Jar full of coins - do banks have coin machines?

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Trying to save the pennies - where best to exchange for notes? do banks still trade notes for coins? do all banks have coin machine?

thanks

Take them to the supermarket and use them to pay in self service machines!

Some do, but only for customers to use. Supermarkets have coin machines but they take a commission off the total

Metro bank does and its open 7 days a week and customer friendly hours

You bag them up and deposit into your account.

I use HSBC and our local one has a machine you can just tip mixed change into, it goes straight into my account. I'm pretty certain other banks have them too, but you might need to find a fairly large branch, as they're not universal.

Most coin machines charge a commission. Get some plastic coin bags from the bank and count it out properly, and have it paid straight into an account.

Both our local NatWest branches have coin machines for customers. You can tip mixed change in, it gives you a printed receipt which you take to the desk. They'll either pay it into your account or cash it into notes for you but you do have to have an account with them.

You can also pay money into most UK bank accounts via your local post office. I just paid a lots of coins in - I just picked up some coin bags first and sorted them first.

Thanks everyone!
I am saving up for a new oven - so getting bags from the banks and depositing into my account (TSB) sounds like the best course of action!

Tip: if you put the coins in a machine in a bank and lots are rejected because they might be fake/foreign (unknown to you) try putting them through again. I found about half of the 'rejects' went through on the second try, presumably the machine gets overwhelmed if they go through too fast.

Good tip - thanks @Mosaic123 - will definitely try that!

I think metro bank have machines that anyone can use fee free ( even if not a customer)

Thanks for this thread. DH thows all his loose change into a Tupperware box, which, after 38 years of marriage is 4 Tupperware boxes. I have a go at him regularly over said boxes. Now I'm going to send him with is precious boxes to Nat West.

Metro bank is great - free coin machines, you don’t have to be a bank customer and they don’t take commission.

In my experience many banks don't. They'll usually take coins but you have to sort and bag them yourself.

Self-checkouts are a good way to shift some coins. Try and find a store with the self-checkout for "larger shops", I had trouble when I took a ~£50 shop through a basket-sized checkout, it filled up and stopped accepting coins!

Supermarket Coinstar machines take commission. And read the small print! At one supermarket I go to the voucher can be used to pay at the till, but at another it can't and you need to go to customer services to get cash - including more bloody coins back!

Take them to the supermarket and use them to pay in self service machines!

They all take commission and some only issue a voucher for the store.

Natwest have coin machines but you get a voucher that you pay into your Natwest account. They do let homeless people cash in the voucher- so there may be some discretion.

No, not pay them into the self service coin manchines, actually into the self service machines to pay for your shopping!

Never seen one in a bank but the ones in supermarkets charge a large percentage. I always bag mine up and pay it in.

Another vote for Metro Bank. They don’t charge commission, the machine is fun (even for adults!) and you get the whole amount back in cash if you’re not a customer of theirs (I think). I got £100 back last time!

No metro bank in scotland