Editing Norwegian krone (section)

===Use of 10 Syrian pound coins in Norway===
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The characteristics of the ten [[Syrian pound]] (LS&nbsp;10) coin have been found to so closely resemble the Norwegian 20 kroner (NKr&nbsp;20) coin that it can [[Slug (coin)|fool vending machines, coins-to-cash machines, arcade machines, and any other coin-operated, automated service machine]] in the country. Machines are unable to tell the coins apart, owing to their almost identical weight and size.

As of mid-February 2017, LS&nbsp;10 was worth NKr 0.39, making the 20-kroner coin 51.5 times more valuable than the 10-pound coin. While not easy to find in Norway, the Syrian coins are still used in automated machines there with such frequency that {{lang|no|[[Posten (Norway)|Posten Norge]]}}, the Norwegian postal service, decided to close many of their coins-to-cash machines on 18 February 2006, with plans to develop a system able to differentiate between the two coins. In the summer of 2005, a Norwegian man was sentenced to 30 day [[suspended sentence]], for having used Syrian coins in arcade machines in the [[municipalities of Norway|municipality]] of [[Bærum]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.dagbladet.no/nyheter/2006/02/18/458229.html |title=Myntsvindlere herjer i Oslo |first=Øystein |last=Andersen |work=[[Dagbladet]] |publisher=DB Medialab AS |date=18 February 2006 |access-date=8 March 2008 |language=no |archive-date=21 March 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090321152038/http://www.dagbladet.no/nyheter/2006/02/18/458229.html |url-status=live }}</ref>