The coin looking like a 2 euro... but is not not!
Today, I received from a vending machine a coin that, at a first look, resembles a 2 Euro but definitely is not, and, as you can imagine it is also less worth compared to a 2 Euro (I suspect this was the all point of inserting it into the vending machine!) Anyway, I made some digging over the World Wide Web and I learned something interesting that's worth to write about. First of all: the coin looking like a 2 Euro is a 10-baht coin (the Thai currency) and, as you can see, the similarity is pretty strong... (image receiving it as change with other coins!) (For the comparison 2 Euro vs 10 baht, I used the German 2 Euro, showing the German coat of arms, i.e. the German eagle) The similarity is deeper that you can suspect ... Value 2 euro 10 baht Mass 8.4 g ...