2008 Menai Bridge one pound coin

Hi - I am new to collecting/selling - I have tried to look up about this particular coin but can't find any info on it and wonder if someone could help - I have a 1 one pound Menai Bridge coin dated 2008 - all my other Menai Bridge coins (3) and ones one the web are dated 2005 - I have attached 2 pictures - one one on the left is the 2008 one in both pictures - looking at the coins side by side it looks different???

There is a gold version dated 2008
so maybe a fake?

When it comes to 1£ coins ... it's probably a forgery

Definitely a fake. Poor design, wrong reverse, and the edge is
usually the easiest way to tell as most are badly done.



I have that £1 coin dated 1997 which is ...
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces1397.html
with three lions on reverse; but no, mine has an oak tree (from 1987 or 1992).
So it is also a fake. Also the portrait on mine looks like it has been re-drawn.

Then also the alignment is sometimes wrong ...

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces1394.html
this time 2002 has correct reverse, but that reverse is upside-down.

What about the weight of fake pound coins? Is it the same like the good one?

Yes, same weight. That is probably the main aim of the forgers - so machinery knows it
is the same weight and so it accepts them. So for the forgers the appearance is secondary.

I have a 2008 and a 2005 coin and they are slightly different. If the 2008 is a forgery it seems very strange that a forger would go to all that trouble and put the wrong date on. I too would like to get some info on the 2008 Menai Bridge coin. Mine has better detail than the one in the photo though there slight differences to the 2005. The 2008 doesn't have a row of dots round the edge of the head side and the edges are slightly different. mumangela

http://www.thefakepoundcoindatabase.co.uk/MENAI.html

When the average person received the now defunct £1 coins in their change, they never took any notice of how it looked, or compared it to any other coin. This process also happened when the coins were spent. No one ever checked details of every £1 coin that was spent.
This is why it is believed that 1 in every 30 coins were fake. So, after 34 years, the old £1 coin has been removed from circulation and can no longer be spent.
There were many different types of fakes, such as wrong dates, orientation problems etc.
Again, due to the untrained eye, nobody would notice anything wrong.
I think it became a fakers paradise.
I have a couple myself, and keep them for posterity.
I would really be interested to know if any other single type of coin has been faked in such numbers

Perhaps, by putting the wrong date on the coin, the counterfeiters could claim, if caught, that they didn't exactly copy anything.