fake £1 pound coins
 

anybody get a regular amount of these?

i think i average about 1 per week, there must be ****en thousands in circulation, started double checking the coins when people are paying, and did "catch" one but it was a old woman and she said she had just got her change from asda :rolleyes:

found yet another one in the vacuum bunker yesterday and i am sick of flinging them away.

the latest one is nearly all silver as most of the gold paint has been removed, its obviously had a hard life :rolleyes:

I've only ever came accross one.

Do you own a poundshop? ;)

paint it again :D

I always checked fake pound coins by biting them a couple of years back they were really soft.

Why not just use them again? you were obviously too preocupied to pick up on someone giving them to you so I doubt anyone in asda will stop you when buying your morning newspaper etc....

Dude, I've got bags of them.

will do you a good deal:norty:

Had some dodgy little chav try to sell me some many, many moons ago whilst i was getting fags out of a machine, they where 20p each apparently!

they are being used in my self service vacuum machine!!

20p per £ or 20p per lb?? ;):D

Well if the weight is good enough for the vacuum machine have you tried them in gamblers etc???

i tried one a while back in the vacuum bunker and it did not work, i was suprised to find that some will work.

i cant spend them?

it pissed me right off when we ended up taking a dodgy £20, so its wrong to pass these onto somebody else IMO

when talkiing with the post office bloke wo does my banking he told me that "just for tiles" around the corner had also took a £20 at the same time :rolleyes:

all cash is now checked 100% infront of the punter, holding up notes to check the winking lady and useing a counterfit pen, but these bloody £1 coins going into the vacuums will end up crippling me ;)

Get it converted to a token system where they have to buy the token from you and you can then check the cash up front!

I get them given all the time from the canteen at work, never had any problems spending them on though ;) .

In fact, those vacuum machines are excellent at accepting them!....oooops, did I just say that?!



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thats not an option

the whole idea of our system is that you do not have to buy a token for anything.

ie: goto a petrol station, get out and wander about getting a token for a wash.

tokens are out, i think i have a spare coin mech down the stores, will have a look at it and see if i can "tweak" it

Mickey, just spend them?!?!? save them for days when you go to places like Skegness for the weekend, take them into the arcades and change them at the tills for 10p's etc :D

lol @ going on holiday with a bag full of fake coins

you would honestly just rip somebody else off?

Honesty in the north of england ?? :confused:

Am i reading this right ??












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never seen one!

Once (if) chip takes off this will be a problem of the past.

The only place I have to use coin these days is at the bakers because he doesn't have a machine, otherwise I chip or pin everywhere else. :)

You chip and pin everytime you buy a £2.20 pint of lager? You chip and pin everytime you buy a sausage and egg bap at the burger van outside BnQ on a Saturday morning?

Change will always be given out, people will always want to withdraw notes etc etc....

What do you reckon they cost to make?

You've got to buy the material, make a mould, cast them, then paint them. I reckon it'd cost about £1 to make each one.... So who's bothering and where do they launder them in bulk?

Obviously worthwhile or they wouldn't be around but huge hassle for small return.

Best one I heard was in the local paper. Back in the days of the previous notes some pondlife was passing of counterfeit fivers in nearby Tewkesbury, they were B&W photocopies crayonned in blue...... Reckon he deserves a pat on the back for trying and anyone taken in deserved to lose the money.

been told that you can buy em in for around 20 to 35p each in big bags

google search told me that in 2003 the royal mint think that 1% of coins in use are fake

so there is around 15 million in use :rolleyes:
after looking at a spare coin mech there it not much i can do TBH

its all down to the size of the coin, the previous ones i had tried must have been a little bit to thin, although i have now sussed out how to make the mech take £2 coins only :lol:

Dutch treat
 

Dave - yes I chip in our staff pub, at the hockey club bar (neither of them take cash) and also if I have a tab running behind the bar at my local in town. No pints though. Only little girly glasses - which will still get you drunk if you inbibe enough of them though! :)

The last time I took cash out of a machine or used it to pay for something is around 3 weeks ago.

Suresh

They've been around f'ages. Used to take/see/tell pikeys with them to fcuk off at least a few times a day when i worked on the fairs/arcades 10 years ago.

Cast ??

ive got one thats in two halves, but with a superb machined interferance fit, the only reason i spotted it, is because one of the halves, had broken a chunk off and had beet pushed in with blue tak,

i showed it to our design guys, and they reckoned the machining of the two halves would have exceeded the cost of the coin itself

mart

Did hear these were probably being made in Eastern Europe and coming over on trucks - legit factories set up to machine other things, but working a night shift to churn them out. Apart from the material cost ( next to nothing ) and electricity then they arent going to cost much to produce.

Sounds very likely.

nothing. in fact someone else pays you to make them, at least to cast them that is.

when foundrys pour their metal there's always some over. line up your moulds, fill them as and when you've got spare and you're quids in.

apparently;)

plus most come from abroad where castings are cheaper than over here to start with and the cost of a finished fake is maybe a couple of pence at the absoloute max.

Not too sensible as the fakes are usually made of some sort of alloy which contains a lot of lead!

rub it on a plain white piece of paper if it makes a blck line/mark it is fake ..lead content:thumb:

oops sorry black line/mark

I could do with a load of these! Would come in very handy at the old 'pound in the pot' pubs I ocassionaly frequent...!!!