Some Remainers won’t accept the new 50p ?

at vast expense

Well, 50p to you or me!!

lemongrove You accused me of lying. I will let it go because you're not worth it and this is an online forum. Fortunately, I will never have to meet you. Nevertheless, I don't see why you should get away with groundless accusations (especially over something so petty), given your history.

I’m getting my sharpie ready to draw EU hearts on mine. The coins can say what they want - my friend’s husband whose mother was British & has lived here with a British wife & kids for over 40 years has been refused the right to settle. So the coins can say what they like, Brexit is still a xenophobic act.

That’s before we get into the economic suicide (which will affect me - am preparing my business to shut).

The challenge is going to be expressing all that on a 50p with a sharpie

Although like others I barely use coins. Only one shop I use won’t accept cards for anything under a fiver, everything else I pay by phone or card.

Oh and I’m not a Labour member & only vote Labour if I can vote swap (which I usually do for general elections because otherwise we end up with a Tory here).

The shopkeeper can refuse to oblige, they are always welcome to shop else where. Honestly, you couldn't make it up!

I don't understand the fuss - it is highly unlikely any of us will see these coins, they will be snapped up by collectors - how many of us saw the Olympics coins or the Harry Potter coins. Is it really something to get hot under the collar about?

Callistemon I couldnt even tell you what was on the front of the current 50p, £1, £5, £10, £20. I can't say I hold on to money long enough to notice. If it "looks odd" I may check a little closer, but I need reading glasses and dont get them out of my bag just to inspect my money.

I dd say to my DH a while back "this looks like a pretty 50p" and he replied it was a commemorative one. "Oh I see a little soldier for the start of ww1" "No" says he "it's a suffragette"
Maybe I should wear my reading specs more!

Actually I may just put a black circle on it to represent the risk to health. Govt advice in case of shortages of my son’s epilepsy meds is to brand swap. Against NICE advice & this (from Australia, so no Brexit politics at play) explains why www.epilepsy.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Fact-Sheet-Switching-Brands.pdf?__cf_chl_captcha_tk__=44a7d71c95fea52e596aa3fb7436d42b393f73fe-1580197337-0-Adf7ioIeBDip0RFIifcl9Lyk3DI2AeHFrKsofWEBOcZPyp5JdlWXwnGl6UkRO2RcUmy99HOqLjfWGdrMVdXcltzZsed5kvJenGRr7YuY8casrBjoQKRmMSQ_KCbAlgA_H2pe8ofLLBwjpWiMO9Ms-YyToAKVVlI_goEgcMiXgm2pYRaGH6G-k6tzuj7mStxiehTPnF6kCVXm7FUwaa6uRv4hwVI4vOJYRfw7E7BBAzqNx4Rx46IKJF8g1bSIEBQ9B6bZyGJ9UZWEiQSLUwEtVAJ0Oxs1Zvxrru8aQb-kWW03Wu3CbkKtSD8WJe_QdkE61aLe-kwB8QJ-YX8Kpm7XHSpCZ5FwAHvdEmoJCEG8gIKncwIosUvZpKDNh8CPArLRTxqbpSulwIaCVwkUCmQvwcwgL-C0ntTMMDtV5l6G1F0p2mqrd0u5wkhwoGZUN1988g

The problem with losing control of seizures is that you don’t always regain it

If their job involves handling cash are they going to tell their boss that the till is down because they refused to accept legal tender, or explain why the lost a sale ? They haven't thought this through,have they ?

I have never heard of anything so stupid.
Will the anti royalist stop using money as it has the Queens head on it mmmmm interesting.

Slighty off thread. We all moan that banks are small businesses are a rare sight on our small town High Streets but if we refuse to use cash surely we are helping them to close.

craftergran are you like my friend, whose husband says she hates money?
Because she can't get rid of it fast enough!

yes

Enjoy yourself!!

As others say, it’s a virtue signalling enterprise ( to go on twitter on high horses about a few words on a 50p coin!)they will accept the coin fast enough in RL no doubt.
Everyone seems to be outraged about petty things, it must be exhausting.

I was surprised that the new coin was already in the shops today. I asked the assistant if she could give me a different coin, which she did. I wasn't the first person asking this morning.

A different coin ?

It will be spent soon enough, although I can see why you wouldn’t want a coin with those offensive words about friendship written on it.

Lemongrove - you are offensively rude. This is a very sad day and you are delighting in upsetting people further.

What you actually mean GM is that you don’t like the fact I think refusing a coin is strange and amusing, that doesn’t mean it’s either rude or offensive.You think it’s a sad day and I don’t, either way, people refusing a coin is IMHO a very odd thing to do.I don’t expect anyone to take it home and display it, but it’s just a coin in your purse.

Lemongrove - the coin represents something which I am very upset about, it is a symbol of something I find awful so no it is not just a coin.

Complete waste of money.

My father was very unhappy when we joined, GrandmaMoira

But he was very pleased to get the 50p coin to add to his collection

He was also horrified when we got a £1 coin

Swore he'd never use one

But he did

Are you in Scotland by any chance GM? And if so, do you support the SNP and want Independence?
If that happened, would you like a coin to be minted to celebrate that fact?
If you are not Scottish or living in Scotland, disregard this post ( Moira could be Scottish or Irish, or just a name chosen at random.)