Uk~ Interesting Find From The Circulation In The Uk~

I got £3 worth of pennies at the bank. Didn't get a single 2015 coin though.

Probably have to wait until later in the year.

Another fake £2 coin from my change today, I heard it before I saw it.
Weight - 11.95g
















This 1 is dated 2011, the portrait is poor, the edge inscription is weak and poorly done and the reverse is mushy with the hologram stamped on instead.
Not sure where this one fits in with the known examples but I can see why it has passed through circulation without being found till now, it was the sound it made when hitting other coins that alerted me.

Earliest example like that with the correct colours I could find reported was by RED in the Fake £1 thread on 16/3/14. I have heard the alloys are very close to the real thing and can fool machines with varying success.

I.e. they had got there before Osborne's announcement of the new £1 coin when he declared "It's vital that we stay several paces ahead of the criminals"!

The Coin-Mech company claim to have found the earlier version with the pinkish centre by summer 2013, reported at least twice subsequently on this forum.

All seem to derive from one master die for each side and for the edge motto, though motto letters have sometimes had more calligraphic looking imprint. All 2011, but both faces differ considerably on the 'personalised 2011 £2' discussed in own thread though its Queen's head came from same master engraving.

I'd like to know: concerning the fake £1 permutations with re-engraved dies and irregular edge engravings, some of which have that same imitation Queen's head, is there anything to indicate whether they were still being made recently and concurrently with the re-engraved die fake £2?

Fake £2 are still quite elusive for me... I still only have the 5 (I know my site STILL only has 4... dunno how that happened) The 5th is the from the same production as the 4th but it better coloured and the center is near perfectly fitted. Both of which match yours above Tenbob, although yours appears to have a die crack/chunk in the cogs at 7:30-9 whereas mine has marks pertaining to damage in the area, but not as drastic.
I am actually trying to put an order in some 'hot off the press' fake £2's (Yep, you read that right, I'm attempting to order a few test pieces direct from the manufacturers in China... They've got all 4 2015 Designs available to buy !!)

Hi RED
That certainly " looks " like a wrong un, its the edge that's bothering me the most. something seems wrong to my eye, I'm seeing a double strike or ghosts of letters between the stamped ones. Certainly odd.
In less than a month I have found 2 x £2 & 3 x £1, how crazy is that ?
I think I may also have found a 1988 shield fake for you RED, give me 10 mins and I will do some pics for you.

Took a bit longer than ten minutes
The more I look at it I think its just had a bit of hammer over the years

@tenbobbit. Main error I can see is the kink in the edge letter U but I think that's just collar die trauma. As you may know, one of the commoner fake Third Portrait series has slanting latin motto letters but the final E is squarer and dumpier and the top of the M seems to have no serifs unlike yours. Esp. noticeable in that series is the DECUS U usually (originally?) squarer than it should be. E.g. RED this is one: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fakeq...650737782111

@RED, that's what I assumed they meant and that E+S are the "DECUS LACESS(IT) TUTAMEN".