'2 euro coins'

One More Toy

Just back from Tesco, tried to pay at the self service but it rejected a coin, thought it was a two euro but appears middle eastern with Arabic writinf

Well balls

BoJack Horseman

Good times.....

Good times.

LDN_Irish

"We getting Arab money! We getting Arab money!"

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bcuAw77J8_Y

Hande hoche!

Have gotten Turkish coins in the past.

snubbleste

One More Toy wrote: »

Just back from Tesco, tried to pay at the self service but it rejected a coin, thought it was a two euro but appears middle eastern with Arabic writinf
Well balls

unexpected item in the bagging area

Samaris

One More Toy wrote: »

Just back from Tesco, tried to pay at the self service but it rejected a coin, thought it was a two euro but appears middle eastern with Arabic writinf

Well balls

I've gotten caught with those too. I think there's a Turkish coin that looks much like the E2.

Ah, here we go;

http://www.askaboutmoney.com/threads/thailands-10-baht-coins-worth-0-26%E2%82%AC-looks-like-2%E2%82%AC-coin.2168/

http://www.toytowngermany.com/forum/topic/27456-foreign-coins-that-look-like-a-euro-coin/

Not convinced by the second one, but the first one is very alike.

iopener

2 pence sterling coins fit the trolley coin lock instead of a €2 coin. Myself and the wife got caught out with this by a aul fella in dundalk hanging around the trolley bay asking if we could bring back his trolley so I gave him the €2 and discovered the 2p in the lock ,crafty fecker.

One More Toy

Samaris wrote: »

I've gotten caught with those too. I think there's a Turkish coin that looks much like the E2.

Ah, here we go;

http://www.askaboutmoney.com/threads/thailands-10-baht-coins-worth-0-26%E2%82%AC-looks-like-2%E2%82%AC-coin.2168/

http://www.toytowngermany.com/forum/topic/27456-foreign-coins-that-look-like-a-euro-coin/

Not convinced by the second one, but the first one is very alike.

Thai Baht, well bugger, worth 10% of a real 2 euro coin

Ruu

Cashier number 4 please!

Pinch Flat

I got one recently in change in Dublin - turns out it's a Moroccan 5 dirham coin. I was going to put it up on eBay for a tenner - bound to be some clown out there that'll buy it.

http://www.wbcc.fsnet.co.uk/af-mor.htm

BetterThanThou

One More Toy wrote: »

Just back from Tesco, tried to pay at the self service but it rejected a coin, thought it was a two euro but appears middle eastern with Arabic writinf

Well balls

Came across a few of these in change, it's the worst when you try pay with them and someone calls you out on it.

corner of hells

Pinch Flat wrote: »

I got once recently in change in Dublin - turns out it's a Moroccan 5 dirham coin. I was going to put it up on eBay for a tenner - bound to be some clown out there that'll buy it.

http://www.wbcc.fsnet.co.uk/af-mor.htm

Il give you €12 for it. Send me your bank details.

Prince Akimwanda.
Lagos Road.
Lagos.

TheLastMohican

corner of hells wrote: »

Il give you €12 for it. Send me your bank details.

Prince Akimwanda.
Lagos Road.
Lagos.

I can vouch for Prince Akimwanda's character. Salt of the earth type of geeza. He recently contacted me by eMail and told me that my name was given to him in a dream. Lots of wonga coming my way. He just asked for my bank details. When I told him that I was only barely in the black, he said "No problem". But to show my sincerity and prove that I wasn't going to scam him he asked for a returnable deposit of E500. So I went into my holiday fund and wired it. Am looking at DoneDeal now in the hope of buying a Merc after the first E50k drops into my account. By the way I'm not supposed to tell anyone.

I now know that "God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform", Cowper.

corner of hells

TheLastMohican wrote: »

I can vouch for Prince Akimwanda's character. Salt of the earth type of geeza. He recently contacted me by eMail and told me that my name was given to him in a dream. Lots of wonga coming my way. He just asked for my bank details. When I told him that I was only barely in the black, he said "No problem". But to show my sincerity and prove that I wasn't going to scam him he asked for a returnable deposit of E500. So I went into my holiday fund and wired it. Am looking at DoneDeal now in the hope of buying a Merc after the first E50k drops into my account. By the way I'm not supposed to tell anyone.

I now know that "God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform", Cowper.

I , too , can vouch for Prince Akimwandas character.That 5millionnismonnits way too you my brother.Just have patience.
Blessings.

TheLastMohican

corner of hells wrote: »

I , too , can vouch for Prince Akimwandas character.That 5millionnismonnits way too you my brother.Just have patience.
Blessings.

