Ratweasels: in ur wallet dilutin ur curr & C

[ailbhe]

I have been saving up my spending money for a wild weekend spree, and I took out my hoarded coins this evening, handed them (a pound coin and a fifty pence) to Rob, and asked him to take Emer and go and buy biscuits. He had a quick look at the pound, which turned into a prolonged look, and I vaguely remembered a BBC News headline, and with sinking heart I said "Oh, no, is it fake?"

Yup.

I briefly tried to imagine a world in which I got to have biscuits anyway - no dice, even when I checked with Rob whose conscience is not as, hahahaha, tightly honed to "stun" as mine - and it's sitting on the table now lurking at me. Tomorrow I shall stop a policeperson in the street and give it to them.

Rob turned out his pockets and found money so now we have biscuits. Hurrah!

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[gmh.livejournal.com]

Some of the better ones get that right (a lot don't); another telltale sign is uneven milling around the edge - around the middle of the edge of the coin, the milling is pretty much normal, but around the two edges of the edge, the milling is superficial at best and smooth at worst.