I have thousands of baht in several money boxes that I have collected over the last 2 years and want to bank/spend them. The bank charges 3% to count them? Typical Thai bank. My colleague told me that any BTS station will happily exchange them for notes. Anybody found a good place to get rid of them as I can't stand the thought of the bank that gives me crap interest on my savings account ripping me off again.

The charge is only 30 baht per 1000 baht, hardly a rip off (If all banks have this charge).

Perhaps if they had standard coin-counting machines like most banks operating in the 21st century do, they wouldn't feel the need to charge for the labor-intensive act of hand-counting coins.

Have you tried simply making a deposit with'em?

Coinstar!

Take them to a supermarket. They need change and are happy to change for you

donate them to the poor and needy, mercy mission for children springs to mind.

baht bus?

Just pay with the coins, they are legal tender.

Have you tried simply making a deposit with'em?

we did and got charged by the bank

I have always heard that 7-11 is happy to take them in bulk for use as change. Personally, I always keep an empty 1 litre water bottle that I fill with all my loose change coins (less than B5). When they are full, I give them to charity. Have always been curious as to what they total too...I estimate maybe up to a couple thousand baht.

Once a parking lot attendant pissed me off and I paid him the B20 in satang coins and boy was he upset. I said that's all I had (a lie) and that they were "ghung Thai" so to stop complaining

Take them to a supermarket. They need change and are happy to change for you

Try Tops Supermarket. In Pattaya, for example, they are desperate for satang coins, so I guess they would take other small change too.

Edited November 11, 200718 yr by 7

I had the same subject on the Chiang Mai forum as I have the same mountain of coins in Chiang Mai, and I still have them.

Surely there must be a bank with a coin counting machine.

The only thing I could come up with was maybe take them to the 7-11.

But I would like to get rid of them in one go and there are an awful lot of them.

i dont mind to do the hand-counting for 2%, if 3% is too much for you. dont need satangs, but the rest is fine

always have some small bills to pay.

Just pay with the coins, they are legal tender.

Have you tried simply making a deposit with'em?

we did and got charged by the bank

same here... which I suppose makes them technically 98% legal tender... or some such figure.

I refused and ended up changing half of them with the fruit market lady for 100% legal tender... and she actually trusted me that my count was accurate and exchanged them to cash straight away.

More trust from the fruit market lady than my own bank who wouldn't process the deposit unless I waited while they counted AND charged me a fee.... oh well.

oh yes, the other half I dropped several at a time at a tin collection box at the local Wat.....

ting, ting, ting....

ting, ting, ting, ting, ting........

ting, ting...

ting, ting, ting.............

ting, ting, ting, ting, ting.........

The young novice monks had a fun watching and the abbot thanked us.

Edited November 11, 200718 yr by sriracha john

Exchange all coins with me over beer (of course you pay for beer)

We drink and I do the counting in addition to drinking.

Use them the next time the traffic cops want money for whiskey.

Petrol stations always want change - not satangs though. Pay for your diesel with coins - no problems.

Looks like 7-11 is the go. I am dubious of all Thai 'charities'. Who collects the locked containers I see everywhere?

I have thousands of baht in several money boxes that I have collected over the last 2 years and want to bank/spend them. The bank charges 3% to count them? Typical Thai bank. My colleague told me that any BTS station will happily exchange them for notes. Anybody found a good place to get rid of them as I can't stand the thought of the bank that gives me crap interest on my savings account ripping me off again.

We put all our coins in our daughter and nephews money boxes then once a year we count it all up and put it in their bank accounts. It can be anything up to 10k baht and we've never been charged by the bank for depositing it.

So if 3% is too much to pay open up a childs account and put it in there

I have thousands of baht in several money boxes that I have collected over the last 2 years and want to bank/spend them. The bank charges 3% to count them? Typical Thai bank. My colleague told me that any BTS station will happily exchange them for notes. Anybody found a good place to get rid of them as I can't stand the thought of the bank that gives me crap interest on my savings account ripping me off again.

We had the same problem...paid for our daily meal at the noodle shop...he was very pleased to get coins...also changed 100Baht each day with him. solved