FOLLOWING the introduction of the new 12-sided £1 coin - launched on March 28, 2017 - and with the old £1 coin ceasing to be legal tender after October 15, you would have thought by now that the old coin in your pocket would have become rarer than hen’s teeth.

But on most days, after being out shopping, I tend to find two or three of the soon-to-be-redundant coins in my change.

Why is this? Surely by now the banks and till points should be actively withdrawing them from circulation rather than keeping them in circulation.

D M Deamer, Penley’s Grove Street, Monkgate, York