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Radio 5 Live,1 min

New pound will be "world's most secure" coin

5 Live In Short

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In this 90-second summary, people in Newcastle share their view on the new pound coin which will be introduced in 2017. Plus, Andrew Mills from the Royal Mint explains why the new coin will be the first in the world to use new counterfeit features which have been developed in south Wales and why the design pays homage to the original threepenny bit.

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