fake pound coin

bottletop said:
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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Ive had 2 or 3 in the past week or so of the exact same coin looking exactly the same as that.
 
Some dodgy guy came into a pub in Wigan offering 3000 £1 coins for £300. Hey, gave my mate 10 coins to go get some drinks and he came back with drinks.
 
The best way to tell is to scape the surface of the coin with sharp scissors, a fake will easily make a mark on the coin, like a big scratch and will be discoloured (or silver) underneath, a real coin will be more hard to scratch as such, and the colour will remain the same throughout the coin...
 
I once waited 40 minutes for a bus and when I finally boarded and handed over my only pound coin. The driver returned it, told me it was a poor fake and threw me off.
I was speechless.
 
use it in a vending machine

some people at i knew at college afew years ago used to fix two 1p's together and it sometimes went through as a pound !
 
Colour can vary from coin to coin. Seen some vastly different colours. If its fake, you should be able to feel it, unless its a good one. Biting, dropping and scrapping should make it obvious.

Jokester said:
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?

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Would have to be minted properly. A modern validator is hard to scam.

fRostiE said:
use it in a vending machine

some people at i knew at college afew years ago used to fix two 1p's together and it sometimes went through as a pound !
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I'd love to know what validator that was one, and who programmed it. 1ps are the the wrong metal and completly the wrong size. A half decent validator should spot the fact its two coins too.
 
I've got a fake pound coin. If you look at it closely the detail on the queens head is poor and they look a strange colour. Most that I have seem are 'soft' and if you get a real pound coin and press them 'edge to edge' the fake ones end up with a 'v' in the edge.
Somehow vending machines seem to reject them.
 
I have collected loads in the years spent managing shops, they vary from the very good to the down right stupid. I always find it amusing when shop staff can't tell the difference when you point it out to them. :D
 
i had a fake pound once, just rubbed it on the brick wall and it was silver (only put on a bit of presure and tried with another after and it didnt do it)
 
I don't see how it would make economic sense to fake pound coins, surely it would cost almost as much to make them.
 
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