הַלְּלוּיָהּ


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Mint Sauce

Have got the odd 1p (punts) and one 1/2p (stg) in my change, similar size to the 2c and 1c. Not sure who was benifiting there.

Hammer89

I got an English 10p back from pitch and putt yesterday. I didn't mind until I realised your man probably thought it was €2 - you know, because it's silver - and now I feel a little robbed.

bucketybuck

Forget the foreign money, those Tesco self service tills won't accept the genuine €2 coins either. Sometimes you get lucky but again and again I've had them just drop through into the rejected tray. Its a real pain in the ass.

razorblunt

Ah good times bringing back a load of escudos from Portugal in the early 00's, copped that they looked similar to the euro coins so handily used them for the bus for a fortnight.

Pinch Flat

razorblunt wrote: »

Ah good times bringing back a load of escudos from Portugal in the early 00's, copped that they looked similar to the euro coins so handily used them for the bus for a fortnight.

I'm showing my age now, but anyone that went to do summer work in Germany in the early 90s made sure they had bags and bags of 5p coins - same size as the Deutsch Mark which was worth about 35p. So basically any dispensing machine that took a mark - beer, fags, chocolate, pay phones was fair game.

If my memory serves me correctly, it became a bit of an international incident whereby the peeved off German government returned about £5m worth of 5p coins to Ireland and demanded payment.

razorblunt

Pinch Flat wrote: »

I'm showing my age now, but anyone that went to do summer work in Germany in the early 90s made sure they had bags and bags of 5p coins - same size as the Deutsch Mark which was worth about 35p. So basically any dispensing machine that took a mark - beer, fags, chocolate, pay phones was fair game.

If my memory serves me correctly, it became a bit of an international incident whereby the peeved off German government returned about £5m worth of 5p coins to Ireland and demanded payment.

The Fuchers were even at it back then.

NachoBusiness

One More Toy wrote: »

Well balls

Which, as irony would have it, is precisely what needs to be looked out for in an effort to make you have been given a €2 coin and not another currency.

https://twitter.com/MrNachoBusiness/status/628589689184718849

Red Kev

Pinch Flat wrote: »

If my memory serves me correctly, it became a bit of an international incident whereby the peeved off German government returned about £5m worth of 5p coins to Ireland and demanded payment.

The last bit was an urban myth I think. The 5p is the size and weight of the shilling which is from 1816. The 1 DM coin started in 1948, so it was up to the Germans to produce a coin of a different weight or size to another currency which they failed to do.

Incidentally in the early 90's it was impossible to use DM 1 coins in Berlin as they were the same as some other coin which was virtually worthless, IIRC it was a 5 zloty coin (old zloty) or something.

Turtyturd

Have stopped using Tesco's self service machines just for the way they give you back your change.

Something comes to 99 cent and you pay for it with a 2 euro coin you'd expect your change back as a 1 euro coin and 1 cent coin, but not with Tesco's machines. Have a 20 cent coin, a couple of 10's, a five, a 2, and the rest in 1 f*cking cent coins.

pickarooney

Turtyturd wrote: »

Have stopped using Tesco's self service machines just for the way they give you back your change.

Something comes to 99 cent and you pay for it with a 2 euro coin you'd expect your change back as a 1 euro coin and 1 cent coin, but not with Tesco's machines. Have a 20 cent coin, a couple of 10's, a five, a 2, and the rest in 1 f*cking cent coins.

Good lad, now the machines are freed up for normal people who use a card.

foggy_lad

Turtyturd wrote: »

Have stopped using Tesco's self service machines just for the way they give you back your change.

Something comes to 99 cent and you pay for it with a 2 euro coin you'd expect your change back as a 1 euro coin and 1 cent coin, but not with Tesco's machines. Have a 20 cent coin, a couple of 10's, a five, a 2, and the rest in 1 f*cking cent coins.

call over a member o staff and tell them you want proper change, create a scene and block up the self service area till they capitulate:D

seamus

foggy_lad wrote: »

call over a member o staff and tell them you want proper change, create a scene and block up the self service area till they capitulate:D

Best of luck finding a member of staff at the Tesco self service checkouts.

jimmy5694

One More Toy wrote: »

Just back from Tesco, tried to pay at the self service but it rejected a coin, thought it was a two euro but appears middle eastern with Arabic writinf

Well balls

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Your ****ed lad

Kev_2012

5 pesos in Mexico looks fair like a 2 euro coin too

http://assets.catawiki.nl/assets/2011/3/18/4/2/f/42f2b580-33c8-012e-96f6-0050569439b1.jpg