Buying and selling non-US currency (€, ¥, £, etc.).

[randomness]

I buy cash--paper or coin--from various countries, so that I have some spending money when I arrive. Often people have some left over when they return from their trips abroad, and find that local banks give them lousy rates for their paper money, and won't take their coinage at all. I'll change both paper or coin, at the prevailing rates displayed on xe.com. We both win because neither of us gets charged commission and we exchange at a rate neither of us could get from a bank.

(ladybird97 calls me the International Bank of Leon. This amuses both of us.)

If you have less than $50 or so in non-US currency that you're interested in selling, I may be able to exchange it for US dollars. Drop a comment, let me know what you'd like to sell, and if it's a currency I think I can exchange, we can arrange to meet up.

With regard to buying some of my non-US currency: I have some Estonian krooni and some Hungarian forints to sell. If you are looking to buy other currencies I might be able to help you but I'll have to check. Let me know.

Comments

[coraline]

durnit, if i'd remembered the things were in my pocket this evening, i culd have sold them to you there. oops.
(i'm sure we'll see each other at some other point though, and they've been living in my wallet...)

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

Say, I never heard back about how much in forints and kuna you actually have...

[coraline]

15,000 forint, and 100 kuna :)

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

Wow, okay, I can't commit on that much until I know I'm actually going to go to Central Europe.

On the bright side, those two currencies have been rising against the dollar lately, so you've been making money...