Mysql don't store "€"

I am working on a application where I need to store/show data containing many special characters. I have set database collation utf8. I have set collation of table utf8 and character set as utf8_uni_code. It is storing all special characters like é, â. But whenever a character ,€ comes it isn't stored as it is. Like whenever there is a word “attributedâ€ it becomes âattributedâ. I am currently using Laravel 5.2 (PHP) .

What I have tried so far I have set following in my code

  iconv_set_encoding('internal_encoding', 'UTF-8');
  mb_internal_encoding('UTF-8');

I have also tried

$value = array_map("utf8_encode", $array);

But this special character isn't getting stored as it is. Will any one let me know what should I do to get this special character saved as it is.

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