The new £1 coin is meant to be impossible to copy, but a curious looking quid may prove the experts wrong.

Martin Shaw, a reporter at the Huddersfield Examiner, was left wondering whether he had a fake or fortune in his wallet when he found an unusual coin.

The new pound was launched in 2016 and until now no fakes have been reported.

Martin Shaw with the £1 coin (left) which is either a fake, or a misstruck coin which has reached circulation and a perfect 2016 £1 coin (right)

But Martin's coin was different to the rest of the shiny ones in his wallet.

He wrote in the Huddersfield Examiner: "From the side it looked like two coins melted together. It just didn’t ‘feel’ right and it was certainly different to the other pound coins.

"My first thought was it was a fake. But wasn’t the new pound coin supposed to be unfakeable?





"So does my mysterious coin have a hologram? That’s surely the clincher.

"Well, that’s the problem. It has the square but it’s hardly a hologram.


"Under a bright light I can see something that resembles a 1 but I can't see a £ sign, as much as I try.

"So is this a fake? If it is it’s the first one ever found, apparently."






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