The inscriptions on £1 coins

[Master Jmd 89]

If you take a 1983 pound and compare it to a 2003 pound (both the same design but different effigy), then look at the inscriptions around the side of the coin, they are out of place with each other, i only have one 2003 pound on me, is this meant to be?

[Sylvester 15]

Yeah that happens... i don't think they are supposed to be in any particular orientation. You get them starting in different places around the edge... one has the cross at 1 o'clock, another at 6... And they you can also get them where they are just the other way around, one is the right way up from the obverse but another is the right way up from the reverse if you know what i mean...

[william 0]

what does it look like when you compare two of thhe same date?

[Master Jmd 89]

Yeah that happens... i don't think they are supposed to be in any particular orientation. You get them starting in different places around the edge... one has the cross at 1 o'clock, another at 6... And they you can also get them where they are just the other way around, one is the right way up from the obverse but another is the right way up from the reverse if you know what i mean...

Surely that is a lack of effort with the royal mint...all of them should be placed evenly...

[Master Jmd 89]

what does it look like when you compare two of thhe same date?

strangely no! ...this is a true lazy factor of the mint...

[Emperor Oli 0]

If you can be bothered to rotate all £1 minted to exactly the same orientation so the inscriptions all line up, then I will take my hat off to you. It is a waste of time and resources to have all the inscriptions the same way around. It's not idleness, it simply cannot be done on the scale of the production.