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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;daveydempsey, post: 3206379, member: 29458&quot;]I had a few old £1 coins passed to me in change, if you examined them you could usually tell they were fake.</p><p>The alignment was never correct, real ones were struck in medal alignment, the fakes were always out by about %30.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve not heard of or seen any fakes of the new issues.</p><p><br /></p><p>I did get a fake bimetallic £2 coin&nbsp; a few weeks ago, it was given to me by my local newsagent, he thought it was an error coin and he saved it for me.</p><p>It is the only one I have seen.</p><p>The alignment and weight is spot on but the strike is weak and the colour is just wrong.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]831230[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]831231[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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