Abundant Coin Forgery

A brief update. The BBC have released a “Spot the difference” themed video alerting the British consumers of the differences between a real and a fake £1 coin.

Whilst this might sound a bit ridiculous, apparently the Royal Mint has recently realised that their estimates of fake currency being used in the UK is almost under half of the actual figures. That is alarming for everyone.

Not using cash, I dont have to worry about this in the immediate instance, but the broader picture of our society is quite worrying –  we are so busy spending our money that we aren’t even really looking at it properly!

Watch the video here!

I can Use Shopping Trolleys Again!

Thanks to the wonderfully creative guys behind this little gem, I can unlock those thug-proof shopping trolleys and no longer need to lug two over-loaded baskets around my local super market! Brilliant!

Now all I need to do is simply, take the exactly £1 coin shaped tag off my key ring, slot it in the little clampy-gadget thing and away I go!  It gets spurted back out at me when I clunk the trolley back in! How splendid.

Thanks to Louise for sending me my very own pretend £1 coin.