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Fake €2 Coin

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  • 17-10-2010 4:22pm
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    RobitTV
    Registered Users Posts: 4,517 ✭✭✭


    Feckers at Lidl gave me a Fake Turkish 2 Euro coin. Appearntly its only worth 51 Cent in turkey. Cant believe i didnt notice it. :mad: anyone Else get this coin before?


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    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    There's a few around like that. I think Greece had similar at one stage before the Euro came in.
    They pop up occasionally.


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    invaderjim
    Registered Users Posts: 82 ✭✭invaderjim


    I got given a similar one in the Point, a thai coin. Serves me right for buying drink in the point I suppose.


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    AntiRip
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,244 ✭✭✭AntiRip


    RobitTV wrote: »
    Feckers at Lidl gave me a Fake Turkish 2 Euro coin. Appearntly its only worth 51 Cent in turkey. Cant believe i didnt notice it. :mad: anyone Else get this coin before?


    You can always use it in the cig machine....if you smoked of course


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    Shryke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,199 ✭✭✭Shryke


    Don't blame the staff in Lidl. If you didn't notice the cashier definitely didn't I'd say. Oh and sickened! :p


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    honru
    Registered Users Posts: 4,585 ✭✭✭honru


    I'm always paranoid now that I'm going to be given a turkey.


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    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,556 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    apparently the thai ones work in vending machines, so if you get a few save them for cigarette machines or sell them at a euro a pop to your smoker friends


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    Dark_by_Dezign
    Closed Accounts Posts: 111 ✭✭Dark_by_Dezign


    The government should use them to bail out the country , be quarter of the price :pac:


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    policarp
    Registered Users Posts: 3,661 ✭✭✭policarp


    At least it wasn't a fake €20 €uro coin...


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    Celly Smunt
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,464 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    how can a legal tendered coin be fake? even if it is out of a different country


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    Ghost Train
    Registered Users Posts: 30,060 ✭✭✭✭Ghost Train


    pmcmahon wrote: »
    how can a legal tendered coin be fake? even if it is out of a different country

    maybe there's chocolate inside


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    Kinky Slinky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 432 ✭✭Kinky Slinky


    pmcmahon wrote: »
    how can a legal tendered coin be fake? even if it is out of a different country
    well it's a "fake euro", best way to get rid of them is at a busy takeaway at 2am


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    obliviousgrudge
    Registered Users Posts: 703 ✭✭✭obliviousgrudge


    Yeah, I've seen a fake 2Euro coin, was meant to look like one and all.

    And my friend got one, just like a 2€ coin, it was from Malhi or some country like that, looked the exact same


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    **Timbuk2**
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 7,395 Mod ✭✭✭✭**Timbuk2**


    Just throw it in the box on the Dublin Bus, not a huge deal. Happens us all from time to time!


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    SportsGreatest
    Closed Accounts Posts: 164 ✭✭SportsGreatest


    I got a fake €50 note off SuperValu last week. I tried to spend it in Maxol but they wouldn't take it. Thankfully, SuperValu exchanged it for me.


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    3hn2givr7mx1sc
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    Just go on holidays to Turkey - problem solved.:)


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    RoyalMarine
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    ahh i remember coming home from thailand very very well...

    http://ambrand.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/thaieuro.png


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    Dan Chipowski
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,072 ✭✭✭Dan Chipowski


    The Bulgarian Lev looks a lot like a 1 euro coin, i've got 3 or 4 of them in change over the past year or so.

    http://www.coinauthentication.co.uk/images/Bulgarian1lev.jpg


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    WindSock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,239 ✭✭✭✭WindSock


    RoyalMarineComm wrote: »
    ahh i remember coming home from thailand very very well...

    http://ambrand.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/thaieuro.png

    The schlong on the Euro one looks better though.


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    Pauleta
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    I got stung with that Thai coin and went back to the shop to try and spent it and they caught me :(


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    Celly Smunt
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    Kinky Slinky wrote: »
    well it's a "fake euro", best way to get rid of them is at a busy takeaway at 2am

    it is clearly not a fake euro.


