Dodgy Coins

[ChristianZS]

I have been given some £2 coins this morning from the local Tesco and one of them seems to be upside down and all the spacing is out around the edges..

What can I do with it?

Here are some pictures too

Fake:

Good:

Fake on Left, Good on Right

[Adenauer]

I'll come back to this thread in three weeks when the pics have loaded

[Easy_Targa]

TV the other day said that there are 30 million counterfeit £1 coins in circulation.....why not £2 coins as well...

[fatboy b]

Adenauer said:

I'll come back to this thread in three weeks when the pics have loaded

Yep!

[bigTee]

spend it??

[bint]

How to spot a fake £1 - may work for the £2 coins too?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7628930.stm

[FourWheelDrift]

I'm sure I read somewhere that it's not worth faking a £2 coin due to the bi-metal design.

[Tunku]

Sell it for a fiver on ebay, but describe it as a "prototype"

[crofty1984]

So you go to bank, say "I believe these coins are faked" and they take them off you.
OR
You spend them.

[Shaw Tarse]

crofty1984 said:

So you go to bank, say "I believe these coins are faked" and they take them off you.
OR
You spend them.

It's an offence to spend them if you know they are fake!
I would take them to the bank/police

[wildoliver]

Oh give over being so wet, just spend it.

In fairness it could just be one someone has popped the centre out of, I've done it a few times when I was bored.

[mybrainhurts]

The chocolate centre gives them away...

[ChristianZS]

The sandwich shop has it now, That butty tasted so much better.

[Soft Top]

I had something exactly like they described on TV a month or so ago. The faces on the coin were not in line. I figured if the dartford toll accepted the coin it was OK...

...it did. I have no regrets.

[Adenauer]

Soft Top said:

I had something exactly like they described on TV a month or so ago. The faces on the coin were not in line. I figured if the dartford toll accepted the coin it was OK...

...it did. I have no regrets.

No? No regrets?

[gib6933]

wildoliver said:

Oh give over being so wet, just spend it.

In fairness it could just be one someone has popped the centre out of, I've done it a few times when I was bored.

How? i put one on the press once and it just bent.
hang on now i think about it wonder if it was a fake one?

[wildoliver]

Dead easy, either use a pair of sockets in the same way you press suspension bushes out, or use a ring of coins round the outside on the workbench supporting the rim but not the centre, put a 5p in the centre and wallop with hammer. Obviously refitting is just a case of resting in hole and hitting on a flat surface. I used to find it amusing to swap the centre round. Bear in mind I was young and very very bored. I have since got a life