From early to mid-January, I'm going to be in Versailles/Paris and later Reims for most of the month. Since my last visit to a Eurozone country in 2023, I have amassed nearly €200 of coins and banknotes, about 75% of which are 5, 10, 20, and 50-cent pieces. I would like to know how as a tourist I can deposit the vast majority of the coins either in a bank or La Poste in exchange for €2 coin rolls and notes. I won't be likely to request other denominations in rolls as I have a few vending machine locations in service stations to cycle through the coins, while they do accept €2 coins when you press reject they give you two Euro coins instead.
I've heard that some banks have their own policies for coin deposits especially with non-account holders so which branches are more open to accepting coins from non-account holders in exchange for cash and €2 coin rolls?
Question also posted on the French forum.
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From personal experience I would strongly suggest heading to a central bank, which I would hope BdF would do both services for free w/o need for deposit
Kenny
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Although there’s no photos apparently the Bank of France branch near the Louvre does coin deposits but like with other banks do they just accept them loose or do they have to be in rolls?
I have seen a few photos at some La Poste locations with these machines that dispense €2, €1 and 50 Cent pieces I just need confirmation that these still exist as most photos of them are from 2014-2018ish.
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Well after many trips to the bank and even to a coin dealer to use the coins in a purchase all ended in being rejected although the French side of Numista and the dealer said that supermarkets and bakeries would be happy to take them and so far it’s been going well although I do it when there’s no line at the checkout as it takes several minutes for the machine to process the coins.
For example at the coin dealer he could only accept 50 Cents and higher hence I bought a few coins from him using them. Yesterday I bought a pack of croissants using 1 and 2 Cent coins, today I managed to use 95% of the 5 cent pieces on buying beef, horse and chicken meat for a few days.
Hopefully when in Reims in a few days time I can use up all the remaining 5, 10 and 20 Cent coins on groceries to take back to the UK or maybe a few more coins.
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That is bad luck and I understand your struggle. Many years ago in Spain not even the central bank would take my euros, and stores would only exchange 1&2€ coins, 100 at a time. I ended up buying a tank of gas once with just 5c coins and “bought” an item with the 1700 I had left and promptly returned it… I hope exchanging coins in the UK is unlike your experience in France
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That is bad luck and I understand your struggle. Many years ago in Spain not even the central bank would take my euros, and stores would only exchange 1&2€ coins, 100 at a time. I ended up buying a tank of gas once with just 5c coins and “bought” an item with the 1700 I had left and promptly returned it… I hope exchanging coins in the UK is unlike your experience in France
In the UK it’s easier as long as they are bagged up to the correct amount as most banks don’t take partially filled bags, so for the last partial bag I’ll just use them in supermarket self checkouts. Also before my local branch closed at the end of last year they had a 5 bag limit which I don’t know if that applied to customers or non customers as on some occasions I’ve deposited 10-15 bags.
When I was in UAE in 2022 and last July I used the coins for the taxis because in 2022 they had a change shortage which likely occurred from the last coins being minted in 2018 and the increase in demand for coins after lockdowns were relaxed a few months prior.
Ease of Depositing extra change.
UK: Easy (likely due to me being a customer)
France: Hard (Bank customers only and 40 coin limit at checkouts so only way as a non customer is to use self checkouts or spend them at bakeries)
UAE: Easy (Self checkouts and taxis).
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I have seen one or two in the shopping centres and hypermarkets, so I might use this method for the 10 and 20 Cent coins I still have left once I get to Reims.
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Fortunately, I managed to spend all the spare coins mostly through coin deposit machines in bakeries and at supermarket checkouts.
Once I dumped several Euros worth of 5c coins into the machine, and it went over the amount I spent at the supermarket by a few Euros but instead of spitting them out it actually counted the excess coins and in the end gave me change in 50c and Euro coins which was better in the end as I was low on Euro coins.
Hi to whoever is reading this. Did you know that TYPEWRITER (on a QWERTY keyboard) is the longest word you can type using only the letters on one row of the keyboard.
Once I dumped several Euros worth of 5c coins into the machine, and it went over the amount I spent at the supermarket by a few Euros but instead of spitting them out it actually counted the excess coins and in the end gave me change in 50c and Euro coins which was better in the end as I was low on Euro coins.
You are lucky it didn't spit them all back out after hitting the coin limit. Excellent job
Kenny
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