I have a pot that I throw my change in to - there's £27 in £1 coins, and one is either fake or has turned a very dubious colour.
Some fakes are amazingly real looking, some are so fake looking I find it amazing anyone actually believed it was real. I always seem to get them in small shops, pubs and take aways. Usually from independent traders who deal mostly with cash. I guess this is because the fraudsters can get away with passing them off more easily to those kinds of businesses?
To be quite honest I think we all ignore fake pound coins. Yes the obvious ones are obvious but they simply stay in circulation - you are going to use it soon and that person will pass it on too.
I think one pound is below the "worth bothering about" level, which probably makes it an ideal counterfeit target
Some fakes are amazingly real looking, some are so fake looking I find it amazing anyone actually believed it was real. I always seem to get them in small shops, pubs and take aways. Usually from independent traders who deal mostly with cash. I guess this is because the fraudsters can get away with passing them off more easily to those kinds of businesses?