New pound coins

• Brian Dixon

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  24 April 2017     14:42327102
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  I thought it was hard to forge one,but apparently not.
  
  https://www.thesun.co.uk/money/3397510/counterfeit-1-found-by-charity-worker-after-claims-the-coin-is-impossible-to-copy/
• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
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  25 April 2017     15:04327153
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  Not a forgery after all but could be valuable, still only seen one myself in the month since they were issued.
  
  
  
  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/consumer-affairs/hang-forged-new-1-coins-could-highly-valuable/
• Button

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  25 April 2017     15:26327154
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  I can't quite get my head around the issue of forged (old) £1 coins. If we all accept them as "real", that is they will buy £1's worth of stuff and are accepted by banks, then haven't the forgers just saved the Royal Mint the trouble of, er, minting them?
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• Paul Gee

  • Registered: 30 Oct 2016
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  25 April 2017     15:32327155
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  Surely the point is that the forgers are the one's who have obtained goods using a forged item and therefore not paid for their goods.
• Button

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  25 April 2017     15:36327156
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  That's true, though it will have cost them something to make them, I assume. But if I get one and can use it as if it is real, then in a sense it is real?
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