Paying coins in

TheBanker

Cloth_of_Gold said:

vikkiew said:

sammyjammy said:

For future reference some banks have coin deposit machines in branch (HSBC for sure), no counting or bagging required, deposits straight into account.

I have yet to see this and I have visited several HSBC branches in the South and London. Perhaps I have missed it and should ask but it's difficult to get staff who are always busy helping some confused customer.

The NatWest near me has one.

The city centre Natwest near me used to have one, but they moved into a new (smaller) branch and didn't take the coin counting machine with them. 

I hardly use cash these days, so don't really have this problem. But my local pub is happy to change bags of £2/£1 and silver coins. Saves them having to pay their bank to provide change. Maybe they only do this for regular customers as they seem to take it on trust that the bags are correct. They don't want 1p or 2p coins though, perhaps because allthe prices are rounded to x0p or x5p. 

When I get odd coins, I just shove them in the self-service till at the supermarket (providing it accepts coins, of course - a lot of them have been changed to card only these days).

Even charity collection tins on shop counters for you to drop your loose change into seem to be a thing of the past these days.