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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John the Jute, post: 570536, member: 17740&quot;]Any High Street bank will convert notes into coin for you at no charge. This is purely a change service, not a numismatic service, so the bags will contain a random mix of recent dated coins. This is primarily aimed, I believe, at shopkeepers who need change for their shop tills.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>They will probably like you better if you ask for a selection of full bags--which they will have ready at the bank till--rather than asking for an amount they will have to count out. The standard bag quantities are</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>£2 coins in bags of 10</p><p>£1 coins in bags of 20</p><p>50p coins in bags of 20</p><p>20p coins in bags of 50</p><p>10p coins in bags of 50</p><p>5p coins in bags of 100</p><p>2p coins in bags of 50</p><p>1p coins in bags of 100</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Even though central London is only a few tens of miles from the country of the Jutes, I have never bought coins there, so I cannot provide you with recommendations. What I can do is point you towards the British Numismatic Trade Association&#039;s website:</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://www.bnta.net/members.php" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.bnta.net/members.php" rel="nofollow">http://www.bnta.net/members.php</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>A search on &quot;London&quot; provides a list of 28 weblinks. Some of these, I am sure, will be mail order only and have no retail outlet; some will be primarily auction houses; some will be primarily bullion coin dealers; some will specialize in hammered coins, or Celtic coins, or ancients, or early milled, or what have you. I fear that, in the absence of guidance from a Londoner, you may have to spend a couple of hours surfing the options.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Later,</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>John[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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