<P> Also legally circulating but not legal tender in the UK, are some £ 1 coins of British Crown Dependencies, Gibraltar and UK South Atlantic Overseas Territories, being of the same size and composition as their UK equivalent and mostly bearing the same portraits of the UK monarch (as with most other coins of the same territories). </P> <P> In an April 1993 The New Yorker article' Real Britannia', Julian Barnes describes the meetings to choose the 1994--1997 reverse designs . This is reprinted in his book Letters from London as' Britannia's New Bra Size' . </P>

Writing on the side of a pound coin