New £1 coin designed to beat fakers

Press Association
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Undated handout photo issued by HM Treasury showing the obverse or ?heads? side of a 12-sided three pence piece or ?Threepenny
Undated handout photo issued by HM Treasury showing the obverse or ?heads? side of a 12-sided three pence piece or ?Threepenny

%VIRTUAL-SkimlinksPromo%A new 12-sided one pound coin based on the threepenny bit is being unveiled - and is said to be the hardest in the world to fake.

Described as a "giant leap into the future" the new coin will replace the old one, after the Treasury announced that 3% in circulation are fake - a total of over 45 million.

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