Most of the coin-operated machines at modern day car parks have machines that can detect fake coins, so even if you did try to pass off a fake, you couldn't.
However it doesn't stop them putting fakes in the change dispenser section of the machine!
Only this morning did I park at an NCP car park and return to the car with £3.10 to pay at the machine. As I only had a £20 note on me, I fed it into the machine and hey presto 16 one pound coins and the 90p, all in change.
One of the £1 coins was a 2003 Ornamental Arms fake...now how did it get into the change. Obviously it was put there on purpose by an NCP employee............how many more are in that machine waiting to be dispensed???
DOUBLE STANDARDS ME THINKS!!
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That is quite a shrewd way of getting rid of a few. I have seen very little in the way of fakes over the last few months and I read in the newspaper last Monday that the Royal Mint took over one million out of circulation last year. However, I *did* get a beauty from a local shop recently... a 2003 white metal 'garden shed' fake, painted gold. This is the very first time I have ever seen one of these in circulation in these parts.
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