antnee
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I handle 100's of pound coins a week, but don't know a fake one. Notes are a different matter, I can tell a real one by feel.
TBH, if I did suspect a coin was fake, I would give it back out as change anyway!
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Generation
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Originally posted by lostboy
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Originally posted by Generation
I work in a bank, and I have to not only take fake notes but refuse to give them back, some people really kick off
What happens if someone brings you an old £5 note, do you exchange it for a new one? As I work in a shop and often get the old £5's and some £10's (one mother fucker thought they could hide the old £5's in with some new ones, the look on their face when I told them was priceless)
Yup just exchage them
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ed
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what i dont get is with the right steel and then tempered and obviously the correct print i dont see why it cant be successful
It's about half a mm too big, the font on the text round the side is wrong and it has no detail in it what so ever. To make a 'real' fake pound coin would cost a lot more than a pound because of the specialist equipment needed to do it.
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ed
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Plus I'm keeping me fake pound as a souvenir of buying lunch yesterday.
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antnee
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Has anyone got some good pics of fake ones?
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Dav
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I used to get loads of fake £1 and £2 coins (and bank notes, Capital Bonds, etc.) On some of the £2's, the gold colour around the edge would scrape off to be dull metallic silver underneith, but it sounded plastic like a casino chip when you tapped it on another coin.
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Whittie
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Tbh with you, i've just spent the last 5 mins going through your twitpics 
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Whittie
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Fake on the left.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/43328246@N00/4284755449/
[Edited on 03-06-2010 by Whittie]
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ed
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What did you enjoy the most on there?
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Winemaker
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I blame global warming TBH
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Twiggy
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Someone tried to give me a Scotish £20 note the other day!! Cheeky fucker, not even in the same country!
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Neo
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Head doesnt line up with the tail side either.
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Sam
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Originally posted by Twiggy
Someone tried to give me a Scotish £20 note the other day!! Cheeky fucker, not even in the same country!
Why are they a cheeky fucker? It's legal tender in the UK.
[Edited on 03-06-2010 by Sam]
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Whittie
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What did you enjoy the most on there?
Burger phone was a highlight to be honest with you.
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Generation
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quote:
Originally posted by Sam
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Originally posted by Twiggy
Someone tried to give me a Scotish £20 note the other day!! Cheeky fucker, not even in the same country!
Why are they a cheeky fucker? It's legal tender in the UK.
[Edited on 03-06-2010 by Sam]
Exactly, we get couple of hundred everyday at work
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JaffaTB
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my dad had a fake quid, used it at the paki shop to put the lottery on
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John
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quote:
Originally posted by Generation
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Originally posted by Sam
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Originally posted by Twiggy
Someone tried to give me a Scotish £20 note the other day!! Cheeky fucker, not even in the same country!
Why are they a cheeky fucker? It's legal tender in the UK.
[Edited on 03-06-2010 by Sam]
Exactly, we get couple of hundred everyday at work
It's actually not legal tender, should still take them anyway though.
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Generation
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Technically no, you're right, however major shops will accept, little ones are less likly
[Edited on 03-06-2010 by Generation]
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Kurt
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I had 220 quid in scottish notes the other day 
A guy off ctro came down from Edinburgh for my Buddy club. i never even thought about them until i was handed a wad of them
also the whole legal tender thing reminds me of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kO9ZNQRm-s
1.00 on
[Edited on 03-06-2010 by Kurt]
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lostboy
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Scottish notes are sterling and are marked as that, alot of customers refuse them in their change and say its funny money etc, whilst in London once a beer shop refused to take them as they had never seen them before  funny that, I heard plenty of Scots in London.
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gravesy
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Originally posted by Twiggy
Someone tried to give me a Scotish £20 note the other day!! Cheeky fucker, not even in the same country!
I used to work in Glasgow, always a panic to get rid of notes before I headed back darn sarf every couple of weeks. The amount of shite I used to buy at the airport.
I know they're accepted most places but you get some funny looks from twats when trying to use them.
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Sam
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Are Scottish & Northern Irish notes legal tender?
In short ‘No’ these notes are not legal tender; only Bank of England notes are legal tender but only in England and Wales.
The term legal tender does not in itself govern the acceptability of banknotes in transactions. Whether or not notes have legal tender status, their acceptability as a means of payment is essentially a matter for agreement between the parties involved. Legal tender has a very narrow technical meaning in relation to the settlement of debt.
If a debtor pays in legal tender the exact amount he owes under the terms of a contract, he has good defence in law if he is subsequently sued for non-payment of the debt. In ordinary everyday transactions, the term ‘legal tender’ has very little practical application.
-- taken from here.
Learn something new every day 
It all sounds a bit stupid to me, as the BoE authorise Scottish and NI banks to issue bank notes by an Act of Parliament so you'd of thought they would just say "yes English, Scottish and NI bank notes are legal tender to use in all of the UK"?
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Sam
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BTW - we wouldn't have this problem if we used the Euro...
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noshua
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We get Scottish notes at work all the time as well, allowed to accept but told not to give them out as change.
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Dav
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quote:
Originally posted by gravesy
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Originally posted by Twiggy
Someone tried to give me a Scotish £20 note the other day!! Cheeky fucker, not even in the same country!
I used to work in Glasgow, always a panic to get rid of notes before I headed back darn sarf every couple of weeks. The amount of shite I used to buy at the airport.
You know you can just exchange them for English notes at the bureau de change, yeah?
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