Fake pound coin

[spacechimp]

I know, it's only a pound, but I feel duped.

Got change from the local Chinese, and there was a rusty, deformed 20 pence piece, and a fake pound coin. What is annoying, is that I realized in the shop, but didn't say anything.

I'd struggle to prove this, unless, I suppose, it was quite a new fake, and had few people's DNA on it.

Anyway, should I report it to the police? I'd hate to think the takeaway is a front for putting counterfeit coins into circulation.

[oldhenry]

easily done, I got one that was very good , but was a little too light. You need to reject at once, otherwise how do you prove where it was from?
I doubt the plod would care about �1, �20 perhaps. I marvel at the work someone has put into that piece of metal. Amazes me. But of course you could justt ry to pass it on, it may have come to the ****** in that way. But it behoves all of us to check the coins, here and abroad. I was passed an old 10 franc coin recently insted of a Euro, annoyed me when I found it much later in my change.

[Gmcd01]

Have a read of this:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7988001.stm
As the BBC point out, it's a growing problem because it's in nobody's interests to give up the money they know is fake.

[jojojojoanne]

paper and coins as currency are quite meaningless (if in the uk) without the royal mint stamp,

[spacechimp]

Well yes, that is indeed the problem. One could stem the flow of the counterfeit currency if one always used machines as intermediaries for transactions (� la self-service at Tesco, which is where it was confirmed that the money I had suspected to be fake, was indeed), but in whose interest is it really?

The level is factored into the value of the pound... so when is the day of reckoning where we have to pay back all of this phoney money?

[sara3]

you make it sound like the takeaway is minting fake coins behind the kitchen!

perhaps they were just passed the coin in a usual transaction, and innocently passed it on...

[ummmm]

I got a fake �20 note from a cash machine once.