Fake pound coins - hypothetical question

fluffnutter

I got given a fake £1 coin once. I knew it was dodgy on account of it being silver-coloured. Fake FAIL!

shaun_from_Africa

I don't know about £1 coins, but it is very easy to make a fake 10p piece.
As they are both made from the same metal, all you have to do is to get a 50p piece and file the corners off it and it will then be accepted in the 10p slot of all vending machines.

TechnoBadger

shaun_from_Africa wrote: »

I don't know about £1 coins, but it is very easy to make a fake 10p piece.
As they are both made from the same metal, all you have to do is to get a 50p piece and file the corners off it and it will then be accepted in the 10p slot of all vending machines.

That's a good tip. I have a lot of 50ps in a jar and I already own a file!

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omen666

shaun_from_Africa wrote: »

I don't know about £1 coins, but it is very easy to make a fake 10p piece.
As they are both made from the same metal, all you have to do is to get a 50p piece and file the corners off it and it will then be accepted in the 10p slot of all vending machines.

In the same way you used to be able to put stcky foil on the old 10ps and shape them to be like the old 50ps. The machines on London Underground used to take them.

People would fill them with say 10 x 50ps (really 10ps) select a £5.10 ticket, then cancel the transaction and the machine would refund you 10 new 50ps out of the bottom of the hopper rather than the 10 fake coins you inserted

£4 return for every pound

Biketrials08

shaun_from_Africa wrote: »

The problem is pink, the coins were probably just loaded into the machine by someone tipping a few bags into the coin reservoir so they wouldn't have been weighed or tested by the coin mechanism.
However, when attempting to put the fake back in, it will probably be rejected by the machine.

This is the most likely scenario, coin acceptors are very good at identifying fakes or, more accurately, coins that don't meet the reference criteria.