I've been robbed!

[34064 Fighter Command]

Actually it's not quite as bad as it sounds. Someone has slipped me a Hungarian 10 Florint coin into my change over the weekend - looks very similar to a 10p coin if you weren't checking your change religiously.

Unfortunately it's not even worth 3p at current exchange rates.

Anyone else noticed strange foreign coinage in their change recently? The Euro seems to have stopped most of this happening, as it's much more widely accepted.

 

[NickBHAFC18]

Nope, but I have had a few fake coins recently, particularly 10p's and 1p's.

 

[Seagull27]

I was given an American quarter instead of a 10p the other day

 

[Muzzy]

Nope, but I have had a few fake coins recently, particularly 10p's and 1p's.

Why the f*** would someone make fakes of those?

 

[Hillian1]

What pisses me off is when you try to pay for a pint and the bar staff refuse a coin as being foreign when you must have got the coin from said establishment because you only had notes when you walked in.

 

[Questions]

I remember a few years back when that Irish counterfeiting team where about and filing 50p coins down to make fake 10p ones for the vending machines. That was annoying.

 

[34064 Fighter Command]

The reason small denomination coins ARE worth forging is because of the prevelance of automatic machines for paying these days. Wouldn't surprise me if they were being used to feed parking meters, pay and display machines, train ticket machines and the like.

In the old days it was only really possible to get rid of dodgy coins in the slot machines on the Palace pier.

I'm always a bit worried when I use high denomination Euro notes, simply because each country can still use it's own design, and knowing a forged one from a genuine one isn't always that obvious.

When I worked behind the bar at Gatwick Airport we were regularly tendered Scottish and Channel Islands notes, the Scottish ones we could always accept but the Channel Islands ones we had to show to a manager before accepting.

There was also the American who swore blind to my manager that I had short changed him and he had given me a fifty pound note (which we weren't allowed to accept without checking very carefully due to the number of forgeries in circulation). The only way to prove it or otherwise was to cash my till up there and then. Turned out that after having cashed it up, he rifled through his pockets and found the missing notes that he claimed I hadn't given him.

I then had to spend the rest of my shift as potman and dishwasher............. bastard.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

I was given a $1 East Caribbean States 1989 coin the other day.

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I end up with some Scottish notes now and again and it is a problem shifting them. A lot of places take one look and refuse it. Odd.