"Mizter T" wrote in message
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A friend has been given quite a lot of Euro coinage that all adds up
to a fair amount whack (n.b. this is not a result of either money
laundering nor theft!), and was pondering on how he might be able to
spend it in London - he's not planning on travelling to Euroland for
some time to come (having just returned from an extended escapade),
and anyway likes to travel light.

Now I've got some vague notion that LU might accept Euros at one or
two central London stations, such as KXSP. I can't however find any
mention of this on the TfL website, and even if it was the case I can
imagine it might be notes only and not coins. Does anyone know
anything more than that? The idea of course was that he could top-up
his Oyster with all this spare change (perhaps over the course of more
than one transaction though!).

Anther suggestion I had was M&S, who I understand accept Euros - at
their central London stores at least, if not perhaps all their stores
- not sure whether they take coins though, and if they do I dunno
whether they'd be that keen on enormous quantities of them! Also yes I
believe McDonald's in central London accepts Euros, but the only thing
he'd really want from them is a coffee. Lastly, I know there are those
'CoinStar' machines - these are the machines you get in supermarkets
which accept and count up your (Sterling) shrapnel and then I think
give you a voucher for spending at the supermarket, whilst taking a
generous cut for themselves for all the hard work they do - well I
dunno if there are any such machines which accept and exchange Euro
coinage for Sterling around? I've got some very vague idea that they
might exist somewhere, though I'm sure the deal they do isn't a great
one.

So an on-topic question which degenerates into an off-topic one - but
I'm sure utl can handle that!

If you went to a branch of a Euro based bank I wonder if they would have
facilities? Mind you, having written that the thought that came to mind
was Santander and I can't see an Abbey branch even understanding the
question, much less actioning it.

In article ,
(Graham Harrison) wrote:

"Mizter T" wrote in message
...
A friend has been given quite a lot of Euro coinage that all adds up
to a fair amount whack (n.b. this is not a result of either money
laundering nor theft!), and was pondering on how he might be able to
spend it in London - he's not planning on travelling to Euroland for
some time to come (having just returned from an extended escapade),
and anyway likes to travel light.
....
If you went to a branch of a Euro based bank I wonder if they would
have facilities? Mind you, having written that the thought that
came to mind was Santander and I can't see an Abbey branch even
understanding the question, much less actioning it.

Sell them to me? I'm going to Paris next month.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

On Jul 25, 3:29*pm, wrote:

(Graham Harrison) wrote:

"Mizter T" wrote:
A friend has been given quite a lot of Euro coinage that all adds up
to a fair amount whack (n.b. this is not a result of either money
laundering nor theft!), and was pondering on how he might be able to
spend it in London - he's not planning on travelling to Euroland for
some time to come (having just returned from an extended escapade),
and anyway likes to travel light.
...
If you went to a branch of a Euro based bank I wonder if they would
have facilities? * Mind you, having written that the thought that
came to mind was Santander and I can't see an Abbey branch even
understanding the question, much less actioning it.

Sell them to me? I'm going to Paris next month.

Well finding someone to offload them to is of course a possibility, as
is just keeping them all for the time being. But I must admit the
problem, such as it is one, has piqued my interest - my first thought
was that spending Euros in London wouldn't be a problem at all, but
the fact it's all in coins means it's not so easy. (Though if M&S do
take Euro coins then I can imagine they might well be accommodating,
especially if it was at one of their two big Oxford Street stores and
was at a quieter time of day.)

On 25 July, 16:39, Mizter T wrote:
On Jul 25, 3:29*pm, wrote:





(Graham Harrison) wrote:

"Mizter T" wrote:
A friend has been given quite a lot of Euro coinage that all adds up
to a fair amount whack (n.b. this is not a result of either money
laundering nor theft!), and was pondering on how he might be able to
spend it in London - he's not planning on travelling to Euroland for
some time to come (having just returned from an extended escapade),
and anyway likes to travel light.
...
If you went to a branch of a Euro based bank I wonder if they would
have facilities? * Mind you, having written that the thought that
came to mind was Santander and I can't see an Abbey branch even
understanding the question, much less actioning it.

Sell them to me? I'm going to Paris next month.

Well finding someone to offload them to is of course a possibility, as
is just keeping them all for the time being. But I must admit the
problem, such as it is one, has piqued my interest - my first thought
was that spending Euros in London wouldn't be a problem at all, but
the fact it's all in coins means it's not so easy. (Though if M&S do
take Euro coins then I can imagine they might well be accommodating,
especially if it was at one of their two big Oxford Street stores and
was at a quieter time of day.)

I wonder if they take them in pubs in Kilburn?

On Jul 25, 2:50*pm, "Graham Harrison"
wrote:

"Mizter T" wrote:

A friend has been given quite a lot of Euro coinage that all adds up
to a fair amount whack (n.b. this is not a result of either money
laundering nor theft!), and was pondering on how he might be able to
spend it in London - he's not planning on travelling to Euroland for
some time to come (having just returned from an extended escapade),
and anyway likes to travel light.

Now I've got some vague notion that LU might accept Euros at one or
two central London stations, such as KXSP. I can't however find any
mention of this on the TfL website, and even if it was the case I can
imagine it might be notes only and not coins. Does anyone know
anything more than that? The idea of course was that he could top-up
his Oyster with all this spare change (perhaps over the course of more
than one transaction though!).

Anther suggestion I had was M&S, who I understand accept Euros - at
their central London stores at least, if not perhaps all their stores
- not sure whether they take coins though, and if they do I dunno
whether they'd be that keen on enormous quantities of them! Also yes I
believe McDonald's in central London accepts Euros, but the only thing
he'd really want from them is a coffee. Lastly, I know there are those
'CoinStar' machines - these are the machines you get in supermarkets
which accept and count up your (Sterling) shrapnel and then I think
give you a voucher for spending at the supermarket, whilst taking a
generous cut for themselves for all the hard work they do - well I
dunno if there are any such machines which accept and exchange Euro
coinage for Sterling around? I've got some very vague idea that they
might exist somewhere, though I'm sure the deal they do isn't a great
one.

So an on-topic question which degenerates into an off-topic one - but
I'm sure utl can handle that!

If you went to a branch of a Euro based bank I wonder if they would have
facilities? [...]

Banks, the PO and bureaux de change all only seem to deal with notes
when it comes to other currencies (and that includes the Euro), at
least when dealing with bog-standard customers.


[...] Mind you, having written that the thought that came to mind
was Santander and I can't see an Abbey branch even understanding the
question, much less actioning it.

They're that bad are they?! Santander gets a black mark in my book
anyway for introducing, or at least making popular, the concept of
dynamic currency conversion which helps to rip-off travellers across
Europe and the wider world.