'2 euro coins'

One More Toy · 04-08-2015 01:59PM #1

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 · 04-08-2015 02:02PM

Good times.....

Good times.

LDN_Irish · 04-08-2015 02:03PM

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

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

Hande hoche! · 04-08-2015 02:06PM

Have gotten Turkish coins in the past.

snubbleste · 04-08-2015 02:08PM

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 · 04-08-2015 02:08PM

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 · 04-08-2015 02:09PM

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 · 04-08-2015 02:10PM

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 · 04-08-2015 02:12PM

Cashier number 4 please!

Pinch Flat · 04-08-2015 02:13PM

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 · 04-08-2015 02:15PM

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 · 04-08-2015 02:17PM

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 · 04-08-2015 02:41PM

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 · 04-08-2015 02:50PM

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 · 04-08-2015 03:01PM

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 · 04-08-2015 03:05PM

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 · 04-08-2015 03:07PM

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 · 04-08-2015 03:08PM

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 · 04-08-2015 03:09PM

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 · 04-08-2015 03:37PM

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 · 04-08-2015 04:20PM

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 · 04-08-2015 04:34PM

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 · 04-08-2015 04:35PM

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 · 04-08-2015 04:42PM

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 · 04-08-2015 04:47PM

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 · 04-08-2015 05:47PM

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 · 04-08-2015 05:54PM

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 · 04-08-2015 06:06PM

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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Kev_2012 · 04-08-2015 07:38PM

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

'2 euro coins'

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