PRISTINA (Reuters) - At a cafe in Kosovo's capital Pristina, staff have given up checking whether the 2-euro coins people use to pay are genuine, as such a high proportion are fake and as the high ...

Police have discovered that an illegal mint in China is now able to counterfeit, or forge, both the €2 euro coin and the £2 coin. While this isn't actually desirable it's also not a great problem that ...

Overall, the level of counterfeit coins remains extremely low, proving that the combined efforts of the Commission/OLAF (the EU's anti-fraud office), other EU institutions and the Member States, are ...

If you have a fake euro coin in your pocket, you're unlucky. According to the European Commission, only one coin in every 86,000 is fake. Your chances of holding a fake are highest with the €2 coin: 3 ...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The value of the euro may have come under pressure in recent months, but there is some good news for the single European currency -- the production of counterfeit notes and coins ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. By Wladimir Pantaleone PALERMO, Italy (Reuters) - Italian police on Friday seized 556,000 euros ($692,000) in fake euro coins ...

The 2-euro coins would even have worked in vending machines, he said, adding that the investigation is continuing. Italy, and especially the area around Naples, is a hotbed for euro counterfeiting, ...