£5 notes or £5 coins

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What do you think the Royal Mint should do?

Keep the current £5 Note
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Introduce a new smaller £5 coin
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Gavin Scott
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Chris wrote:I don't think I'd like to see a £5 coin - I know such things exist as I've seen offers for them in the back of magazines and newspapers.

I never know £1 coins could be faked - excuse me for sounding a bit dense, but how can you tell if it's fake? :?
Forgive the quick n' dirty picture, but I think you get the idea.

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The fakes are pressed from lead (or some other soft metal), and painted with a gold colour. As you can see from the one in my pocket, its been dented on the edge to a flat surface. That just wouldn't happen with a real coin. Often you will see the lines in the edge are smudged or missing - again that shouldn't happen to a real one.

They also have a duller sound when you bounce one on a table, but that's not easy to do at the checkout.
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Gavin Scott wrote:
Chris wrote:I don't think I'd like to see a £5 coin - I know such things exist as I've seen offers for them in the back of magazines and newspapers.

I never know £1 coins could be faked - excuse me for sounding a bit dense, but how can you tell if it's fake? :?
Forgive the quick n' dirty picture, but I think you get the idea.

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The fakes are pressed from lead (or some other soft metal), and painted with a gold colour. As you can see from the one in my pocket, its been dented on the edge to a flat surface. That just wouldn't happen with a real coin. Often you will see the lines in the edge are smudged or missing - again that shouldn't happen to a real one.

They also have a duller sound when you bounce one on a table, but that's not easy to do at the checkout.
I have seen a real one once in the condition of that fake one, I knew it real by all the tests you mentioned. I looked like someone had cut off one end or smashed it hard.

most to line up if you swing them round when their fake & the writing on the side is often of poor quality
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Thinking about all the filth on money, I've just gone and washed all the coins on my desk.

Try it yourself, I only used hot water and Dove™ but all the coins have lost that horrible smell that money has.
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I have a £5 coin from when Princess Diana died. I'll try and upload a picture.
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Here's a £5 coin.
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Heres another one from the Queen's Jubilee. I'm pretty sure we got them by trading in a £5 note for each of them from the Post Office.
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Looks to me that would be easier to fake than the current £2 coin. I remember before the £2 was introduced properly, there had been several versions issued as special editions, like the five pound one, but only made of the one metal. If someone gave me one of them while I worked at Superdrug I had to accept it as it was legal tender, though the manager always put them in the section of the till where people had tried to pass off Jersey currency and things, which I don't think was right. But would you accept one of those £5 coins in your change NOW, bearing in mind most shops would be fussy about accepting it?
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Hey, we could start a whole mini Lou and Andy sketch from our signatures, Antz. :P ;)
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Brad wrote:Hey, we could start a whole mini Lou and Andy sketch from our signatures, Antz. :P ;)
Yaaaaaaaaysss. :lol:
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Brad wrote:Looks to me that would be easier to fake than the current £2 coin. I remember before the £2 was introduced properly, there had been several versions issued as special editions, like the five pound one, but only made of the one metal. If someone gave me one of them while I worked at Superdrug I had to accept it as it was legal tender, though the manager always put them in the section of the till where people had tried to pass off Jersey currency and things, which I don't think was right. But would you accept one of those £5 coins in your change NOW, bearing in mind most shops would be fussy about accepting it?
it was our policy only to accept £5 issued after a certain year - 2000 i think it was. ones issued prior to the date are not legal tender - or there is an issue with banking them. mind you, plenty of the girls accepted them anyway, no matter how many times i told them off :roll:
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nodnirG kraM wrote:Well try it with New Cillit Bang! Woo! Bloke on the advert did, and look how shiny half of his penny was. Woo.
yes, but that thing sounds like clit bang to me
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