On August of 2024, I encountered a UAE Dirham which is “impossible” since the currency here in my country is Philippine Peso. It was supposedly change from him/her. Has anyone encountered a situation like this?
Since the two coins are of the same size and composition and, if I'm not mistaken, a number of Philippin@s work in the UAE, this is not very surprising. In Canada, beside US coins which circulate at 1:1, it happens occasionally that the British 5p passes mistakenly as a 10¢ ("dime"). Back when we still had the 1¢ ("penny") it happened that 1¢ coins from Barbados or other Caribbean countries passed mistakenly as Canadian.
About two years ago, my son was at the till where he worked and someone passed a Mexican coin for a $2.
On August of 2024, I encountered a UAE Dirham which is “impossible” since the currency here in my country is Philippine Peso. It was supposedly change from him/her. Has anyone encountered a situation like this?
Technically you made money because a Dirham is worth just over 15.5 Pesos.
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It happens relatively often that foreign coins appear in circulation in a country where they shouldn't be.
In the US, it quite common to find Canadian change. In the Euro-zone, Thai 10 baht coins pop up sometimes instead of a €2 coin. If coins are a bit similar in size and colour, then a wrong coin is easily accepted for a right one.
There are several forum threads dedicated to the phenomenon of these ‘foreign finds’.
It happens relatively often that foreign coins appear in circulation in a country where they shouldn't be.
In the US, it quite common to find Canadian change. In the Euro-zone, Thai 10 baht coins pop up sometimes instead of a €2 coin. If coins are a bit similar in size and colour, then a wrong coin is easily accepted for a right one.
There are several forum threads dedicated to the phenomenon of these ‘foreign finds’.
Sometimes it's deliberate!
When I was in the Army in the early 80's, someone worked out that a UK 5p was the same size as a German Mark (worth about 25p) and that there were a lot of vending machines in Germany.
happens alot, americans getting canadian coins, in the UK you sometimes get 25 cent coins (from the US or even Canada) instead of a 10 pence coin. More deliberately (but with less success) some people use iraqi 250 dinar coins as £2 coins as they look similar.
I had heard back until the round pound was still In circulation, apparently a lot of Indian 5 rupee coins were passing through certain vending machines like the ticket machines at bus stops. The dimensions are almost, but not quite the same as the round pound. I wonder if there was any truth to that. Moreover the Rs5 had a security edge rather than lettered edging
£1 is about Rs100 atm. Back in the 2000s when I had first heard of it, £1 was about Rs70
In Canada in the 1970s–1990s, visitors returning from France sometimes brought back rolls of 20 centime coins —approximately 5 cents each in value— because they would normally be accepted in vending machines for quarters. It happened a few times that I got such a coin in change instead of a quarter in vending machines.
This wouldn't work now that vending machines are equipped with much more sophisticated systems of coin identification.
When I lived in Australia I sometimes got NZ 20 cents coins in change instead of Australians. First time it happened I was really surprised to get a coin with a huge Kiwi bird on it. 😅
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When I lived in Australia I sometimes got NZ 20 cents coins in change instead of Australians. First time it happened I was really surprised to get a coin with a huge Kiwi bird on it. 😅
We still get the old larger sized New Zealand coins in change here in Australia. 20, 10 & 5 cents. If you do noodling in coin rolls you will often come across one or 2 in each roll. It is only the old NZ coins though since New Zealand switched to smaller coins in 2006.
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This is interesting. I see that the Australian and NZ decimal coins to 2006 are virtually identical in their specifications (metal / diameter / weight) except the 50 cents.
So, my question is: Do you find the other country's coins in your change and are they accepted at par? In other words, if an Australian gets NZ coins in his change, will he be OK with it? If a New Zealander gets Australian coins in his change, will he be OK with it?
In Canada, US coins are also virtually identical in diameter (though not in metallic composition) and they are accepted at par: 5¢ / 10¢ / 25¢. On the northern side of the border it's a bonus since currently C $1 = US $0.72.
The NZ 5, 10 & 20c coins that find their way into Australian circulation just get accepted as normal coins. They do get accepted at par and they just get passed on. I Think the banks try to remove them from circulation though.
Dosent work the other way though since NZ changed the size of their coins. But I suspect before they did they would get Australian coins in their change too.
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The NZ 5, 10 & 20c coins that find their way into Australian circulation just get accepted as normal coins. They do get accepted at par and they just get passed on. I Think the banks try to remove them from circulation though.
Dosent work the other way though since NZ changed the size of their coins. But I suspect before they did they would get Australian coins in their change too.
Mike
This seems fine compared to the US/Canada change, since the NZ and AU coins were made with the exact dimensions as one another, let alone some made at the same mint!
Similarly I have come across several Panamanian coins in the US, and specifically at the border the small MX 50c coins as US 10c coins, the first of which like the NZ/AU situation is totally acceptable.
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The only time I received a foreign coin in change in the U.K. that was not territories was a Euro coin in place of a Pound coin last year.
Although I’ve heard and seen videos of 1 Dirham and US quarters being mixed with 10ps as well as old “chunky“ 5ps. For 1ps it’s often Romanian 10 Bani, 5 Euro cents or NZ 10 Cents. 50ps it’s Swiss 2 Francs, Gambian Dalasi or Mauritian 10 Rupees.
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Similarly I have come across several Panamanian coins in the US, and specifically at the border the small MX 50c coins as US 10c coins, the first of which like the NZ/AU situation is totally acceptable.
I guess it’s the same with Ecuadorean coins too but unlike other examples here the Balboa and Ecuadorean coins are pegged 1:1 with the US Dollar.
In the U.K. for example I have seen territories coins (Jersey, Falklands, Isle of Man, Gibraltar etc) in circulation because they have the exact dimensions as their uk counterparts and 1:1 exchange rate. Even though both currencies are legal tender in their respective territory the coins are not on the mainland however most just accept them.
This can be applied to Scottish and northern Irish notes.
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