Fake £1 coins - who's got one?

I got £8 in pound coins change from a tenner for my pizza slice for lunch, and I'm suspicious about 3 of the coins - they dont have writing around the edges, just an enscribed banding.

However, as said above no-one ever checks pound coins, so its not a massive issue at the moment - although someone somewhere is getting pretty rich off this!
 
matt_fsr said:
I got £8 in pound coins change from a tenner for my pizza slice for lunch, and I'm suspicious about 3 of the coins - they dont have writing around the edges, just an enscribed banding.
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I've had plenty of coins without the writing around the edge, just that pattern, but I'm not sure if they are fake - never seen it mentioned before.

Edit: I think it might be ok actually, according to royalmint.com:

Edge inscriptions
An incuse decorative feature symbolising bridges and pathways 2004,2005,2006,2007
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I found it amusing this morning when they had a chap on BBC breakfast to talk about this. When asked what people should do if they discover one of their pound coins is fake, he replied " Well, once a coin is discovered to be fake it's worthless and there's not a lot they can do about it"

Surely the answer he should have given was simply.... stick it in a vending machine!!! ;o)

Valve
 
When I worked in retail the amount of hassle customers would give me when I told them I couldn't accept this as payment but I also couldn't give it back to them was stupid.

They would make such a big fuss over it then ask me how I knew it was a fake.

"Well the coin is so soft that I can make a dent it it by pushing it on the edge of a table"
 
matt_fsr said:
I got £8 in pound coins change from a tenner for my pizza slice for lunch, and I'm suspicious about 3 of the coins - they dont have writing around the edges, just an enscribed banding.

However, as said above no-one ever checks pound coins, so its not a massive issue at the moment - although someone somewhere is getting pretty rich off this!
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Not all one pound coins have writing around the edge
http://www.royalmint.com/Corporate/facts/coins/OnePoundCoin.aspx


I currently have 8 £1 coins and they're all real :)
 
valve90210 said:
I found it amusing this morning when they had a chap on BBC breakfast to talk about this. When asked what people should do if they discover one of their pound coins is fake, he replied " Well, once a coin is discovered to be fake it's worthless and there's not a lot they can do about it"

Surely the answer he should have given was simply.... stick it in a vending machine!!! ;o)

Valve
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fakes coins don't always work in vending machines

MW
 
Quite a few of the workers in shops in york check notes regularly whenever they are handed to them. I notice it more in york than anywhere else. Which is odd as york is actually quite a rich area. I guess its all the scaffs living in the suburbs :P
 
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