The Royal Mint’s new 12-sided pound coin is set to hit our high streets next week and one local Aberdeen banking branch will be among the first in the UK to offer them.
The new coin will be available from Tuesday, March 28 and the Queens Cross Clydesdale Bank branch will be one of the select few ‘coin hubs’ in the UK offering them on launch day.
The new £1 will be among the most secure in the world, helping to tackle counterfeiting, and some of the old round pounds will be melted down and reused to make them.
The UK public are being urged to dig out their round pounds in order to spend or return them before October 15.
After that date, retailers will no longer accept the coins and people will need to exchange them at the bank or Post Office.
New 12-sided £1 coin released next week… And this Aberdeen bank is one of few places you can get one
