youtube who clearly doesn’t care your little fable about coins no one cares and get off youtube and go have your 3rd divorce
I still really miss the old £1 pound notes ,
Great video I really like the design on the old round pound coins, I have a complete date run proof 1£ coins. Impressed you rember that there are 2 2015 shield coins with different queens portraits. The last pound coins were 2016, really wish the royal mint would do commemorative £1 coins again.
You're in luck, we're getting one in 2023 I believe.
2005 at 11:29 Christopher 😮
I have a handful I was planning to cash in. I'm not a big collector, I just enjoy the designs. Should I be looking to sell them instead 🤔 and where? Sorry if this is not appropriate to ask here.
You can swop them on the change checker app (no money to change hands). Look up old round pound on eBay where you can sell them, just make sure you add the cost of postage and the percentage that eBay sticks on for the use of the site
@@nickmaynard9179 Thank you. I might just hang on to them after all😆
@@maried500 yeah. keep hold of them they will be worth to keep, i recently purchased a old coffee jar that had lots old British pennies inside the dates ranged from 1775-1945
i got it for 8 pounds but its worth an estimated value of 200-300 pounds must of been 600 of them best to hang on to coins.
I love having the forth bridges near my door step.
Great video. I miss the old round pounds. The floral series was my favourite set. What was your favourite ORP?
Very nice coin hunt! Loved the designs on these coins!
Can’t believe it’s been 5 years! Shame you didn’t find much but still nice nostalgia
Isle of man my favourite. Great video
All of those Leek £1 Coins , Time for a Toilet 🚻 break ! . It's all Water 💧 under the Bridges 🌉 🙌 now .
0:46; Can you please link the original video? 🤔
the menai street bridge coin at 4:10 looks rare as it looks like a cu fried egg usually happens to two pounds
loved this blast from the past keep up the fantastic videos christopher
For every coin handed back to the banks ,the coins are melted down and put back into the mint to be reissued in the edges of the new pound coins and 2 pound coins ,so making them a little rarer .
the strike quality (or wearing) of many of these is appaling, are you sure some are not counterfeits ? , and why did the bank not send these back to (the mint ? for destruction ? or is the cost of handling too great for them ?)
Yeah some are fakes 🙂
Very nice hunt. I really like the old round Pounds. Nice to see them again.
Absolute delight to see these old coins again. well done on securing them from your bank. Very decent of the cashier to help out. Keep up with the cracking content mate. Never a dull moment.
How I can get that paper with all the coint 1 pound ? to completed my collection ?
I have an old round pound from 2003 that has St George slaying the dragon on it with the words Amicus - Christi - Georgius wrote on left, top , and right hand side of the front of the coin. initialled JC. Is that coin in your round pound book? Do you know if its rare?
Gibraltar pound coin.
@@murph8411 Cool
How do you get these old £1
A different hunt. Very interesting things happen to those who talk to the right people and establish that relationship with their bank.
I agree with the Isle of Man coin being the star find here.
I love looking through the old pound coins, I'm still looking for loads of them and wish I could get them all
Agreed!
How are you getting on with finding the old one pound coins Liam,I may be able to help you out if your stuck
I have some absolute mint £1 coins from the 80s. My dad kept them wrapped up for all these years and I was given them :)
What a fantastic chance to see these old coins! I have a few in my collection, I have most coins - awesome as always Christopher! Keep up the great work
Hi Christopher, where can I get the coins chart like the one you had please?
I have a couple of fruit machines that only use old £1 coins, so happy to take any off you that you don't need then I can use them as 'tokens'.
The frist 2002 one is a fake counterfeit
Lovely video, how great to see the old round pounds again, especially the IOM coin. Fingers crossed you can get hold of some more of those one day.
Hi, where can I get copies of these lists please?
Another Phenomenal Video All The Best.
You ought to learn to spot forgeries, if you don't know what you're looking for, forged pound coins are badly worn and sometimes black residue will be left behind on your hands if you rub the coin.
where can i get a old pound coin date run from
One word wow,brings back happy memories,thank you so much xx
Very interesting Christopher, thank you for showing us 😊 xx
nice one Christopher
I loved that £1 coin hunt and started one myself, with a few old £1coins
So looking forward to watching this now
A video of longed for! The old round pound designs were pretty cool. You can't beat abit of nostalgia! Fantastic video buddy! 😊
In gibraltar, they still use round pound coins, just not uk ones. They mint their own editions.
I've got everything crossed for new commemorative £1's. A new set of UK Capitals would be amazing on them....who am I kidding? It's hard enough wishing for 50ps. Very interesting this though, they feel like 50 years ago, not 5 😂👍
Great video. Love the old pound coins
IOM star find, great old designs. Stay safe buddy
That Isle of Man is a peach of a find. 🍑 It’s worth asking for these at the banks, people hand in the odd ones all of the time. Nostalgia indeed
Great to see them again, more round pounds if you can please 👍🏾
pls answer i got a 2004 menai bridge 1 pound coin its 2004 not 2005 and i am so confused
Awesome .. I have recently done 2 bank runs of £1 rounds.. first one was £140 2nd was £240.. all I was missing was the London and Edinburgh city coins
Wow That’s A Rare Sight Now Days, Great Hunt! 😀
Missing some of the ships but have Resolute,but no nifc
I might have to ask my bank if I can swap them , do you think most banks would just make you pay face value ?
