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22-09-2008, 16:05
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Resting in Peace
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Have you got one
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
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22-09-2008, 16:13
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Re: Have you got one
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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
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I've got 30 million
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22-09-2008, 16:38
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Re: Have you got one
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I've got 30 million
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So your the one they're after Beni
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22-09-2008, 17:30
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Re: Have you got one
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
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22-09-2008, 18:18
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Coffin Dodger.
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Re: Have you got one
ta fer the heads up, have no duds,but i know who i'll pass em to if i get some.
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22-09-2008, 20:06
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Re: Have you got one
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ta fer the heads up, have no duds,but i know who i'll pass em to if i get some.
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Are you still doing the Euro trick down the Asda
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22-09-2008, 20:08
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Re: Have you got one
If they weigh the same I bet a lot end up in bags at the bank.
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22-09-2008, 20:18
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Re: Have you got one
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)
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22-09-2008, 20:37
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Re: Have you got one
Don’t have any, I did check a manky one this aft tho. Thought it might have been lead underneath but it seems ok
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22-09-2008, 20:53
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Accy Red
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Re: Have you got one
They still work in the brew machine at work.
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22-09-2008, 21:58
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Re: Have you got one
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.
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22-09-2008, 22:10
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Administrator
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Re: Have you got one
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Originally Posted by jambutty
It beats carrying a pig under one arm and a goose under the other to exchange for a TV.
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Never mind pigs and geese, can I get a TV licence for one psychotic goat?
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23-09-2008, 00:24
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Re: Have you got one
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Never mind pigs and geese, can I get a TV licence for one psychotic goat?
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Don't get a tv licence for your goat, watching tv makes them even more psychotic.
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23-09-2008, 04:16
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Grand Wizard Of The Inner Clique
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Re: Have you got one
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So your the one they're after Beni
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He won them off me at shove ha'penny!
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23-09-2008, 09:14
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Re: Have you got one
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Never mind pigs and geese, can I get a TV licence for one psychotic goat?
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You rotten sod Neil, the poor goat only needs some love and affection, and you want to swop it for your TV licence
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