fake pound coin

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the gf brought this coin on the right home today, and I think it's a fake.
The colour's all wrong (it's almost brown), dodgy milling on the edge with no lettering, and it seems worn like it's too soft. Anyone else had one recently?

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Is it lighter in weight than the real one? Were some running around here that felt lighter.
 
I've had a couple, one which was made of plastic even. Not a lot of profit in £1 coins though, I tend to concentrate on printing £20s

MB
 
Matblack said:
I've had a couple, one which was made of plastic even. Not a lot of profit in £1 coins though, I tend to concentrate on printing £20s

MB
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So that's why you keep asking people if they have 2 tenners for a twenty at meets :eek: ;)

Stan :)
 
Jokester said:
I doubt it would be fake to be honest, costs to much to make coins to make it worthwhile faking them.

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Actually I'm fairly sure there are loads of fake £1 coins about - there was a BBC new article about them fairly recently, and I was briefly warned at work. I think they cost 70-80p or something to make, but since just about anything will pass easily (unlike, say, £20 notes which will be routinely checked at least fairly carefully), a criminal working in mass can make something out of it.
 
Yeah, but were they properly minted coins or were they just "tokens" the right size and weight to appear as a £1 coin to a machine?

Jokester
 
When I was in uni I worked in an amusement arcade, easily found 2>5 fake pound coins a day on average.

As already said, drop the coin on a hard service, you can hear a fake coin easily.
 
bottletop said:
slip it in the middle :)
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I used to work in a pub, never used to check pound coins.

My boss used to be able to pick them out though.

That one does look a little sus though... can't you polish it? :D
 
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