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It will cost a fortune and it's bad timing but I suppose coins are changed and new ones introduced from time to time. When was the last change? 5p possibly? £2 coin?

Haha! I have an image of a chap strolling off the pier with a sled piled high with coinage, whistling and nodding hello to passers by.

They were saying on the radio that they change the print on the back of the coin regularly and you can tell a fake if the picture doesn't match up with the date on the coin. You'd think if you were going to stamp a load of fake coins you would check this rather important detail by simply looking...

They're going to have a discussion on R2 about it in a bit. Hopefuly this question may get raised.

I see what you are saying. Fake money is always sold at a fraction of it's "face value" but I mean the physical act of shifting enough of them to make it worthwhile. Sell them abroad fine but you then have to physically move a huge quantity of metal coinage. Even moving them domestically is...

Maybe he just intended to shop in Poundland one item at a time for the rest of his life. Edit: Yes, £45M worth out there.

Well yes, but I mean the sheer volume of them.

I imagine you're right. But £19 M worth? Bonkers!

I believe the Germans tried something similar in WW2?

Yeah, hard that on R2 a min ago. I remember when I worked in loss prevention/stock control in town and a guy came in with a fake £20 to pay for something. He claimed he was given it as change at the burger stand outside Churchill square. He went rather red when I pointed out that to get a £20...

I imagine it works that way but was just baffled how they could then get rid of enough to make it worth one's while.

Just heard on the wireless that a chap has been caught with 19 million pieces of metal destined to be turned into fake £1 coins. Got me thinking. How on earth would you go about getting those into circulation? I know people probably buy loads of them on the black market, but how do they then...