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    policarp
    Registered Users Posts: 3,661 ✭✭✭policarp


    pmcmahon wrote: »
    it is clearly not a fake euro.

    It might not be a fake € but it's not a €uro coin.


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    Terry
    Registered Users Posts: 26,061 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    I was stung with a fake one about a year ago.
    Got it in change from the supermarket and spent it in the (not attached, but owned by the same people) off licence.

    A few days later one of the young fells who works in the off licence berated me over it.
    I apologised and offered to pay the difference. He said no, and then sneered at me. He's a ****ing prick though. The same prick screwed my sane lodger out of €10 in change too.

    I honestly didn't notice the difference. Can't remember where the coin was from though.


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    dunsandin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 879 ✭✭✭dunsandin


    Terry wrote: »
    I was stung with a fake one about a year ago.
    Got it in change from the supermarket and spent it in the (not attached, but owned by the same people) off licence.

    A few days later one of the young fells who works in the off licence berated me over it.
    I apologised and offered to pay the difference. He said no, and then sneered at me. He's a ****ing prick though. The same prick screwed my sane lodger out of €10 in change too.

    I honestly didn't notice the difference. Can't remember where the coin was from though.
    You should have whipped a half nelson on his a55 and made HIM apologise. What the hell would John Cena have done?


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    BrokenArrows
    Registered Users Posts: 7,500 ✭✭✭BrokenArrows


    I used to work in a bank and the amount of fake notes being deposited through the quick deposit envelopes is huge.

    easily clock up £500 a day, sometimes alot more in 50's and 20's.

    most of the deposits from businesses.
    Some of the notes looked like they had been made with a 5 year old with some crayons. I don't know how cashiers missed that they were fake.


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    CorkMan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,005 ✭✭✭CorkMan


    RobitTV wrote: »
    Feckers at Lidl gave me a Fake Turkish 2 Euro coin. Appearntly its only worth 51 Cent in turkey. Cant believe i didnt notice it. :mad: anyone Else get this coin before?

    I have a fake one too, it has Eamon Dunphy on the back.


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    wmpdd3
    Registered Users Posts: 9,624 ✭✭✭wmpdd3


    SportsGreatest wrote: »
    I got a fake €50 note off SuperValu last week. I tried to spend it in Maxol but they wouldn't take it. Thankfully, SuperValu exchanged it for me.

    So you went back to them and told them you got a fake €50 and they believed you and swapped it for a real 1?

    wow never seen that happen before.


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    Terry
    Registered Users Posts: 26,061 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    dunsandin wrote: »
    You should have whipped a half nelson on his a55 and made HIM apologise. What the hell would John Cena have done?
    Cena would have made a film out of it, informed us of the presence of the champ, and then appeared himself without a championship belt.

    The writers would then try to turn him heel, all the while completely ignoring the fact that nobody cares about him and that the kids actually love the wannabe Stone Cold Steve Austin persona of Randy Orton.

    The writers would then continue to piss on 79% or their audience by giving us an inferior and PG product.

    People named "Vince" should not be allowed to be involved in the PW industry. That comment will be lost on most people.

    Anyway, here's Vince McMahon with collagen lips:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lz_fm3pYITs


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    friendface
    Registered Users Posts: 812 ✭✭✭friendface


    I warned you this would happen.. but you didn't listen! YOU DIDN'T LIIIIISSSSSTEN!


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    #30
    [Deleted User]
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    I came across one of these in work one day when counting the float at the end of the day. I left it out and informed the boss the next day, somebody obviously paid for something with it.


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    dunsandin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 879 ✭✭✭dunsandin


    Karsini wrote: »
    I came across one of these in work one day when counting the float at the end of the day. I left it out and informed the boss the next day, somebody obviously paid for something with it.
    People are unreal, aren't they. Tisk,tisk.
    Anyone know where to get a steady supply of them?Turkey probably. Must have a word with Dustin.


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