Euro change

[damienmcguigan]

Spent a couple of years living in Mexico recently and have a lot of small euro coins. Does anyone know if there is any coinstar machine etc... in Belfast that accepts euro's as well as sterling?

[AyeYerMa]

I don't even know of a coinstar machine in Belfast, or indeed what a coinstar machine is.

PS When I were a lad and we had some of those Mexican coins, what we did was put them away in a wee beg until the next time we were in Mexico when we spent them on beer and cigarettes and such, as was the fashion at the time.

[damienmcguigan]

I don't even know of a coinstar machine in Belfast, or indeed what a coinstar machine is.

PS When I were a lad and we had some of those Mexican coins, what we did was put them away in a wee beg until the next time we were in Mexico when we spent them on beer and cigarettes and such, as was the fashion at the time.

I will have beer, flegs and hipflasks to carry with me. I will be damned if I have to carry a tub of 1c and 2c coins on the way down too!

[Kofi Annan]

I don't even know of a coinstar machine in Belfast, or indeed what a coinstar machine is.

PS When I were a lad and we had some of those Mexican coins, what we did was put them away in a wee beg until the next time we were in Mexico when we spent them on beer and cigarettes and such, as was the fashion at the time.

I will have beer, flegs and hipflasks to carry with me. I will be damned if I have to carry a tub of 1c and 2c coins on the way down too!

D, give it away to a charity, what a way to start the day.

[BR]

I don't even know of a coinstar machine in Belfast, or indeed what a coinstar machine is.

PS When I were a lad and we had some of those Mexican coins, what we did was put them away in a wee beg until the next time we were in Mexico when we spent them on beer and cigarettes and such, as was the fashion at the time.

When I were a lad, we used to bring the Mexican coins back north and put them in those change machines thereby making up to 20% profit. Well, when I really was a lad, we just brought them north and spent them in the shap.

[AyeYerMa]

I don't even know of a coinstar machine in Belfast, or indeed what a coinstar machine is.

PS When I were a lad and we had some of those Mexican coins, what we did was put them away in a wee beg until the next time we were in Mexico when we spent them on beer and cigarettes and such, as was the fashion at the time.

When I were a lad, we used to bring the Mexican coins back north and put them in those change machines thereby making up to 20% profit. Well, when I really was a lad, we just brought them north and spent them in the shap.

This is true. Then they brought out the funny 20p or Shergar Remembrance Medals as they were called*


*By some.

[BR]

I don't even know of a coinstar machine in Belfast, or indeed what a coinstar machine is.

PS When I were a lad and we had some of those Mexican coins, what we did was put them away in a wee beg until the next time we were in Mexico when we spent them on beer and cigarettes and such, as was the fashion at the time.

When I were a lad, we used to bring the Mexican coins back north and put them in those change machines thereby making up to 20% profit. Well, when I really was a lad, we just brought them north and spent them in the shap.

This is true. Then they brought out the funny 20p or Shergar Remembrance Medals as they were called*


*By some.

Aye, you had to change all the horses in to salmon by the time you got the border.

[big mervyn]

Tesco Metros are handy and there are several in Mexico Citeh. Pop into one before heading back and pour all your shrapnel into a self service machine in exchange for a can or 2 of your favourite beverage.

[dcpete]

If Ulster fans pooled all the euro change we found behind the sofa or in a drawer somewhere we might have enough to make up the difference between 1F's contract request and what the IRFU are offering.

[Samstew]

If Ulster fans pooled all the euro change we found behind the sofa or in a drawer somewhere we might have enough to make up the difference between 1F's contract request and what the IRFU are offering.

There may even be enough to sort out the Irish banks dilemma!

[tighthead]

Spent a couple of years living in Mexico recently and have a lot of small euro coins. Does anyone know if there is any coinstar machine etc... in Belfast that accepts euro's as well as sterling?

Just spend them in Mexico when you go down on Saturday.

[damienmcguigan]

Tesco Metros are handy and there are several in Mexico Citeh. Pop into one before heading back and pour all your shrapnel into a self service machine in exchange for a can or 2 of your favourite beverage.

Excellent idea!

[Russ]

Bag them into 5 yoyo denominations and hand them over with each pint purchased

[BaggyTrousers]

Many of you will be too young to remember the happy pre-euro days of equality between Betty's pounds & the feckin' punt. I was a youngish gossoon in the bank (evil barstewards) when the split in parity was made and recall with horror the long nights those of us below the rank of Manager spent in a border town Stroke City, going through tens of thousands upon tens of thousands of pounds worth of coin, separating the Brit from the Paddy and then making the resulting piles up into wee begs.

Yes we got a fair amount of overtime - in the days when you could still claim overtime & not be seen as a trouble-making communist - but it was a severe pain in the nads and a waste of the valuable time that should have been spent in the Glue-Pot swallying very fine stout.

[Shan]

I'll happily take any spare change off ye. I must organise to get a few boxes installed in the major population centres of NI so ye can can just pop the money in as ye go past.


What I usually do when I am about to leave a country using a different currency is to see if any poor homeless folk are about and just give 'em all my change. Saves me carrying it and helps somebody out. Plenty of unfortunate folk in Dubland so if anyone is feeling generous it would be a handy way of offloading unwanted coins.