They should do, as when they were recalled you could pay them in as face value.
@@mackemmoolah do you think most banks would still have some ?
@@jemma778 It is possible. Some will have sent them back to the Royal Mint to be melted down
That was great to see the old £ again 😊👍
The withdrawal of the old pound coins was a bit of a bodge job, if I remember correctly. Hundreds of millions of old pound coins have avoided the Royal Mint crucible, so its not surprising that you managed to get a hundred of them: good relations with the bank pay off.
Round pounds were badly out of date and did desperately need replacing, due to the fakes, but I still miss them all the same. One of my favourites is the 2006 Egyptian Bridge design and the 3 lions design.
I had a lot the mother in law collected, no idea what to do so I banked a number of them. I think a few were fakes. I told my laundrette not to change their coin acceptors as they could just sell the round pounds as tokens - 10 for £10 , which they would get back immediately any way.
I didnt realise they aren't in circulation what does a new one look like
Hi Christopher. That was good fun. I will have a look at my collection to remind myself which of the coins I have. I think quite a few including a number of the territories. Thanks for the memories.
nice hunt I have a few of those 1 pound coins did not know they were no longer in circulation
Odd that you didn't get either of the thistles (1984 and 1989), those were really common.
I have got a one pound coin with a thistle and I think a blue bell how mutch is this coin worth please
What a great video buddy I loved the old pound designs
How can I get a copy of the £1 sheet
Hi Christopher, really enjoyed this video. Thanks for the time and effort you put into the channel.
Good morning 🙏...
Could you please explain to me how you do your money runs please...
The only thing I'm missing from my coin collection is like it's a gold England thing Christopher show me a video if you have it:)
Oooo pound coin hunt. I asked my bank if they have any round pounds but they said they couldn't give them to me as they are no longer in circulation. Is that correct?
Yes, that’s why I’m surprised Christopher got some. Must have a good relationship with the staff there. 🤷♂️
@@jimkhana007 maybe it’s the bank he used to be a manager at 🤓
@@wisher21uk knew he worked in a bank, didn’t know / realise he was a manager, 🤷♂️
@@jimkhana007 I’m 99% sure he was I’m sure he said it once when he was in about work etc
how weird i was thinking a one coin hunt would be great at the weekend
Hi Christopher, are you aware many of these £1's were forgeries? I've seen many, and one of mine is a combination of UK Reverse and Jersey Obverse!
do u have the skull coin ??
I was wondering about the skull coin too. It's the only one I have.
I'm fairly lucky in that I only need 4 to complete my round pound set. All NIFCs unfortunately.
MackemMoolah what are you missing I have a few spares?
@@55AE The 2015 & 2016 JC Shield designs, and the 1998 & 1999 NIFC's
@@mackemmoolah finally got my box of spares out sorry I don't have the ones you need 🙁
@@55AE Don't worry. They are tricky to get hold of now.
Good hunt Christopher love your vids keep up the good work
Get some goalie gloves, that will treble the size of your hands. :)
Why are they called round pounds? Were they previous ones square?
I think previously they were green pound notes.
I would like to have some are you going to sell any???
How do I send it and how will I get paid
I can’t believe anyone would pay more than £1 for any of them. The bridges used to turn up in change quite often. The daffodils were probably the most common flower I used to see (maybe it was just the one that stuck in my head more) and as for the cities I don’t think I ever saw the Cardiff but maybe it depends on where you live a bit as well.
I have a ton of books full of old pounds, are they worth much?
I have many available for purchase on ebay
My listings usually have a blue or green background
Good job!
thank you . Realy enjoyed this.
im from Moscow originally, but i lived in Stockport from 1988 till 1993 and visited the UK lots of times after, and I have a lot of coins from that era!) i never thought this could happen, because in my mind it was the thickest coin i ever touched. and I love coins, I’ve touched quite a few😂
I have a few old £1 coins. I’m wish I started coin collecting early and collected them all. Hope you do another one sometime!
Another thing you'll notice, is that the 1985's quite often look weakly struck...
That territory is beautiful 😻 my favourite round pound are the Scottish variants great video x
Wow
@@shamsunnahar2118 yea. He’s got some awesome coins there 😁
I've got tons meaning to trade with the bank however you intelligent gentleman you just opened a whole new collector's perspective. dear thanks
Love and miss the old round pounds
Love the rounds. Lots of great territories to find as well as the withdrawn UK issue
I once had a George and the dragon pound coin and spent it accidentally 😅
I remember the day I first saw a non round coin back in 2016 when I was in year 7 my mother had let me have it. What a long time it seems now since then
Is the 1992 round coin worth anything.
It's the oak tree one
Brilliant! I love the round pounds, I only have 12 up now, always exciting to come across
Never seen the flower ones
But how much can you buy old pounds for because I can’t be worth the same
Sucks to be me. I used to throw my £1 coins into an old cognac bottle from my change. I handed them all into the bank when the £1 change over came. Most were shiny & uncirculated. I had all the rare ones & didn't know they had value. Over 1500 £1 coins were handed in. Luckily I kept three Kew garden 50p's though.
Whoopsie!
I found a whole lot of these the other day. What can I do with them?
Hello mate, I am happy to buy on the face value.
Maybe you could make a date run book for the old £1 coins?