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I heard they were even at it with coins at one stage.

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They do it with £1 coins in the UK. Easy to forge.

They used do it here with 50p coins just stamped out of sheet metal that would work in vending machines.

My father used even do it when he was a kid... put some coin (don't ask me which one) on the train track, let the train flatten it, and then use it as a larger denomination (again, don't ask which one) in the local shop where the old lady behind the counter had real bad eyesight.

I can even remember being offered £1000 worth of fake twenties for £200 by some dodgy fooker in Cork.

Yea, counterfeiting. It's around a while.

Adam,remind your wife of the game she would have played when she was a kid,it's called "pass the parcel".
A few years back I was offered €50 notes for €20 each,told him to take a hike. They are out there all the time €5,€10,€20,and €50.

People pay attention to €50 notes, so they are harder to pass off. A €5 or €10 note is usually just slipped into the wallet/till without inspection, so they are a better bet for the forgers.

They're also made from a cheaper grade of paper.

Counterfeiting was rife when I worked in bars up north years ago. I was surprised when I started working in Dublin, in the mid-1990s, that it just wasn't an issue. The owner of the pub I worked in reckoned that any note good enough to get past him would be good enough for him to pass on to someone else.

Pub I worked in, the owner was easy to wind up.
We printed off an A4 sized 50 euro note and brought it down to the office to the owner saying one of the younger lads* had accepted it into the till in the off license.
He believed us for a minute and almost had a heart attack.

*I was in my v early 20's so you can imagine how young the other employees were in this place.