€2 euro coins

Only if you con some unsuspecting bartender into believing they're toonies. But they would be getting the better deal at current exchange rates. Like a 50% tip for their next trip to Europe

Generally Canadian shops do not accept euros. If you have 100£ worth of euros, you should have around 52 coins. Wow, that's a lot of coins and a lot of weight to bring to Canada for no reason. You can try to find someone who might need euros and is willing to buy some from you or maybe you can donate the coins to Change for Good.

Do you know anyone traveling that you can sell them to?

Other than going to Europe and spending them, selling them to someone who is going there is the only solutions I have.

Just have to ask, how did you end up with so many 2 euro coins?

It's not likely anyone in Canada will accept them, even the Banks, as they would have trouble getting rid of them. Although they look similar to Toonies, I doubt anyone would be fooled (and you'd be losing money). I'd suggest saving them for your next trip to Europe, or sell them to someone who is travelling to Europe in the near future.

Could you clarify - do you mean you have €100 in coins. Pounds Sterling is a different entity.

• Travel to Europe and spend them.
• Carry them to Canada, make a boat trip, and use them for ballast.
• Have a close look at them, find out they're all different, and start a collection.
• Give them to a charity (some charities will have special programs accepting foreign currency coins).

I can't imagine you'll find anyone to sell them to, at least not at their real value. Why would anyone who might need Euros buy a pound of heavy coins in GB (assuming that's where you are) and weigh down their suitcase with it? They would want light Euro bills and be done with it.

One more: take a vacation on one of the Caribbean Islands that is part of the EU and uses Euros, such as St. Martins, Martinique, Guadeloupe.

Are you near any of the Rick Steves Travel Groups? If so, I'm sure someone there would be interesting in buying some of your coins for their own upcoming trips.

https://community.ricksteves.com/travel-forum/travel-meetings

I'm with the others - how did you accumulate so many coins? It's not like they're hard to spend in Europe! And do save at least some of them for future trips - when everyone else is complaining that the ticket vending machine at the airport or train station didn't take US credit cards or euro notes (forcing them to wait in a long line at a ticket window), you'll be sailing through by buying your tickets from the machine with your coins!

you'll be sailing through by buying your tickets from the machine with
your coins!

And your fellow travelers waiting in line behind you will just love watching you pay a €68 train ticket in €2 coins. :-)

But then, you've been carrying this pound of coins around with you for a week, who cares! :D

An €2 coin weighs 8.5g (I looked it up) x 50 coins = 4.25 Kg. How did you manage to carry that much weight back in your luggage?

I too am amazed how you manged to accumulate that much change.

Nowhere outside a country accepts or changes coins, notes only. The only solution is to exchange with someone going to Euroland, or even better take them back yourself and spend them. Assuming you have 4.25Kg spare in your luggage allowance.

The only solution is to exchange with someone going to Euroland

... assuming that person has 4.25kg spare in their luggage allowance. :-)

50 coins @ 8.5 gm = 425 gm or 0.425 kg, less than 1 # (not 4.25 kg).

BTW, grams are mass, not weight. The 2€ coin weighs 0.0833 Newtons at standard gravity of 9.8 m/s².

On the moon it would only weigh a couple of ounces (but it would still be 425 gm).

You're right of course, didn't even notice the wrong decimal point. A pound, like I said before.

Still more than I'd want to carry around in my luggage.

There is one way you could spend Euro in Canada (sort of). Spend a few days on St. Pierre & Miquelon, as they're a territory of France and use Euro.

Thanks Lee :-)

I just round it to a full, heavy pocket.

Ask at a federal bank. They won't take coins though. Their smallest denomination will likely be either 5 or ten - paper only.

@ Lee: Spoken like a physicist.

Try to find someone headed to Euroland to buy your Euro. Hopefully you have more that just 2 euro coins.

We're headed to Italy, Slovenia and Austria in late summer and are buying my German neighbor's Euros, from 50 euro notes to small coins, that he didn't have time to cash in last time he went to Germany. It'll help us out when we're tired and b**chy after flying all night and we won't have to find an ATM for a day or so.

Too bad Croatia isn't on the euro because we'll have to get Kuna for just a couple days. Does anyone have an idea how much we'll need to exchange? We'll have 4 lunches, 1 dinner and souvenirs that our tour doesn't cover.
As always, thanks for your help.

On the moon it would only weigh a couple of ounces

But it still couldn't be used there.

my dear friend who lives in Kuwait did a version of this...... showed up in the Florida with a gallon zip lock bag half full of American coins.

she was able to pick around in it and come up with $12 dollars for admission at the first attraction we visited.....

then we drove her to a bank and forced her to run the remaining nickels and pennies through their change machine.

sigh

forced her to run the remaining nickels and pennies

Pennies (or cents, in this case) would definitely be worse than €2 coins because here at least, stores are not necessarily required to accept small cent coins in large amounts. Sometimes young women will have collected big pots of cents or pennies for their bridal shoes, and then I guess they find they are not going to get married, or whatever, and want to get rid of them. Not so easy. No salesperson is going to love you for that, and neither are the customers waiting in line behind you.

Sometimes young women will have collected big pots of cents or pennies for their bridal shoes, and then I guess they find they are not going to get married, or whatever, and want to get rid of them

oh no that's so sad

I know, isn't it? :D

@horsewoofie I just returned from Croatia yesterday and spent around 100kn for my meals, which is about $15. That was just a basic entree and a coke. Depending on your eating habits, you could spend more though - it's around 40kn for a glass of wine, and a nicer entree than pasta or risotto is 100-200kn. I am a cheapskate non-foodie so I try to spend as little as possible on meals! I did have a nicer meal with a friend in Split and we spent about 400kn for two entrees, an appetizer, a bottle of water, and 3 glasses of wine. Dubrovnik is probably 10% more expensive than Split. Hope that helps!

Katherine, thank you so much for the info. Your help is appreciated. I'll plan on cheap lunches and a little nicer dinners. Fortunately the hotel provides breakfast. We'll be in Rovinj for a couple days before the tour heads to the Lippizan breeding farm in Lipica Slovenia.
Kathy
PS: Neighbor had 740€ paper and a few coins for us. Wasn't that nice of him! Win-win for all of us.

Ha! I have a strange suspicion that this OP (with single post) is just pulling our leg!

Wow, Horsewoofie! You have a very generous neighbor! Enjoy your trip!