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The new £1 Coin

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Re: The new £1 Coin

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Post by oneeyedpigeon »

As a UK citizen, it stuns me that one-in-thirty pound coins is a fake because a) i can't imagine how it's possibly worth it b) out of the thousands of pound coins i must have handled, I've never spotted a fake - they must be very good. Still, the new coin certainly looks nice!

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Post by smcl »

"The pound won’t be round for much longer" is a pretty awful tagline, I'm not sure they realised what this sounds like...

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Post by blue1 »

> Hidden high security feature – a high security feature is built into the coin to protect it from counterfeiting in the future.

"security through obscurity" as a feature?

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Post by chrisseaton »

d--b wrote: post #5

Just curious, has anyone any insight into what that "hidden high security feature is"?

I think it's some kind of radio signal transceiver, because I saw a video where they talk about detecting it at high speed from a small distance as coins pass through a system.

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Post by tspiteri »

oneeyedpigeon wrote: post #3

As a UK citizen, it stuns me that one-in-thirty pound coins is a fake because a) i can't imagine how it's possibly worth it b) out of the thousands of pound coins i must have handled, I've never spotted a fake - they must be very good. Still, the new coin certainly looks nice!

I've had machines refuse one pound coins, which then looked slightly off on closer inspection when comparing to other coins.
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