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These are the Top 10 tips to complete your £1 Coin Collection…
The Great One Pound Coin Race is well underway and lots of you have already managed to complete a full collection of £1 coins.
For those of you that haven’t don’t worry, there’s still time… but it is getting harder!
You’ve only got until 15 October to find all 24 circulating £1 coin designs so here are the Top 10 tips to complete your collection.
Since the release of the new 12-sided £1 coin last month, the new £1 has been turning up everywhere, and that means the round pounds will start to slowly disappear. That’s because the banks will stop issuing the round pounds and will start to take them out of circulation.
Lots of you have also come forward with your own tips and tricks for finding £1 coins…
How to enter the Great One Pound Coin Race
If you haven’t started your Great One Pound Coin Race yet, it’s not too late. Simply click here to enter today and you too could own a complete collection of £1 coins direct from your change before they’re gone for ever.
The Great One Pound Coin Race Collector’s Kit
The Great One Pound Coin Race Collector’s Kit gives you everything you need to collect, house and protect your collection of £1 coins as you find them.
Each collecting kit includes:
– 24 x One Pound Coin Collector Cards
– 3 x Change Checker Collector pages
– A special collector card for the new 12-sided £1 coin so you can add one to your collection
– A title page detailing all 24 coins to collect from your change
– An opportunity to own the 2016 Last Round Pound that never entered circulation.
Plus you’ll receive The Great One Pound Coin Race Participant’s Medal (worth £5.00) absolutely FREE.
There’s no better way to house your collection of £1 coins – get yours today!
Order yours today for just £25 (a current saving of £5.00 on the normal price).
21 tips to complete your Great One Pound Coin Race
The Race is on…
You’ve only got until 15 October to find all 24 circulating £1 coin designs. And after the new 12-sided £1 Coin is released on 28 March, it will get harder as banks start to replace the £1 coins they receive with the new 12-sided £1 coin.
So that’s why we’ve put our heads together to give you 21 Top Tips to complete your Great One Pound Coin Race in time.
- Check your change drawer / change pot
- Ask friends and family
- Go to the bank and change notes to £1 coins
- Swap with the Change Checker web app – changechecker.org
- Befriend the local corner shop / launderette owner and ask them for their £1 coins
- Arcade / bingo change machines
- Pay with a note and round up with loose change to maximise your £1 coin change
- Look for Facebook swap groups
- Raid your children’s piggy banks (and replace them with notes!)
- Look for abandoned supermarket trolleys
- Check down the back of the sofa
- Check old handbags
- Set up a lottery syndicate and collect the payments in round £1 coins
- Have a bake sale – everything a round £1 coin
- Offer to count up any collections and swap out the £1 coins for notes
- Car boot sale – everything is “One Round Pound”
- Pay car park charges in notes and receive the change in coins
- Check any tips your friends might be leaving at restaurants
- Always carry some £1 coins with you so you can swap any time you see a good one
- Check gym lockers
- Try to build a collection as a group – e.g. a school class – 30 Change Checkers are better than 1!
Win a Gold-plated Participant’s Medal
Do you have any more tips?
We’ll be giving away some special 24-Carat Gold Plated Great One Pound Coin Participant’s Medals to the best ideas. Simply comment below with your top tip.
How to enter the Great One Pound Coin Race
If you haven’t started your Great One Pound Coin Race yet, it’s not too late. Simply click here to enter today and you too could own a complete collection of £1 coins direct from your change before they’re gone for ever.