Thailand's 10 baht coins, worth 0.26€ looks like 2€ coin.

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I got one of these in my change over the Easter. They look remarkably like €2 coin.

What should I do with it?

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Buy some cigarettes with it (from a vending machine).
 
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Do you think they would work in Pay & Display units ?
 
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Whenever I've been given a fake note or coin I use them in taxis.
 
fake coin

When the euro was first introduced, the baht worked in most electronic coin acceptors in casinos, ciggie machines etc, which then had to be reprogrammed not to accept them.

Chances are though, you'll still find a machine to take it.

But that'd be illegal, so I wouldn't recommend it. :)
 
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Thailand's 10 baht coins, worth 0.26€ looks like 2€ coin.

I got one of these in my change over the Easter. They look remarkably like €2 coin.

What should I do with it?
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Holy foreign coins! In the baht phone or in the meter when parking the baht mobile perhaps?
 
bad coins

There's an Italian one exactly like the €2 as well.
I have been given them both. I assume that slot machines etc can judge coins by their weight but maybe not. I think maybe there may also be a dutch coin pretty similar to the €2 as well but at least with the Italian one etc they are out of date and not being minted but the Thai coin is probably being minted by the million so theres a real chance we'll see a lot more of them in the future.
 
coin acceptors

The old fashioned coin acceptors in slot machines judged coins by weight, whereas the new coin 'mechs' check weight and metallic content — they actually have that coin inside the mech for a comparison. They're quite difficult to fool ...... unless you have the machine on a new deep pile carpet full of static.
 
coins... and the honest irish

It reminds me of the old days ( twenty two years ago etc) when all the Irish students who went to Germany for the summer work used to take a big bag of Irish 5p pieces, which used to work as german marks or something in the phones, for those long calls home.
 
pennies

don't forget about the old copper pennies ... they were the exact same size as a pound coin, three of which went nicely into the old wooden fag machines (with the pull-out drawers), and you got your 60p change taped to the back of the box .... sweet!
 
Re: pennies

Thanks for all the suggestions. I think I'll just frame it.

Has any one seen a little copper coin coin from west africa which looks like a 5c coin? I think its from Benin.

ajapale
 
Re: pennies

I saw a Polish coin that looked very like a €0.05 coin in my local recently.
 
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