gerard 6 Posted September 3, 2010 Share Posted September 3, 2010 Paid for a taxi with one and the cabby started giving me change for a 5000. Link to post Share on other sites
gerard 6 Posted September 3, 2010 Share Posted September 3, 2010 I threw the money back at him and said "That was 2000, not 5000. Stupid cabby!!" Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted September 3, 2010 Share Posted September 3, 2010 I was in the cab in Tokyo. He was an old bastard ready to sleep, but in his EXCELLENT English he was saying it was his hobby to drive the cab. He did it to fill the time. ace, I thought he wouldn't charge. No chance. Link to post Share on other sites
pie-eater 207 Posted September 4, 2010 Share Posted September 4, 2010 He should have paid you for giving him the chance to do his hobby. Link to post Share on other sites
big-will 7 Posted September 5, 2010 Share Posted September 5, 2010 I think I heard somewhere that there was a really limited number of these 2000 yen notes issues so there are very few out there. I have only ever had one. I converted it into beer. Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted September 5, 2010 Share Posted September 5, 2010 used to get them a lot out of 7-11 ATM's, but haven't seen them in a while Link to post Share on other sites
SpaceAgeMonkey 0 Posted September 6, 2010 Share Posted September 6, 2010 Quote: The 2000 yen note was first issued on July 19, 2000 to commemorate the 26th G8 summit in Okinawa and the millennium year as well. Pictured on the front of the note is Shureimon, a famous gate in Naha, Okinawa near the site of the summit. The other side features a scene from the The Tale of Genji and the author Murasaki Shikibu on the lower right corner. The motif of the scene was taken from the 12th century illuminated handscrolls of the novel kept at the Tokugawa Art Museum in Nagoya. These notes are rare in the market, but at banks they are readily available. Many Japanese consider the 2000 yen note a novelty as it is the only Japanese denomination in the factor of 2. To promote the circulation of the notes, some companies had started paying wages in them. The series D is the first to display the EURion constellation. Never seen one out wild. Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted September 6, 2010 Share Posted September 6, 2010 much like the 2 pound coin. Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted September 6, 2010 Share Posted September 6, 2010 'cept the coin is made of metal and commemorates nothing and the currency is sterling for use in the UK. Link to post Share on other sites
pie-eater 207 Posted September 6, 2010 Share Posted September 6, 2010 Although 2 pound coins are actually fairly common in the UK. Well, I used a fair few over summer anyway. Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted September 6, 2010 Share Posted September 6, 2010 used to keep everyone of those I got in a jar. Then one time, when it was pretty full, it went missing. A few days later, my sis called me and asked "did you lose a jar full of 2 pound coins? Well, we found the jar" Link to post Share on other sites
BagOfCrisps 24 Posted September 6, 2010 Share Posted September 6, 2010 There seem to be a fair few these days. Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted September 6, 2010 Share Posted September 6, 2010 5 pound coins are still minted for commemorative purposes Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted September 7, 2010 Share Posted September 7, 2010 do they have Scootish 2 pound coins? Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted September 7, 2010 Share Posted September 7, 2010 Don't know if the 2 pound coins come in different designs or not. The 1 pound coins do, but that is all thats different. Link to post Share on other sites
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