Thread: Insider tip: 2CHF = 0.25 GTQ, down from 16.26 GTQ

Quote: krlock3 Dodger by name.... Dodger by nature ;-) Well, that is one reason why I've had this name for many years...

Quote: bigblue2 would that have been mars? 'twas indeed.

Hi Dodger, I'll state the obvious. Be careful how you word such "tips". As read you are suggesting that people go and fill swiss vending machines with non-swiss currency of lesser value and effectively steal from the vending company. Odds are by even suggesting it, you have committed some sort of misdemeanor. I am sure what you wanted to do was simply point out the remarkable similarity in weight and size between the two...

Dodger by name.... Dodger by nature ;-)

Quote: cyrus I once worked in the lab for a company that made the coin acceptors. They're very sophisticated nowadays. This company had a room full of every single coin from every country in the world, and also had common blanks and a wide variety of fake coins, it's pretty rare this sort of thing happens nowadays. All sorts of things are tested, weight and size are the obvious ones, but also conductivity and other measures. But...

I also find the size of .50 rappen and Australian .05c eerily similar.

Haha, where I used to live in Cornwall there were thousands of home made £1 coins found in vending and gambling machines. Some people has too much time on their hands :-)

You're not in Guatemala now, Dr. Ropata! Quote: Dodger The other day, here in Basel, the cashier refused to accept the cash that I gave her for lunch. And, to my surprise, with good reason. A coin that I got as change from a drink machine earlier that day was not a 2 Franc coin as it should have been, but a 25 Centavo coin from Guatemala. The two coins are roughly the same size, thickness and weight, so a vending machine can't tell...