Have you got one

jaysay · 22-09-2008, 16:05

Its been stated that 2% of one pound coins are fakes, or around 30 million. They reacon its easy to tell, If you hold the coin with the queens head facing you virtical, whatever is on the other side should also be virtical, if its not is a dud, also the writing around the edge is very poor type face or is missing altogether. I have a few pound coins and I've checked mine and they are all genuine

Benipete · 22-09-2008, 16:13

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Originally Posted by jaysay

Its been stated that 2% of one pound coins are fakes, or around 30 million. They reacon its easy to tell, If you hold the coin with the queens head facing you virtical, whatever is on the other side should also be virtical, if its not is a dud, also the writing around the edge is very poor type face or is missing altogether. I have a few pound coins and I've checked mine and they are all genuine

I've got 30 million

jaysay · 22-09-2008, 16:38

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Originally Posted by Benipete

I've got 30 million

So your the one they're after Beni

panther · 22-09-2008, 17:30

well ill check the pound coins and 2 pound coins but i cant be assed checking the rest!, even if i did id give em to the bus driver

cashman · 22-09-2008, 18:18

ta fer the heads up, have no duds,but i know who i'll pass em to if i get some.

Benipete · 22-09-2008, 20:06

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Originally Posted by cashman

ta fer the heads up, have no duds,but i know who i'll pass em to if i get some.

Are you still doing the Euro trick down the Asda

WillowTheWhisp · 22-09-2008, 20:08

If they weigh the same I bet a lot end up in bags at the bank.

BERNADETTE · 22-09-2008, 20:18

Mum has one of the duds, the difference is easy to spot but doubt anybody checks all their change to the extent of noticing a dud(up to now that is)

Bonnyboy · 22-09-2008, 20:37

Don’t have any, I did check a manky one this aft tho. Thought it might have been lead underneath but it seems ok

Bagpuss · 22-09-2008, 20:53

They still work in the brew machine at work.

jambutty · 22-09-2008, 21:58

There was something on the Jeremy Vine show today that caught my ear, apart from the forged coins bit. And that was that if you pass on a dud coin or note without knowing that it was dud you cannot get prosecuted.

There was something that I heard a while back on the wireless where it was reported that a coin the same size, colour and weight of a pound coin was being imported from an African country, I think it was. Its value in its homeland was a few pence.

Forgeries do make a case for using plastic instead of real cash. But I think that cash in the form of notes and coin will be with us for a long while yet. It beats carrying a pig under one arm and a goose under the other to exchange for a TV.