These are the Top 10 tips to complete your £1 Coin Collection…

By Change Checker | April 18, 2017 |

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.

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44 Comments

  1. Edward leaver on May 11, 2017 at 9:46 am

    I have completed all designs in the change checker album and also have a separate £1 coin collection of each year minted except 1999, does anyone have a 1999 £1 coin for me to swap.
    Also the big question is , as there are £34’s worth of £1 coins not in the album what do you do with them in October ???? Cash them in and lose them forever or keep them as part of British monetary history ???



  2. Edward leaver on May 11, 2017 at 9:39 am

    I have Belfast & London cities spare, also three of the four floral £1’s.
    Open to all swaps to the same face value.



  3. Neil Brown on May 8, 2017 at 7:06 pm

    Still require Edinburgh castle round pound coin any ideas or anyone willing to do a swap



  4. Andre Nichols on May 4, 2017 at 7:41 pm

    Hi lovely people .I am looking for the Edinburgh. Can any body help .have coins to swop .kind regards Andre



    • Dieter Sullivan on May 5, 2017 at 11:41 am

      I have Edinburgh coin , what will you offer for it



      • Tom Wilde on May 10, 2017 at 12:55 am

        free coffee 😀



  5. joepearson50 on April 28, 2017 at 1:45 pm

    I have a falklands island £1 coin, is it rare?I have only found this one in my change over the years



    • Alan Cosker on April 28, 2017 at 2:51 pm

      As far as I know it is not one of the 25 round pound coins on the collectors list.Are you sure it is a British coin?



  6. Raks Gohel on April 26, 2017 at 3:36 pm

    Where can I find out how much these collections or part completed collections sell for? Will they be worth anything after they’re taken out of circulation in October? Thanks



  7. Dieter Sullivan on April 26, 2017 at 9:29 am

    Have every design and every year in BU condition



    • Dieter Sullivan on April 26, 2017 at 9:30 am

      Also have the new £1 12 sided coin
      2016 and 2017



  8. Gaz on April 25, 2017 at 11:20 am

    Help me please I need the Edinburgh one to finish my set for my Austic lad but they going for silly price on eBay if anyone has got one to sell and not at a silly price would be helpful thanks Gaz



  9. MR IAN CAMPBELL STUART on April 20, 2017 at 11:29 pm

    All I need is the Scottish coin then all done. I really hope I manage it! I have everyone I know looking for it. Lets hope I get lucky!!



    • Alan Cosker on April 28, 2017 at 3:04 pm

      Is it the 2014 Scottish flora you are after if so I have one for sale .



  10. Ray lambert on April 20, 2017 at 12:26 pm

    Finally completed my full set of one pound coins, including the uncirculated 2016 and the new twelve sided one. How do I manage to get the ‘completers medal?
    And I would like to get my hands on the very first round pound that was meant for clibrating the arcade machines.



    • Ray lambert on April 20, 2017 at 12:27 pm

      Should have read: Calibrating.



  11. Stephen Gomersall on April 20, 2017 at 9:28 am

    I am finding the 2011 Edinburgh one pound coin difficult to come by.



    • Dieter Sullivan on May 5, 2017 at 11:46 am

      Have the Edinburgh and Cardiff city Coins for sale, make me an offer



      • Steve on May 9, 2017 at 6:41 am

        Hi Dieter. £5



      • Dieter Sullivan on May 9, 2017 at 4:30 pm

        Will accept £20.00 for both with free postage



      • Steve on May 10, 2017 at 10:38 pm

        No thanks Dieter



  12. michael williams on April 20, 2017 at 1:15 am

    having trouble getting the crowed shied if you got one spare ill try exchange it with you or buy it email me at [email protected] thank you



    • Gaz on April 27, 2017 at 1:59 pm

      Hi what crown coin you after hun x



  13. Gaz on April 19, 2017 at 11:52 pm

    I just need to coins Edinburgh and the 2016 that did not come in to circulation please help ?



  14. Bernadette on April 19, 2017 at 8:59 pm

    I need the Wales Cardiff coin to complete my set if anyone has a spare one



    • Alan Cosker on April 25, 2017 at 11:51 am

      I have ten surplus coins including the Cardiff ,London,Scottish,Irish and Welsh flora coins.Get in touch if I can help



      • berniesmith47 on April 25, 2017 at 2:03 pm

        I only need the Cardiff one to complete my set if you still have a spare I would be most grateful.
        Best wishes Bernadette



      • Gaz on April 25, 2017 at 4:24 pm

        I need the Edinburgh to finish mine cheers gaz



      • berniesmith47 on April 25, 2017 at 4:51 pm

        Sorry don’t have the Edinburgh one but hope you get it.

        Best wishes
        Bernadette



      • Tim Challinor on April 25, 2017 at 5:35 pm

        I am very interested. Are there any coins you are looking for?
        [email protected]



    • Dieter Sullivan on April 26, 2017 at 9:26 am

      Have the Cardiff city £1 coin, make me a offer



      • berniesmith47 on April 26, 2017 at 2:16 pm

        Hi Dieter would you accept £5 for your Cardiff city pound coin .
        With regards
        Bernadette



  15. Mikem on April 19, 2017 at 8:04 pm

    Hi have completed two sets .



  16. Alan Cosker on April 19, 2017 at 7:35 pm

    I have all twenty five coins no twenty four as there was a 2016 coin made but not circulated.I have some duplicates an a duplicate Mary Rose two pound coin.Is there anyone out here interested .Ring 01792582034 for further information.



    • Garry Williams on April 26, 2017 at 9:06 am

      Hi have you got spare Edinburgh coin



      • Dieter Sullivan on April 26, 2017 at 9:28 am

        I have a spare Edinburgh city £1 coin
        make me a offer



      • Gaz on April 26, 2017 at 2:54 pm

        Hi I would give you 5.00 pound for your Edinburgh coin cheers gaz



      • Dieter Sullivan on April 27, 2017 at 1:48 pm

        Sorry Gaz have a offer of £15



  17. Tim on April 19, 2017 at 6:41 pm

    Complete collection, working in a 2nd collection for my partner. Also doing an extended collection with all the designs but with the extra headache of the full mintage.
    Wish me luck???



  18. william inkster on April 19, 2017 at 6:18 pm

    the only £1 coin I need is 1999



  19. Dieter Sullivan on April 19, 2017 at 6:15 pm

    I now have One complete set of every year £1 Coins circulated and One complete set of Brilliant Uncirculated £1 coins plus loads of spares.



  20. tony hall on April 19, 2017 at 1:49 am

    easy i just o into my local natwest i have an account there and draw £100 out in 50p,s check them then go and put them back in the change deposit wall till it goes straight back into my account then draw it back out in notes i do this twice a week



  21. Les kent on April 18, 2017 at 8:05 pm

    DONE IT, I have every £1 coin1983 to 2017 all with the inscription the right way up
    PLUS another complete set with every inscription upside down, 87 £1 coins in total.
    Les



    • Tony Adams on April 23, 2017 at 5:35 pm

      Please explain about the inscription being the right way up and upside down on the pound coins.
      Regards
      Tony