When We Do Eventually Get A New Monarch

[DJHawkes]

what happens to all the money with the Queens head on it? I know when I was little we would still get the occasional coin with the King's head on it, and I think even the Old King, but I can't remember what happened about paper money. Of course when I was really little I never saw paper money but I do remember the first 10s notes I think with The Queen on them.

[ummmm]

It will gradually be taken out of distribution, just like the £1 note and the half penny.

They are the only ones I remember...

[Old_Geezer]

ummmm the youngster.

[friedgreentomato]

OG remembers the old queen!!!

[ummmm]

OG...we used to get 2 chocolate mice for 1/2p. When I talk to my kids it makes me feel old :-)

[DJHawkes]

I wonder if there has already been decision made and preparations made for the issue of new notes and coins for a new monarch? The Royal Family and it's team are famed for forward planning

[ichkeria]

Will they be taken out of circulation? I'd have thought not, but I'm ready to be proved wrong. Decimalisation caused a lot of coins to appear and disappear but that was for different reasons

[frugalfred]

Reminds me of the true story of the postmistress in a remote Cotswolds' village, who, when asked in 1972(?) "What do you think of this new decimal money?" replied, "Well, it's all right, but I don't think it'll catch on round 'ere!"

[ummmm]

I meant 'circulation' not 'distribution'

[DJHawkes]

it will all seem strange, new stamps, new postboxes, singing a new version of the national anthem.

[Old_Geezer]

He still lives down the bottom of my road friedgreentomato. Always says, "Hello".

[ichkeria]

They'll stop making the old ones of course and start making new ones, but surely we'll just carry on as before.
I can't imagine there'll be a day where the old ones will no longer be legal tender.
What happens if Charles becomes king, but dies quite soon after. It'd be chaos!

[ummmm]

Lol @ OG.

Dot, every change seems strange, for a few weeks. You only have to look to what happens when AB makes a change. They soon get used to it :-)

[ummmm]

ichkeria - I think the banks just stop reissuing them. Eventually they almost come out of circulation. Then a date is given for them to be used/swapped before they are no longer legal tender.

[ichkeria]

I hate to admit this, but I can remember old coins with George VI on which were still legal tender (in the days of Elizabeth II I hasten to add!)
I don't see why they would ever need to be declared no longer legal tender. It's still the same currency and coinage.

[FredPuli43]

Pre-decimal (1971 onwards), there were still pennies showing Queen Victoria, in circulation.

The coins get withdrawn as they wear out, which can be a long time, as do the notes, in rather less time. It's a fair guess that Prince Charles has already approved designs. He will, following some strange tradition, be depicted facing the opposite way to his predecessor. Whether this practice is pure accident or some plan by the Royal Mint is not clear.

[jake-the-peg]

It might not be Charles

I haven't decided which member of the Royal Familly I'm going to vote for yet!

[ichkeria]

I'm going to vote for whoever's face looks best on paper and metal ...

lol

My sister (I hope still) has a penny with George III's head on it...

[FredPuli43]

He did hint that he might not be styled Charles III. If he's superstitious and not one for happy frivolity ("Yes" to both, is my guess), having the precedent of one who set off a civil war and got executed and one who fled and then was merry throughout the restoration, would not be agreeable. His other names are Philip, Arthur, and George. I'm all for King Arthur II, Philip is too Greek and we've had lots of Georges, none of whom seemed like Charles, though possibly Farmer George, George III, is close.

[sandyRoe]

Didn't Farmer George talk to his plants, too?

[DJHawkes]

ooo I like the sound of King Arthur. But why does he have to 'pick' a name. surely if he wants to be seen as a King of his people he would stay as Charles. Oh I'm not wishing his Mum ill at all, just the opposite, but one side of me would love to see a coronation and new money, it's one of the things my generation hasn;t seen!