Other Pound Coins in Circulation
Also legally circulating, but not legal tender, in the UK are some £1 coins of British Crown Dependencies, Gibraltar and UK South Atlantic colonies, being of the same size and composition as their UK equivalent and bearing the same portraits of the UK monarch (as with most other coins of the same territories).
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