Fake £1 coins

[Lamp]

Apparently there are more than £30m worth of fake £1 coins in circulation

BBC NEWS | Magazine | How do you spot a fake pound coin?

 

[pikeh]

£30 million?!
That must be like, A MILLION pound coins!11

 

[tris-]

That £1 coin in your pocket could be worthless.

its not though is it? if i hand it over to a shopkeeper i get a product in return.

maybe its just me but ive never seen someone examining coins when i hand them over. they may shuffle about to count them but not examine how authentic they are.

they arnt worthless untill people stop accepting them. untill then theyre worth a quid.

 

[Lamp]

I had one earlier. I bought a bag of crisps and gave it straight back to the shop who gave it to me originally ! No one's gonna hand them in. No one gives a hoot. As long as everyone keeps trading them the system keeps ticking along

 

[tris-]

=! No one's gonna hand them in.

i reckon theres 1000s of sad ***** sat at home now checking their coins.
the news tell them something, they wont question it.

 

[Lamp]

Indeed.

Oh...just heard on the news: a swan has been made president of Peru

 

[BobbyJewells]

Indeed.

Oh...just heard on the news: a swan has been made president of Peru

*Goes to wikipedia* nnnope XD, that'd be the day though.

 

[Thadius]

Its great, they say hand it over if its fake.

Why the fuck should I do that? Some bastard gave me it, im going to pass it on for a product, otherwise im a quid out of pocket.

 

[Laddey]

Its great, they say hand it over if its fake.

Why the fuck should I do that? Some bastard gave me it, im going to pass it on for a product, otherwise im a quid out of pocket.

Totally agree, but it's swings & roundabouts. By doing that we're making somebody else a quid out of pocket.

Shit happens i guess.

 

[Lamp]

Admit it. If you had all the equipment, and could make a half decent fake pound coin, you'd do it, wouldn't you ?

 

[Laddey]

Admit it. If you had all the equipment, and could make a half decent fake pound coin, you'd do it, wouldn't you ?

Fuckin' right.

Get rich or die trying?

 

[Thadius]

Admit it. If you had all the equipment, and could make a half decent fake pound coin, you'd do it, wouldn't you ?

No, I might be skint as it stands but I will never commit forgery.

 

[sayward]

I had one, someone must have passed it to me, newsagent wouldn't take it, I hadn't noticed it, but when I examined it ,it felt and looked different. He told me to put it in a slot machine! Lady at the Dartford crossing wouldn't take it so on the way back I threw it in their basket! It didn't notice!

 

[fettoken]

Fuckin' right.

Get rich or die trying?

Get rich or get rich trying again or get rich trying again... and so on imo!

 

[old.Tohtori]

Admit it. If you had all the equipment, and could make a half decent fake pound coin, you'd do it, wouldn't you ?

Fuckin' right.

Get rich or die trying?

How you gonna die doing that?!


You're gonna die in a freak smelting accident?

 

[Laddey]

How you gonna die doing that?!


You're gonna die in a freak smelting accident?

Haha

Its off a film