Fake £1

I had a few. My favourites, like the one made of lead and painted gold, or the one from the wrong mix of metal and silver in colour I've kept with a few of the 'worst' ones.

The trouble is, as far as I know, if you present them at a bank and say you think it's dodgy, they will just say thank you and you've lost £1, so there's no incentive to get rid of them.

Many I've picked up came from smaller corner shops. I have also heard that you can get them regularly from taxi drivers, but I don't travel by taxi much, so can't substantiate that.

I guess eventually they will pass through banks and be destroyed and the few left will remain as numismatic curiosities, like the George III evasion pieces and so on ..

Oh wow , thats amazing a fake 50p ! I have never seen or heard of one prior to seeing your sample .......speaking of the wrong color I got a fake 1983 pound today at the supermarket and its coloring was odd , the letters on the date were a bit weak but everything else was very good ....

I find that Superstores and garages are good places to get A LOT of fakes from .....

LOL! thats the worst fake pound coin ever! Where did you get that from the Aussies? We sent all our rubbish over there many moons ago, now they are sending it back.

I've only ever come across three fake two pound coins.
They're all a single metal type/planchet , with the nickel-brass outer being painted gold.
One is possible cast, as there is what appears to be a sprue/cast mark where the + should be on the edge inscription.

I only have photos of one of them at the moment, but will take some photos of the other two soon.

Interesting £2 find




They managed to fake them on £20 notes (& 100 Euros) so probably not that hard...

http://www.heraldscotland.com/how-p...ger-1.866395

Those holograms on 2 pound coins are quite visible on new coins but if you get a 2 pound coin that has been in circulation for a while it will be hard to see it properly as the hologram scratches and damages easily over time.......all a forger has to do is make a coin that looks liked it has been in curculation for a while then add a less than half decent hologram and it probably will probably pass ...

Took longer than it should have but here's some pics of my fake £2 coins.




and a couple of fake 10p's just for laughs !!

My mother works as a betting shop manager, so handles cash all day, every day.
Anything unusual she puts in the bottom of the pile for me to look at when I pick her up.
She thought she'd found another fake 10p yesterday, but turns out it was a VERY weak strike !