What the actual hell, guys. £1 coins are no longer going to be the lovely, round, reassuringly heavy gold discs that we’re all used to and instead, are now going to be both gold and silver and have 12 sides.
I’m sure at some point we were told about this, consulted even (ahem yes: my bad, we were told back in March last year, we were probably too busy looking at pictures of Michelle Rodriguez and Cara Delevingne getting battered and having a billboard time, to notice).
Anyways, either way, there’s going to be a new £1 coin and yesterday, the last ones that look like the coin that we’re used to, were produced (or ‘minted’, as we like to say in the coin-producing industry). Although obviously, the old ones are still going to be in circulation – they’re not going to make you like, give them back or anything.
The new ones will start to appear from 2017.
I, for one, am mainly concerned about what is now going to happen when it’s four o’clock in the afternoon, I’m having a slump, and the call of a sweet, sweet Diet Coke is flirting with me from the vending machine. The problem? I’ve only got one of the new £1 coins, and they don’t fit in the vending machines*.
FFS guys, this is 1998’s whole £2 coin debacle all over again.
*See also, supermarket trollies, gym lockers and those cool machines at Alton Towers that flatten your pennies out into copper oval with a picture of a rollercoaster on it.
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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.