Fake £1

Well firstly silly me, with that 2011 date it's unlikely to come from the electroplating factory I cited above!

Yes I did see that nltimes article, with that kind of investment I would darn well expect a better quality result than your £2 fake, not merely re the join, and no disrespect! Which is also a good clue as to which £1 series they did make.

Anyway, you left me pondering for some time what £1 fakes might have been made by the new fake £2 maker.

Silly me again, now I see someone has taken a coarse comb and brylcreem to the Queen's hair.

That I have only seen on (some of) the 2008-dated £1 'series' and one or two others apparently by the same makers, which have 'bloated' font and queen's portrait (deliberate over-exposure in reproduction process?) and a distinctly dull lacklustre brass (at least those I've found).

Riddle solved?!? I see you displayed such a £1 on p4 of this thread, does it seem to have the same brass as that as the new £2 fake?

Those "2008" £1 also seem to be the most recent-dated fake £1 to have surfaced - know of any others?

Clearly I need to get to these 99p shops more, and get change off notes every time (having first of all got out past the front door!)

The £2 must have been struck with new dies as the details are not quite correct, much as the pound coins which say "Copy" on them. The brass is a similar colour to these.

Usually the fakes are stuck from dies which have been copied from genuine coins, so the details are somewhat "mushy".

For the copied die coins the newest date I've seen is 2007,
for the new die coins is 2008.

This below fake is an oddity as it's an earlier design but with new dies. Received by me in change last September time. I presume it's one of the bloated font coins?

Hey, another £2 with 'pinkish middle' here: https://goccf.com/t/165692, quite smart looking, also a reported difference in queen's portrait. Still a little surprising they would go to such lengths but not ensure the middles were silver/grey somehow.

That is, if this lot use(d) nickel alloys at all. The lacklustre brass does look like a binary brass. Maybe they didn't procure nickel or nickel alloys to avoid attracting suspicion, but that gave them a dilemma when it came to making £2 coins.

nalaberong, fake pound coins are the new black ! ... they are fascinating because some are truly great pieces of forgery while others demonstrate the sheer laziness of the forgers . If banks find them in CWR they are sent to the mint for destruction....

despite what you might read here fake pound coins are now quite rare to get in change these days , I go through a lot of pound coins and over the past 7 months I can count with one hand the number of fakes I have received in change hence I would keep one if I got one for curiosity and educational purposes , have I ever knowingly passed one on ? Now that is an interesting question

Interesting ! I also have 3 bridge series fakes The only one I am missing is the Egyptian arch bridge fake

Interesting stuff about the varieties ..... I have changed my settings

Overstruck counterfeits? I wonder if any are struck over Icelandic 50kr or Swazi lilangenis... now that would be an awesome piece of fakery

I think I have seen just one fake pound coin here... but I didn't get my hands on it. However, I did get to see a counterfeit $1 coin being sold at a flea market for $60 as a rare contemporary counterfeit... :I