WORK to adapt parking machines in the Winchester district to cope with the new pound coins will cost taxpayers thousands of pounds.
As reported, councils across Hampshire are having to fork out thousands to cope with the changes.
For Winchester the work to adopt the machines cost £10,203, according to a city council spokesman.
The 12-sided £1 coin – dubbed “the most secure of its kind in the world” – came into circulation on March 28.
It is designed to combat counterfeiters who have around 45 million counterfeit £1 coins currently in circulation.
New security features include a hologram-like image that changes from a £ symbol to the number one when the coin is seen from different angles.
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