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becky

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I have a box of coins belonging to my mother. I had begun sorting them with a view to throwing them into one of those money bins. I discovered the charge is 10%, so I'm not doing that.

That led me down a rabbit hole of valuable euro coins. It seems some are worth a few bob!

I'm struggling to see what year some of the coins are. I've tried the phone photo etc but it isn't helping much.

Has anyone any tips?

Thanks in advance.
 
becky said:
I have a box of coins belonging to my mother. I had begun sorting them with a view to throwing them into one of those money bins. I discovered the charge is 10%, so I'm not doing that.

That led me down a rabbit hole of valuable euro coins. It seems some are worth a few bob!

I'm struggling to see what year some of the coins are. I've tried the phone photo etc but it isn't helping much.

Has anyone any tips?

Thanks in advance.
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Stronger prescription spectacles?
 
becky said:
That led me down a rabbit hole of valuable euro coins. It seems some are worth a few bob!
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Some of the euro coins are worth more than their face value, really?

I kept one of the original bags of coins that everyone got when the euro coins were first introduced - in the hopes that the bag of coins might become a collectors item, but I don't expect them to be with much, at least not for another couple of decades.
 
noproblem said:
Fill a glass with coca-cola and leave the coins in it overnight. It cleans them.
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Indeed it does clean them, of that there is no doubt.
And then you will ,more than likely, find that they are worth no more than face value.
 
I have tons of old coins, same thing my mother kept them and only now in the clearout of Dad's house I've the job of getting rid of them. It is true some coins are worth a lot but the chances of finding one in random boxes like that is rare but if you have the time knock yourself out! I did the coke thing as some were filthy but my reason was just so I could bag them up for getting rid of. Mine are mainly pre Euro and I have found a local guy who takes them at face value and no doubt he hopes to find something valuable in them! Other alternative is bring them to Central Bank for old coins.

Newer Euro ones are even less likely to be worth much, some of the old paper notes at least if in good condition can sell for a percentage over their actual worth but I won't be making my fortune out of them. I even have old special issue coins that I can find traded on ebay etc but again not worth much, hardly worth the effort and time.
 
becky said:
I have a box of coins belonging to my mother. I had begun sorting them with a view to throwing them into one of those money bins. I discovered the charge is 10%, so I'm not doing that.

That led me down a rabbit hole of valuable euro coins. It seems some are worth a few bob!

I'm struggling to see what year some of the coins are. I've tried the phone photo etc but it isn't helping much.

Has anyone any tips?

Thanks in advance.
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If you have a post office (an post) savings book account they will allow you deposit bagged up euro 1c,2c,5c to your a/c. So you don't have to pay 10% commission on those awful coin machines. Get the coin bags in AIB etc. I usually have up to 50 euro in small change after a year so its not a lot but worth depositing.
 
deanpark said:
If you have a post office (an post) savings book account they will allow you deposit bagged up euro 1c,2c,5c to your a/c. So you don't have to pay 10% commission on those awful coin machines. Get the coin bags in AIB etc. I usually have up to 50 euro in small change after a year so its not a lot but worth depositing.
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That'll work. But there's a much, much easier way. On your regular supermarket visits, bring along a bag of coins, say 10 to 20 euros or so. When your shopping is totted up, hand over the coins. The checkout operator will count them up, key in the amount and the till calculates the remaining balance. Which you then pay by card.

Job done. No fuss, no 10% commission, no unnecessary trip to the post office or bank. Repeat weekly until all coins are gone.
 
Baby boomer said:
That'll work. But there's a much, much easier way. On your regular supermarket visits, bring along a bag of coins, say 10 to 20 euros or so. When your shopping is totted up, hand over the coins. The checkout operator will count them up, key in the amount and the till calculates the remaining balance. Which you then pay by card.

Job done. No fuss, no 10% commission, no unnecessary trip to the post office or bank. Repeat weekly until all coins are gone.
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No, they don't have to take bags of coin as payment, and most of them will not take large amounts.
 
noproblem said:
No, they don't have to take bags of coin as payment, and most of them will not take large amounts.
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Absolutely correct, they don't HAVE to. But most do, certainly for amounts in the 10 - 20 euro bracket. I've been doing it for years and never once been refused.
 
Think my once a year trip to the post office sounds far easier and less reliant on the good grace of the Tesco cashiers. Each to their own.
 
If we are talking ordinary Euro coins (not old stuff) UB have very handy machines that count them and you can lodge it to your account, no good obviously if you are not a customer, I am but I don't use the machine because oddly enough I like to bag up my coin throughout the year and you have to throw it into their machine loose.

I bag it up and every December lodge it to my AIB account, I have never yet been charged to do that, I have actually offered it to local shops like people are always suggesting and both local small supermarkets didn't want it! If I'm accumulating a lot of small coin other than the 2&1 euro coins that go in the Christmas jar :) I throw it in a bag and once a week or so I'll usually be in some shop that has self service checkout and I fire it in there.
 
Do a search on Ebay for old Euro coins to see what is and isn't selling on there for above face value. There are some. BoI take in my change jar once a year at no fee as long as it is bagged correctly
 
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