On Jul 25, 2:58*pm, MIG wrote:

On 25 July, 14:36, Mizter T wrote:

A friend has been given quite a lot of Euro coinage that all adds up
to a fair amount whack (n.b. this is not a result of either money
laundering nor theft!), and was pondering on how he might be able to
spend it in London - he's not planning on travelling to Euroland for
some time to come (having just returned from an extended escapade),
and anyway likes to travel light.

Now I've got some vague notion that LU might accept Euros at one or
two central London stations, such as KXSP. I can't however find any
mention of this on the TfL website, and even if it was the case I can
imagine it might be notes only and not coins. Does anyone know
anything more than that? The idea of course was that he could top-up
his Oyster with all this spare change (perhaps over the course of more
than one transaction though!).

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What about a shop in a touristy area that happens to be a Ticket Stop?

Er, maybe - though in general there aren't that many Ticket Stops in
central London. Perhaps somewhere like Greenwich - though whether
they'd really want a tonnage of coins is another matter, as presumably
there's a cost and/or hassle factor in handling them. Plus I can
imagine they might be wary of accepting it for Oyster top-ups.

Of course there's presumably a cost and/or hassle factor in LU
accepting Euro coinage too - but I assume it's still worth there while
(Paul C upthread confirms that there are a few LU stations that do
accept the Euro).