Good Weather, Counterfeit Coins

Spring is in full tilt, the sky is bright blue and now there are blossoming trees like this one everywhere.


The Turkish Lira, like most currency has it's admirers who wish to flatter in the sincerest form. Counterfeit ten lira bills are the most common, the bill is obviously fake upon close examination but since tens are usually not scrutinized very closely, many are circulated. There are larger bills produced in counterfeit, though these are caught more quickly because of the intense scrutiny with which they are met.
But counterfeiting has a more humorous side, somewhere someone is producing counterfeit one Lira and 50 Kurush coins! Coins!! They aren't worth all that much really, the workers at the ferry and other places that deal with lots of small change spot them instantly and toss them back to you. One Lira can buy you a local newspaper or a couple bottles of water, nothing you're going to get change for say, covering the cost of minting coins. Maybe someone is just doing it for laughs.