Did you know that it’s possible to fool Norwegian vending machines by using a 10 SYP Coin which is 18 times less the value of ‘the identical’ 20 NOK Coin
The shape of the 10 Syrian pound coin has been found to so resemble the 20 Norwegian krone coin that it can fool vending machines, coins-to-cash machines, arcade machines, and any other coin-operated, automated service machine in the country. While hardly similar to the naked eye, machines are unable to tell the coins apart due to an almost identical weight and size.
As of February 20, 2013, ten Syrian pounds converts to 0.7865 Norwegian kroner. 20 NOK is almost 25.43 times the value of the Syrian coin. While not easy to find in Norway, the Syrian coins are still used in automated machines there with such frequency that Posten Norge, the Norwegian postal service, decided to close many of their coins-to-cash machines on February 18, 2006, with plans to develop a system able to differentiate between the two coins. In the summer of 2005, a Norwegian man was sentenced to 30 days, suspended, for having used Syrian coins in arcade machines in the municipality
It's possible to fool Norwegian vending machines by using a 10 SYP Coin which is 18 times less the value of 'the identical' 20 NOK Coin
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