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I read it with the meaning “the pound won’t be in use for long” at first which seemed rather incongruous. I was wondering whether there was something I had missed about happenings with respect to brexit (I’m Australian, never been to the UK). It took me a while to interpret it as “the shape of the pound is changing from a circle to a dodecahedron”.

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Fortunately the domain name is rather less ambiguous and primed me for the weak pun. I'm ... glad(?) that the wordplay survived the marketeering sessions and civil service vetting.

BTW: dodecahedron is the solid object, dodecagon is the 12-sided polygon. D&D style dice as currency would be pretty awesome but it might make it difficult to resolve dilemmas using pocket change.

If it meant that, I'd expect it to be:

"The pound won’t be around for much longer"

so the original sentence is sort of a pun. Maybe "around" is a local use of English.

Just like “until” is commonly shortened “till”, “around” is commonly shortened as “round”.

Thanks to the "you see what you expect to see" effect, it took me until someone pointed out the pun before I realized the word was "round" and not "around".

I know this doesn't affect your point, but it's interesting: "till" is older than "until".

http://etymonline.com/index.php?term=until

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