Maltese coins found in circulation OUTSIDE Malta

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Post by Matesi1976 » Sat Jul 19, 2008 11:10 am

A few days ago I got my first :flag-mt: Maltese euro coins, found at the restaurant at my workplace in :flag-gr: Kallithea, Attica, Greece. Immediately after the first coin, a considerable number of them started appearing. I was surprised at this sudden (but most welcome!) influx of Maltese euro coins and was informed that the source of all of them was one particular colleague who had just returned from vacation in Malta, with his pockets full of Maltese coins. :D

Eventually, I got hold of the Maltese 10 cent, 50 cent and 2 euro coins, which have been added to my collection, thanks to that colleague. Note here that I received them as change on circulation, while that colleague had already spent all his Maltese coins in the restaurant before I found out he had those.
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Post by Kyypupu » Sun Jul 20, 2008 8:21 am

Yesterday I went to buy food from the nearby grocerystore and got :flag-mt: 10cents in exchange :D . I didn´t even notice it until few hours later, when I was paying my ticket at the trainstation, and fortunately didn´t spent it accidently... All this happened in Tampere, Finland.
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Post by melitikus » Sun Jul 20, 2008 8:44 am

it is nice to seee that the Maltese euro coins are 'loitering' all around the eurozone :D
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Post by Ewri » Sun Jul 20, 2008 5:16 pm

melitikus wrote:it is nice to seee that the Maltese euro coins are 'loitering' all around the eurozone :D
and it's nicer to see the faces of foreigners when they realise that they were just given a maltese coin as change.

Ask the woman from Porta Angelica in Rome!!.
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Post by FCB4EVER » Tue Jul 29, 2008 3:17 pm

yesterday I got a maltese 5 eurocent as change in :flag-be: kalmthout, my first maltese coin ever 8)
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Post by spikyxpto » Mon Aug 04, 2008 12:42 pm

0.20€ found in :flag-pt: Braga
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Post by Ewri » Tue Aug 05, 2008 11:47 pm

spent some maltese euro coins in Budapest.
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Post by Poutsi » Thu Aug 21, 2008 9:07 pm

I just got a Maltese 2 € coin from a shop here in Dresden. So new and shiny that the salesperson stopped to look at it before giving it to me! 8)
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Post by SENGA1 » Sat Aug 23, 2008 8:02 pm

J found one 2 eur coin in Maribor-Slovenija two days ago :D :D :D
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Re: Maltese coins found in circulation OUTSIDE of Malta

Post by bhoeyb » Tue Sep 02, 2008 4:57 pm

I've received my first Maltese 1€ coin at the Smoothies Bar nearby Hotel Slon in Ljubljana - Slovenia on monday after EBTM08 :) . It looks quite used and not shiny at all.
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Re: Maltese coins found in circulation OUTSIDE of Malta

Post by Sharatan3 » Sat Sep 06, 2008 3:21 pm

I'll be in italy (Milan and Tuscany areas) in less then a month and I'm taking all my maltese coins to spend them there. :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
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Re: Maltese coins found in circulation OUTSIDE of Malta

Post by Phaseolus » Sat Sep 06, 2008 9:46 pm

Sharatan3 wrote:I'll be in italy (Milan and Tuscany areas) in less then a month and I'm taking all my maltese coins to spend them there. :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
In the week between 23/09 and 26/09, I'll be (together with Asiamaniac) in Milan, then in Croatia. :wink:
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Maltese coins found in circulation OUTSIDE of Malta

Post by pierre O. » Thu Sep 11, 2008 8:51 pm

Hello,

first maltese 5c coin found in a village nearby here in Normandy !!
it was in July.

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Re: Maltese coins found in circulation OUTSIDE of Malta

Post by aplfi » Sun Oct 05, 2008 9:27 am

I got few weeks ago 20c from Relay shop in Frankfurt am Main Airport.
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Re: Maltese coins found in circulation OUTSIDE of Malta

Post by Sharatan3 » Tue Oct 14, 2008 9:51 pm

Two weeks ago I happened to find my very first maltese coin, outside of Malta that is. Given to me as change for buying some fruit. It's a €1 and was the ONLY coin left in the cashtill of a fruit vendor just next to the Pisa leaning tower.
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