Exchanging Coins In Bkk

[smx1313]

Howdy, I've got fistfulls of coins from my travels. English pounds, Japanese Yen, Euro's.

Will the banks in BKK exhange them?

If not, is there a place in BKK that will?

Thanks in advance.

Edited December 20, 2006 by smx1313

[BambinA]

Will the banks in BKK exhange them?

you mean coin .. not bill right?

Try

- Money Exchange shops near Big C Ratchadumri opposite Central World Plaza aka .Worldtrade

Edited December 20, 2006 by BambinA

[Soju]

While I've never tried the place suggested by Bambina, I will say that I've never heard of any exchange place in the world that is willing to accept foreign coins. Go ahead and try the place and see, but don't be surprised if they don't take them. I think you'll have better luck trying to find a collector of foreign coins or a coins store to sell them to, albeit for probably pennies on the dollar.

[smx1313]

While I've never tried the place suggested by Bambina, I will say that I've never heard of any exchange place in the world that is willing to accept foreign coins. Go ahead and try the place and see, but don't be surprised if they don't take them. I think you'll have better luck trying to find a collector of foreign coins or a coins store to sell them to, albeit for probably pennies on the dollar.

Yep, that's what I figured. I'm xfering planes in Tokyo, I'm going to try to change all of my change in Yen for paper money. That way I can then at least change the bill to Bhat in BKK.

As far as the English Pounds and Euro, maybe I can so some bar room money changing.

It's only a matter of time untill I sitting next to a Brit or Euro. I'll swap my coins for Bhat for at

least beer money.

[Scott]

I've never found any place that takes foreign coins. Good luck. Some airlines used to have a coin deposit box to give them to charity--I haven't seen one of those for a while either!

[PhilHarries]

As per the other replies I have never been able to offload coins anywhere in the world. At Moscow trying to change remaining Roubles back to sterling they just threw the loose change back on the counter "Souvenirs".

Funny thing is that they will accept dollar bills but not pound coins which are worth close to double.

Also watch for small value notes. A few years back I was travelling with a client back from Italy and he had a whole wedge of 1000 Lira notes that Don Muang exchange declined to accept.

Best place for coins is those charity boxes airside at most airports.