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tobermory
31 Oct 16 17:50
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I expect this is more toytown money like the new £5 note.

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tobermory
When: 31 Oct 16 17:53
Wonder how many years before they work in self service in supermarkets and vending machines.

I like the old £1 coins , millions of originals from 1983 still circulating.

Apparently though 45 million fakes out there.
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Aspro
When: 31 Oct 16 18:21
Talking of coins. A guy at work today had a £2 coin with '2 Pounds' written on it instead of Two Pounds. Can't seem to find anything online about it but it looked real enough to me... 2015 The Sure Shield of Britain coin. Anyone know?
By:
PatraTheCat
When: 31 Oct 16 18:33
What's wrong with the 2-sided ones?
By:
Foinavon
When: 31 Oct 16 18:41
The new threepenny bit. About all it's worth these days.
By:
donny osmond
When: 31 Oct 16 20:01
ive not spotted so many fakes of late, maybe they are being pulled out of circulation
instead of being recycled by banks
By:
TheChaser
When: 31 Oct 16 20:10

Aspro 31 Oct 16 17:21 Joined: 16 Dec 02 | Topic/replies: 5,558 | Blogger: Aspro's blog
Talking of coins. A guy at work today had a £2 coin with '2 Pounds' written on it instead of Two Pounds. Can't seem to find anything online about it but it looked real enough to me... 2015 The Sure Shield of Britain coin. Anyone know?


This

http://www.checkyourchange.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/twopounds2016obv3b.jpg
By:
TheChaser
When: 31 Oct 16 20:13
Edge: THE SURE SHIELD OF BRITAIN.

Mintage for Circulation: 650,000.

Collectability/Scarcity: currently 3 (for scale details see here)

NOTE THAT FAKES ARE KNOWN TO EXIST OF COIN 33a – See here.
By:
breadnbutter
When: 31 Oct 16 21:34
Listened to a debate about fakes ,they said there was  factory's producing coins in the far east but the amount of damage this does to the economy was limited ,they could simply keep withdrawing coinage and limit any new minting ,the fakers only get paid once and it costs x amount to mint money anyway .
but then a complete u-turn and a change of coin ,costing the vending machine operators millions so maybe it was a much bigger problem than admitted to .
Also as soon as the new coin comes out the forgers will be on it and producing in no time .
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donny osmond
When: 31 Oct 16 23:51
the chinese will knock out decent £2 coins for 30 cents a pop

the main forger of pound coins was shut down a few years back, but
the fakes sloshed around for long enough

you even see fake £1 coins on ebay sold as wrong dates and therefore
going for over £1

funny old world
By:
Capt__F
When: 01 Nov 16 00:28
used to freeze 50p shape ice cubes for the gas meter worked atreat for a couple years
By:
mememe
When: 01 Nov 16 16:48
Wasn't the "old" £1 coin hard to forge, then?

Read reasons why new on is more secure ...
says, amongst other things

"Hidden high security feature - an additional security feature is built into the coin to protect it from counterfeiting but details have not been revealed."


So if you get one, you won't know it's dodgy
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