let's devalue Cyprus

Max · Post by **Max** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 7:58 pm

OK, does anyone know what I'm going on about? Thought I had hit a goldmine this afternoon, but some research proved me wrong...

max

itsme · Post by **itsme** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 9:11 pm

itsme · Post by **itsme** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 9:11 pm

mattrick · Post by **mattrick** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 11:21 pm

NICOSIA, Cyprus: Riot police fired tear gas during clashes Tuesday with stone-throwing Cypriot villagers, who later blocked a main highway with burning cars to protest plans for a new landfill in their area.

Nine people, including two police officers, were hospitalized with minor injuries, a hospital official said. There were no arrests.

The clashes started as workers tried to begin construction of the new landfill near the village of Lymbia, around 20 kilometers (12 miles) south of Nicosia.

Some 500 villagers later blocked the Nicosia to Larnaca highway. Protesters used tractors to push old cars off an overpass onto the highway, before setting them on fire, while television footage showed the road strewn with stones.

Villagers claim the new landfill will pose a health hazard.

Max · Post by **Max** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 3:10 am

hmm, not really waht i meant. the 50 cents Cyprus coin is exactly the same as the UK 50p...

max

toothless11 · Post by **toothless11** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 8:13 am

I guess it doesn't work then max?

harry 3 · Post by **harry 3** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 10:38 am

One lilangeli very similar to £1 coin. Equivalent to 7p each.

Back in the good old bad old days you could get a ten pence piece and wrap some surgical tape around the edge and some coin ops would accept them as 50p's. Obviously technology has progressed a little.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Coin ... ziland.JPG

jeffvickers · Post by **jeffvickers** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 10:55 am

machines round here do not take IOM £1 coins.

harry 3 · Post by **harry 3** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 11:08 am

I believe since 1982 or so there have been TWENTY FIVE different types of £1 coins in circulation. No wonder the mechs can't handle them all. If you set the tolerance too high then you all sorts of forgeries, too low then half are rejected. Nothing worse when your coins are not accepted.

Max · Post by **Max** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 12:40 pm

well i checked a few websites, an dunfortunately the 50 cents from Cyrpus is currently worth about 57p, so its not worth it...hence, lets devalue Cyprus!

max

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 1:29 pm

if i had a shit sandwich i'm not sure i'd take any bite out of it at all.

mattrick · Post by **mattrick** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 1:41 pm

I dropped a jp in leeds train station once and ten of the "pounds" were 2 polish something or others glued together, the weight and size was exactly the same as the machine took them straight back in!

gambogaz1 · Post by **gambogaz1** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 1:52 pm

mattrick wrote:I dropped a jp in leeds train station once and ten of the "pounds" were 2 polish something or others glued together, the weight and size was exactly the same as the machine took them straight back in!

I've had that too. Got be a good 5 or 6 years ago now. took a load of cash out a machine and arounf £15 was in them coins where you could see it was 2 glues together. Only worked on select machines as i couldn't get rid of them that night on anything else. Then stupidly used them in my local. Struggled to keep a straight face a week later when the landlord was moaning that someone had been using dodgy coins in his machine

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Scott · Post by **Scott** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 1:07 am

same here, got paid with 2 foreign coins stuck together with blue-tack years ago, can't remember which country??? also been paid with a washer that was exactly the same size as a pound coin.

mr cheese · Post by **mr cheese** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 11:17 am

If memory seves me correct they was 2 German Pfenigs ( not sure if this is the correct spelling,but you get the picture)