Counterfeit British £1 coins could force reissue

by Coin Collecting News on July 28, 2010

There are now so many fake £1 coins in circulation the Royal Mint could be forced to scrap all of the coins and reissue the entire denomination.

Their warning came as new figures indicated there were £41 million fake £1 coins in Britain – one in every 36 in circulation. This is a record level and suggests that the proportion of counterfeit coins had tripled in the last decade. The situation has worsened since last year, when …

Full Article: Record number of fake £1 coins could force reissue – Telegraph.co.uk

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