Inside the heavily guarded site where £1.5bn of coins – claimed to be the most secure in the world – are being madeThe new £1 coin – in pictures
It’s known as the Long Store and at first sight this draughty building with endless rows of plain cardboard boxes stacked neatly on shelving from floor to ceiling – could be any distribution warehouse in the UK. Only discreet red stickers reveal the valuable contents of the boxes, which every day will be driven by fleets of armoured tall-security vehicles from the barbed wire-ringed site. Each is loaded with 85000 gleaming new 12-sided pound coins which disappear into circulation in the UK on 28 March and are systematically being transferred to a network of top secret cash centres” across to the UK to await final delivery to banks and other issuers.
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Source: theguardian.com