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You mix in legitimate coins, and deposit them at a bank in Northern Ireland as takings from your (real) businesses. With a rotating cast of 20-ish fronts (each
by falsedan 10y ago
You mix in legitimate coins, and deposit them at a bank in Northern Ireland as takings from your (real) businesses. With a rotating cast of 20-ish fronts (each with multiple bank accounts), you could put in £1MM+ a month easy & transfer it onwards as normal-looking purchases.
Note that this was a great way to get millions of coins into circulation back in the early 2000s, not so easy now.
- jclardy 10y agoDon't vending machines have the ability to check by weight/size? Couldn't a bank just have that in their counting machine? If you have like 50% fakes it is going to look fishy.
- falsedan 10y agoMost banks don't bother. Also, most counterfeit pound coins are made from redirected planchets (blank coin base) intended to be used as Swazi lilangeni (or just restriked lilangeni), so they are identical in size, weight, and material composition to legitimate pound coins (since they use the same planchet).