An official Spanish one Euro coin bearing the face of cartoon couch potato Homer Simpson instead of that of the country’s king has turned up in candy shop owner Jose Martinez’s till.
Martinez was counting his cash the city of Aviles in northern Spain, when he chanced upon a Euro coin where the typical face of cartoon couch potato Homer Simpson had replaced that of King Juan Carlos.
“The coin must have been done by a professional,” he told Reuters.”It’s an impressive piece of work.”
Don Juan Carlos’s regal half-profile topped by a full head of curls had morphed seamlessly into the pop-eyed, big-nosed, bald-headed features of beer-guzzling Homer Simpson, complete with his 5 o’clock shadow.
The talented carver had not touched the other side of the coin displaying the map of Europe. So far, no other coins of the bald headed and big-eyed hapless ‘intelligent idiot’ have been found in circulation.
Martinez says he’s received thousands of bids for the coin have come in from Simpsons fans in the Netherlands, Japan, Canada and the US, but he plans to keep the collector’s item for himself–at least for now.
But he ought to beware of potential duplicates:
