Lavoro in un negozio a Blanchardstown. Oggi sono andato in un altro negozio dietro l’angolo per ottenere un po ‘di cambiamento e ho notato questo piccolo stronzo tra le monete dopo essere tornato. Questa è la seconda volta che è accaduto ora, la prima volta che mi sono innamorato del mio posto. Ho pensato che fosse un grazioso errore per la prima volta, ma ora sembra che alcuni stronzi vadano in giro e lo facciano apposta a causa della notevole somiglianza della moneta con i nostri 2 euro. Attento!
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di Philush
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This was really common about 15 years ago, weirdly I remembered it a few days ago – probably still have some of the feckers here from then.
Worth ~25c so if someone had a way to get them in bulk there is enough there to make it worth doing as a scam.
not to be confused with this one doing the rounds… lol
https://preview.redd.it/9bbgkmsccsue1.jpeg?width=987&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0617ad5660e4a37b0ff3feb0914f9a798b0806aa
It’s a baht?
Great for Dublin bus tbh … and few other suckers
Bulgarian 2 Lev coin is another one I’ve seen over the years. It’s worth about €1. There is another possibly Turkish I’ve seen too thats similar to the €2 coin we use.
Easy mistake to make, most cashiers wouldn’t baht an eyelid at it
My ex’s father used to go to Thailand on business and bring back a pile of these. They used to work in the cigarette machines in pubs. We made out like bandits.
The Turkish Lira and South African Rand also have coins that look like a €2 coin and have a lower face value.
This is click baht!
Huh I have one I kept from a few years ago (looks different, I think mine had a building on it?), I always assumed it was an accidental mistake rather than a scam as Irish people do often go on holidays to Thailand & if you mixed your coins in your purse, it might slip though.
Reading some of the comments, yeah I can see why it could be used as a scam.
Yeah they’ve been floating around ever since the Euro. Used to work in a shop in the early 00s and we’d get these from time to time.
lol can you actually use it in vending machines?
I remember back in the day of Pesetas that vending machines in Spain were full of 5p coins during the summer.
Came back from a Thailand summer holiday, along with half of Dublin about 15 years ago. Went into a nightclub with a handfull of them, hoping for a semi-cheap night out.
Must have broke a note later in the night as I woke up the next with more than in my pockets than I had went out with. Turns out everyone was at it…
It’s really annoying when you get a rogue coin. Got a Kruggerand once from a corner shop.
Welcome to….checks notes…2002 my friend.
Rip, it looks so similar, if I wa sin hurry I might be tricked as well, yikes
Would these work in luas ticket machines? Just curious
I still have one at home from getting stung with one of these as a two Euro change. TBF probably it’s karmic justice for people my age migrating to Germany as seasonal guest-workers and using low value Irish pence coins in phone boxes which were the same size and shape as higher value German Mark coins. 👀😬
Got a new-to-me one recently an Italian 200 lire coin passing for a 50c one. Same diameter, slightly thinner and was worth 10c
Hahaha I put one of these into a Tesco machine yesterday by accident. It didn’t work.
This is Austrian, the face is clearly a Habsburg dude.
Brought loads of these back from Thailand in about 2007. Used to use them in train stations vending machines on my way to college for a solid 3 years!
I knew a guy who did this consistently. Say he’s charged €6 for a pint, he’d hand then 20 thai baht and €2. If they called him out on it he’d apologise and say he was just back from Thailand and hadn’t emptied his wallet.
Moroccan Durhams have coins that are almost identical to both a €1 and a €2
lol I got a Bulgarian coin in blanch a couple of months ago as €2 didn’t notice it until I used the vending machine