exchange French commemoratives into cash

Hello,

I have some French 100 EUR silver coins, no really rare ones, though.

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As the silver content is way below face value, I consider to get rid of them, hopefully at face value, and not keep them.

Is anyone aware where in France I could exchange those coins into cash (without having a French bank account)?

I am there once in a while in various places.

I did not find any information with Banque de France or Monnaie de Paris and would rather not try to pay with them in some shop…

Thank you for any advice.

Regards

Why do you have to be in France to exchange them? They're Euros, try your local bank. 

Also not having a French bank account shouldn't be an issue in Europe I would think. Earlier this month I had sent Norwegian Kroner to NorgesBank from the UK and it still went into my British bank account no problem (minus a tiny fee for currency conversion). 

Sadly it is not that easy.

I can not exchange them here in Germany, as commemorative coins from other countries are no legal tender here.

Same other way round, no French bank would accept German or other Euro commemoratives.

Of course everyone accepts the standard French or German Euro circulation coins, that is not the issue.

And not having a French bank account might be an issue. Typically banks only provide services to their customers and not for walk-ins.

It might be a solution to send those coins to somewhere and receive money into my German account, as you did with Norway.

But that is exactly my question, where this “somewhere” is.

Thank you.

Try here:

https://www.pagesjaunes.fr/annuaire/rue-de-richelieu-paris-75/monnaies-medailles

Hi,

you mean go to a coin dealer and sell there?

Little trouble: no serious coin dealer will offer me anything close to face value for such a coin if they cannot get face value somewhere.

Of course it would be easy to sell such coins close to their silver value, I would not even need a coin dealer to do so.

Maybe I worded my question in a confusing way: 

Is there any place where I can exchange French commemoratives for their face value?

Thank you

How many have you got because I might be able to take one or two off your hands by either swapping some KCIII or Scottish notes (I do know a dealer who can get Scottish notes for 50p-£2 above face) if I’m able to aquire more or by posting to you Euro notes which until May I did have some. 

Bavariat

Sadly it is not that easy.

I can not exchange them here in Germany, as commemorative coins from other countries are no legal tender here.

Same other way round, no French bank would accept German or other Euro commemoratives.

Of course everyone accepts the standard French or German Euro circulation coins, that is not the issue.

 

And not having a French bank account might be an issue. Typically banks only provide services to their customers and not for walk-ins.

 

It might be a solution to send those coins to somewhere and receive money into my German account, as you did with Norway.

But that is exactly my question, where this “somewhere” is.

 

Thank you.

So a common currency is not really ‘common’? 

It is common for the regular circulating coins, 1 Cent to 2 Euros ( incl. 2 Euro commemoratives having the same design on one side) and the banknotes.

It is not common for all the stuff that some marketing and profit driven companies 

sell by licence of the local governments. France and Monnaie de Paris is the best example for that.

Can they be cashed in at Bank of France for their face value, I wonder.

That would indeed be the question. I did not find any information…

Have you already asked in the French form? That's where the people are that should know it.

 Indeed. 

https://fr.numista.com/forum/forum6.html 

Plane ticket from Berlin to Paris is 75 euros. 2 hour flight. Depends how many 100 euros you have.

Or figure out how to get to 39 Rue Croix des Petits Champs, Paris from your place.

If you do not want to spend them in French shop, I suspect that any French bank in France should accept them. Wissembourg, Strasbourg or Metz are closer than Paris.

Thank you for the information.

Indeed the address you quote looks good - at least on google maps you can see a door sign “Caisse de France”. Might be an option to try there, when needed again. 

The issue was not how to get to Paris - basically even more so not from Berlin. And I know for sure that French banks do not exchange coins for people just walking in,  if you have no account with them. Funny enough I also tried in Wissembourg which is right across the boarder from Germany…