Jars of Coins

klfairy

We've got a couple of jars of coins: one coppers and one silver. I'm reluctant to give away any of it to machines. Would a bank give me a pile of those plastic bags they use?

ABOO_2

Yes they will. Done it loads of times.

Funniest thing is if you have quite a bit and it takes a while, everyone else in queue getting frustrated!

klfairy

Marvellous. Will have to annoy lots of people then

bonsibabe

My bank has no problem in giving loads of these bags, last time I went in with £95 of silver and the woman gave me a huge roll of bags. I now have £30 of coppers bagged up. I love going into the bank with them, i really love the looks people give. I have no shame!!!!

kissjenn

Hi,

Some branches will only let you exchange 5 bags a day to minimise queueing, while others will take the whole lot. Just best to be prepared if you're lugging tons in and maybe ask them first.

I think some branches of RBS (maybe others) also have coinstar type machines where you can just tip the money in but without any commission being lobbed off.

And finally, you can use the self service supermarket tills to use lots and lots of the coins to pay for your shopping and again zero commission.

HTH