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Old January 22nd 12, 03:50 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london,misc.transport.rail.americas
Roland Perry Roland Perry is offline
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In message , at 16:34:44 on Sun, 22 Jan
2012, Alistair Gunn remarked:
Do you mean the risk of counterfeit banknotes? This is something that
seems to have been overcome in the UK one way or another.


Though 1 in 36 of every #1 coins is fake according to some counts ...


The people who claim this never seem to have any guidance on how you can
tell, so I'm a bit sceptical.
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Roland Perry