Fake Oktoberfest beer tokens - beware!

Some of the tents have been hit at oktoberfest with fake beer tokens this year.

Mekure Online reports that 2 counterfeitters were arrested last monday, while the wiesen report from Munich Police lists a few other incidents.



The police have found over 29,000 tokens so far, some of which havent even made it onto the show ground yet.

Cheap beer tokens rarely exist, so be careful.

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Hiya
Most of the counterfeits were done on a colour copier onto white paper - the real coloured ones are done on coloured paper. Hacker and Schottenhamel have embossed wording along with complex designs (and possibly a watermark). Seems like the smaller tents are having the worst problems at the moment
Katrina

Most tokens (of the biggest tents as K mentioned) are actually made by G+D printers here in Munich who actually make a lot of the world's money so they are very hard to fake.

If a mte I knew had a couple left over he couldn't use I might buy em, but off a stranger? No way, these things are Munich's parallel currency and don't come at a discount.

I love the thought of this:

"We need to do up some more Yen for the Japanese"
"Well they will have to wait."
"But they said it's urgent"
"They will have to wait! We are printing up the Oktoberfest beer tokens!"

On that note,
Is anyone interssted in buying some of these coupons/tokens from my boyfriend? He has coupons for the Hippodrom because a bunch of his co-workers didn't show up on Tuesday - like they said they would - and he got caught holding the bag(of coupons for beer and 1/2 a chicken).

I don't know how many he has, I will ask.