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Morrisons bans the £2 coin from self-checkout tills in a number of its stores due to the growing number of people using foreign coins of similar size and shape
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Morrisons has announced it will not accept £2 coins at certain stores until they have updated the till technology to recognise fakes Photo: Alamy
By Miranda Prynne
9:30AM BST 18 Jun 2014
A supermarket chain has banned £2 coins from its self-service machines to prevent the growing number of people paying with similar shaped foreign change worth as little as one pence.
Morrisons has announced it will not accept the large silver and gold coins at certain stores until they have updated the till technology to recognise fakes, the Daily Mail reported.
Store bosses told the newspaper there has been a sharp increase in the number of customers disposing of unwanted foreign coins which are the same size as a £2 but are worth far less.
The Iranian 250 rial, which is worth just one pence, is commonly used in place of the £2 coin, as is the Thai ten baht, worth about 18p.
The €2 coin is another common substitute.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/retailandconsumer/10908158/2-coin-to-be-banned-from-self-checkouts-due-to-fakes.html
