I Love Coins!

K9cuddles

As you can see from my sig.. I've obessed too! I started on 3rd March with my Terramundi for £2 coins.. then the Cash Can joined the collection for all silvers under 50p and then my Pigsback Piggybank for all 1p & 2ps that I convert to £2 coins for the terra!

jessicamb

Its ludicrous that the banks won't take the money!

I havent paid into the bank for a few years this way but the post office have changed it.

The other alternative is to go to a shop - they always want change especially copper but probably best to go when its quiet. This is the way that I do it normally if I have a lot of spare change.

Willsnarf1983

i heard on the radio

coppers from before 1992 are 97% copper this means that a 2p is actually worth 3p and a 1p is worth 1.5p is you were to take them to a scrap yard!

Will

heppy23

Banks shouldn't make a fuss about you paying in change. Changing it for notes is different.

They aren't so strict with kids account in my experience so all our change goes into one of the babies savings accounts. He will be buying all the treats on holiday this year!

sproggi

Our local Nationwide has the same rule as the Halifax, they have a big sign on the tellers windows saying 'no more than 5 bags of coins a day'.
Glad I don't bank with them!

I love saving coins. I have loads of piggy banks (love pigs:rolleyes: ) and I have graded a few of my pigs by size so that I fill up 'babe' first, then when he is full I empty his coins into 'scratchings', from him they are transferred to 'hammy', then to 'trotter' and finally into 'porky'. When 'porky' is full I take a trip to the bank:T
I have found that, by concentrating on filling 'babe', the satisfaction of having filled a piggy is never far away.

Sproggi

comicmankev

If there is a plus side to banks not taking money, I've heard (and it's definately true for Abbey and Halifax at least) that they cannot refuse coins if paid into a childrens account! So maybe a good way to boost their trusts!

comicmankev

fishface-69 wrote:

I love coins too but got everenthusiastic with my coin sorter last month (Argos 19.99!) & have now decided not to collect 50p & £1 but saved £44 this month!! Every day I emoty my change inti sorter & lovey clunk clunk later its all sorted into appropriate tube! Fab & while a bit of an extravagence (cut down elsewhere!) well worth every penny! Banked every month but woman in bank told me I had to write it all in the paying in book!!! Fancy not taking it in though...mad! Bankers!!

I got 1 of these for Xmas a couple of years ago, and still going strong! They are great, but now I collect the coins in lots of different ways, this just sorts them, and never really gets any higher than whats in my pocket per day!

fruitycar

there was a 2 pound coin in the collection plate at church on Sunday, I swear it winked at me , but I had to let it go past......ooohhhh the temptation

comicmankev

fruitycar wrote:

there was a 2 pound coin in the collection plate at church on Sunday, I swear it winked at me , but I had to let it go past......ooohhhh the temptation

Now that is funny! lol

GreyPilgrim

I'm trying to think of a justifiable reason why banks won't accept bags of change...even from their own customers?

Wonder if it's a policy thing, or just down to local branches to decide?