Hinky coins

[silentbrown]

Just found I had this in my change.




Pretty sure it's a wrong 'un. The 'gold' colour is way too shiny, Brenda's nose is too pointy and it's missing the inscription on the milled edges.

Good effort otherwise, though.

[K87]

Thanks for posting, There are a few other issues too, this is like the old Spot the Difference pictures.

[geeks]

Its not even a good fake!

https://www.checkyourchange.co.uk/2-pound-coins/20...

[silentbrown]

K87 said:

Thanks for posting, There are a few other issues too, this is like the old Spot the Difference pictures.

Yes, the 'heads' side shouldn't have "Two Pounds" on it and the centre spot on the tail should have more (and finer) vertical lines than the middle section.

[The Rotrex Kid]

I wonder how much these cost to actually make?

Like is is £1 each or less? Surely you have to be cranking out a load of then to make it worthwhile?

[Jonmx]

If you made one that was identical in every respect, from design through to metallurgical composition and it was literally indistinguishable from a Royal Mint produced coin, could it really be called a fake? If the point of origin and issuing body is what determines the value, but there's no traceability (unlike notes with serial numbers) it effectively renders official currency redundant. I can almost understand the push towards digital currency. Obviously the 3 bob note equivalent you have there isn't applicable

[AlexC1981]

I had a temporary job once for the local council. One of my roles was to put all the coins from parking pay machines though a sorter. I always used to look at the fakes it spat out and I could usually spot when I had a fake pound coin in my wallet. I was surprised by how many there are.

The biggest giveaway was the imprint not being perfectly centred on the coin. If you look at the coin above, you can see the distance between the dots and the edge of the coin is greater at the bottom than the top.

[Colonel Cupcake]

No-one ever checks coins, either the shop or the customer. I was stuck with a large number of 2 euro coins. Even though the gold and silver parts are reversed, compared to a 2 pound coin, they all eventually got accepted.

[Tony_T]

Just thought it might be worth posting if anyone has an Atlantic salmon 50p (2023/2024) they are going for £100 plus on ebay at the moment due to having a low mintage figure.

[outnumbered]

The previous generation of £1 coins were very heavily faked, the Mint reckoned up to 3% of the circulation was fake back in 2010. If you took a moment to check, they were usually easy to spot, and not just because of the detailing but basic stuff like the edge mottos not matching the faces.

You'd think if you were making the effort to fake coins, that you'd at least get the basic details right.

[silentbrown]

K87 said:

That's kosher, but just weird. It's a coin produced in 2022 to mark 25 years of £2 coins, but they put the 1997 date on it!