Royal Mint Trial £1 coin

[secret santa]

Can anyone tell me about or point me to a reference about the Royal Mint Trial 12-sided £1 coin, many of which are for sale on Ebay. I'm particularly interested in the number minted, how they were distributed/applied for, etc etc

[1949threepence]

On 5/16/2017 at 9:46 AM, secret santa said:

Can anyone tell me about or point me to a reference about the Royal Mint Trial 12-sided £1 coin, many of which are for sale on Ebay. I'm particularly interested in the number minted, how they were distributed/applied for, etc etc

Well it would appear from this article that around 200,000 trial pieces were minted.

You might also be interested in a long running thread on the issue here 

[secret santa]

Thanks Mike, just what I wanted.

[1949threepence]

Fairly amateurishly written article I thought, Richard, but at least the journalist had taken the trouble to correctly source some very pithy and relevant information. Therefore useful.