I feel like people need to stop making massive sweeping statements. They always end up eating their words. You know the whole 'the Titanic is unsinkable' thing? Yeah, that didn't really go to plan, did it? Then we've got this new pound coin. 'Indestructible'. Well, that's just going to make everyone and their nans try and destroy it, right? Right.
However, it seems that the coins have been doing it themselves.
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The Mirror reports that some have been found to be misshapen or have colours running into each other, while one was issued without a centre and another even reportedly melted.
It was launched in March and, within the next few months, there will be 1.5 billion of them in circulation.
One person who received a weird coin told the paper: "It is all melted and out of shape."
Obviously, people have been trying to cash in on this (why not?!) and selling their messed up coins on eBay. This one managed to sell for £12.50.
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A spokesman for the Royal Mint said: "We have tight quality controls in place.
"However, variances will always occur in a small number of coins, particularly in the striking process, due to the high volumes and speed of production."
There are loads of different kinds of pound coins, with some being a lot more rare than the others...
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Changechecker.org has produced scores, scaled from 100 to 1, that represent the relative scarcity of each coin, with 100 being more difficult to find than Big Foot.
And the numbers in the chart match up with the coins featured above. Take a look here...
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The rarest is the Edinburgh City coin, of which it is estimated there are somewhere between 600,000-800,000 still in circulation.
On average, it means that you will have to examine roughly 3,000 mixed £1 coins to find the Edinburgh City £1 coin - which is selling for as much as £34, over 3,000 percent of its value.
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Meanwhile, the 2011 Cardiff City £1 coin has sold for £20 and the London City 2010 coin is selling for £10.
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