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Re:The new £1 Coin by mbrookes on Monday March 27, 2017 @07:31AM (#13966770)
"Hidden high security feature – a high security feature is built into the coin to protect it from counterfeiting in the future."

So you never know - but how would that work inside a metal coin?

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Re:The new £1 Coin by corobo on Monday March 27, 2017 @08:04AM (#13966953)
Supposedly the super secret bonus prize is embedded luminescent particles[1], if you fancy reading about what that is

[1] https://www.google.com/patents/US20110305919

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Re:The new £1 Coin by ardaozkal on Monday March 27, 2017 @07:50AM (#13966868)
> So you never know - but how would that work inside a metal coin?

That's a good point, I completely oversaw that.

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Re:The new £1 Coin by blacksmith_tb on Monday March 27, 2017 @01:17PM (#13969661)
I don't think it's entirely unfeasible, the entire coin could act as the antenna (instead of shielding one, that is).
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Re:The new £1 Coin by Daviey on Monday March 27, 2017 @08:05AM (#13966960)
I'm assuming it has an NFC tag or something similar... Can't wait to cut one open and look. :)
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Re:The new £1 Coin by djsumdog on Monday March 27, 2017 @08:55AM (#13967254)
Yea, when I heard that, I immediately wondered if there was a tracking _feature_ in the coin.
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