You halfwit!

[Anakah]

This guy was just... Wow. An ass.

He comes up with ninety dollars in chips and dumps four foreign coins on my counter. I nicely tell him that we don't exchange foreign coin just paper money. He goes crazy and demands a boss. Lucky for him the cage manager just happened to be in. But from what I've noticed she's really bad handling customers who are upset.

I got my superivsor first and she told him what I did and he got even more angry and that's when SV called over cage manager--CM.

CM: As we have all explained sir, we do not take foreign coin.

SC: It's CURRENCY. Your bored says the exchange rate for CURRENCY. (he says currency really slow like we're idiots) I don't see a sign saying except coin! You stupid F***.

Yes, he used the f word as much as possible.

CM: Right. But we can only do the paper money.

SC: You take your money to the bank right?

CM: Yes, we send it in... But they have advised us that they will only accept paper money.

SC: This is Bullshit! Cuss, cuss, bitch moan! You're useless, you idiot!

CM starts to walk away and says she refuses to stand there and argue with the guy.

SC: You halfwit!

Me: .... with a glare.

What a jerk. Now, he cashed out ninety dollars in chips. If we had done the coin it would have been... wait for it.... Three dollars and sixty cents. Dumbass.

I couldn't figure out why they didn't call security and have this ass taken out of the casino.

[AnaKhouri]

Anytime I have ever exchanged money, they only do bills. This goes for banks and those airport places too. What a moron!

[Marnier]

I worked at a bank and in most cases, the Federal Reserve that the banks send the money to won't take foreign coins.

[Mongo Skruddgemire]

Out of intense curiosity, why won't the banks take coin? If I go to exchange X countries money for Y countries money, and the exchange is 1 "X" gets you 1.5 "Y", they will give me one "Y" and the equal in coin to the .5 of "Y".

You're saying that when I return with 1.5 "Y", they won't take the coin so I can get my one "X" back?

[mikoyan29]

I think one of the nitpicky definitions of currency is just paper money. So technically, you're sign and policy are the same.

Some banks will take foreign coins especially if they are from a country that lots of people will go to.

In my case, I just kept my Japanese coins.

[Cia]

I was told once that it was because coins are heavier than paper.

[Anakah]

I honestly have no idea why coins aren't accepted but it wasn't worth getting that upset over. I'm sure if he weren't such a jerk we may have given him the 3.60 and just taken it as a customer dispute but he went into crazyville and took it that extra ass mile.

Why don't they learn that if you're nice about it, you're more likely to get your way? Become an ass, and we're done.

[bunnyboy]

Depending on the bank/institution, the reason they don't take coins is they're basically losing money. Though coins seems odd, I guess I must just be a weirdo who likes collecting coins and has been thinking about sneaking out the 10 p coin we somehow happened to get at work.

[AccountingDrone]

Depending on the bank/institution, the reason they don't take coins is they're basically losing money. Though coins seems odd, I guess I must just be a weirdo who likes collecting coins and has been thinking about sneaking out the 10 p coin we somehow happened to get at work.

I love odd coins, was great when mrDrone was in the Navy, he would bring back french, british, italian, norwegian and german coins. I used them to teach various goddaughters to count and then I would drill them and make jingley middle eastern dance belts for them. I think I still have some french and german coins hanging around. I know I have about 60 euros in current cash for my next trip =)

[Salesmonkey]

Just call them fake. "I can't take this coin/bill it's counterfiet"

No it's not! It's a perfectly good Norwegian kroner!

Are we in Norway? It looks fake to me. If you don't like our refusal to take your crazy money, call the Secret Service and/or Department of the Treasury.

[AccountingDrone]

Just call them fake. "I can't take this coin/bill it's counterfiet"

No it's not! It's a perfectly good Norwegian kroner!

Are we in Norway? It looks fake to me. If you don't like our refusal to take your crazy money, call the Secret Service and/or Department of the Treasury.

but a 1 kroner is perfect to swap in for a quarter in a shopping cart ...

[taxguykarl]

I love odd coins, was great when mrDrone was in the Navy, he would bring back french, british, italian, norwegian and german coins. I used them to teach various goddaughters to count and then I would drill them and make jingley middle eastern dance belts for them. I think I still have some french and german coins hanging around. I know I have about 60 euros in current cash for my next trip =)

Mrs. TGK has a charm bracelet of coins from our foreign travels...so far, Jamaican, Cayman and Mexican--Bahamian after this week.

[Primer]

In the early '80's, I worked in the money room of a vending machine company. One of our routes included the local Air Force Base. They guys would come back from TDY and pump all their left over foreign coins into the machines.

When I first started, I asked the boss what I was supposed to do with them, and he told me to toss them in the trash, as we never got enough of any one kind to make it worthwhile to take in for exchange. I asked if i could keep them, instead, and he said I could. I now have coins from all over the world. Panamanian quarters and nickels most resemble our own. Those were difficult to sort out before they hit the deposit bags.

The most amazing coins I got (paid face value for) were 4 Liberty quarters that someone dropped into a cigarette machine. I guess that nicotine fit was a bad one!

[AccountingDrone]

Mrs. TGK has a charm bracelet of coins from our foreign travels...so far, Jamaican, Cayman and Mexican--Bahamian after this week.

I am headed to Puerto Rico, Haiti, Dominica and St Thomas in Feb, want me to save some spare change?

[nuthing12]

Sounds like your CM doesn't have a spine if she's willing to take that abuse.