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have you loads of foreign coins to dispose of? a solution?

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infoman Fri 03-Sept-21 05:51:13

Banks don't normally except the return of coins when you have returned from an overseas holiday.
Let me knoe IF you know any banks that do.

A very large supermarket chain has started to install foreign coin exchange machines,similar to star machines that will "count" your British coins and charge you a percentage for the privilidge.
These new foreign coin exchange machines are blue in colour and are similar to the yellow ones you see in some major train stations.
So dig out all those coins you have in your cupboards.
If any of the coins ever get rejected,just put them back in again as after a couple of attempts so times they get excepted.
Good luck and let us know how you get on.

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shysal Fri 03-Sept-21 07:57:35

Some charity shops used to accept foreign coins, I see no reason why they still wouldn't.

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MawBe Fri 03-Sept-21 08:05:57

What’s an overseas holiday?

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B9exchange Fri 03-Sept-21 08:08:54

We always drop ours off in the bins at the airport on the way out, BA used to come round with bags and collect them, but I suppose Covid has put a stop to that!

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Esspee Fri 03-Sept-21 08:19:56

MawBe

What’s an overseas holiday?

???

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glammanana Fri 03-Sept-21 08:43:48

I have always given any foreign leftover monies into the collection boxes brought around on the plane prior to landing quite a few airlines offer the service and donate the collection to childrens charities.

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Pittcity Fri 03-Sept-21 09:15:30

I volunteer in our local Air Ambulance charity shop and we will accept foreign coins, broken jewellery, rags....anything that has a resale value.

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Witzend Fri 03-Sept-21 11:39:09

A few years ago dh took a stack of foreign coins we’d collected for years (some even pre Euro) and small denomination notes (the ones the banks won’t take) to a machine in one of the big London railway stations. IIRC the machines are called FourEx, or ForEx.

He came back with just over £90!
Later did the same for a dd’s collection - £60 odd.

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Witzend Fri 03-Sept-21 11:44:30

I should have added, we give substantial regular donations to charity anyway. TBH although the cash was certainly a nice bonus, it was more a case of getting rid of the cluttering hoards that had been accumulating for decades - inc. pesetas, schillings, francs, drachmas. It all weighed a ton!

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