As useful as a 5 rappen coin

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I searched online about what to do with the useful 5 Rappen coins. Found out the following:

  • Automatic vending machines have no mandate to accept them since year 2006. So, they don’t accept them anymore.
  • PostFinance decommissioned machines that accepted them and credited customer’s accounts in 2022.
  • Apparently, Raiffesen and ZKB have machines that accept them but I don’t have an account there. And the article mentioning that is from 2022, so not sure if the info is up-to-date.

So, what do you do with the useful 5 cents coins?

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Pay cash

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shop at Lidl and demand the 1Rp coin back too.

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Some cantonal bank deposit machines still accept 5-ct/Rp coins, and I believe Coop’s self-checkout terminals do as well. However, since I’m currently in Chicago, I can’t confirm this firsthand at the moment.

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The COOP self service check-outs allow part-cash payments. So every once in a while I dispose of all my coins under a franc.

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I don’t feel passive-aggresive enough to pay with 5 cents coins at coop or migros. Maybe…I need to further work on my integration to local society :slight_smile:

@linnea_uzh , I’ll check the self-pay machines at coop, thanks.

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Yes, as I am not in Chicago but in actual Switzerland, I can confirm that ZKB has machines that accept them. (but apparently this piece of info doesn’t help you too much :slight_smile: )

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Just save them until you have a higher figure → like 5 CHF … and go pay with them at a cash store … I usually don’t use cash in CH

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You may be wrong here and I don’t blame you, I felt the same until two hours ago.

I was at Obi and paid cash. I mentioned the coins and she said she is always glad to get them, if I have any more she will gladly take them! So I poured out my wallet and she even counted it all for me and changed it.

And actually now that I write this, I remember when I handed over cash at my regular Migros a few weeks ago, the spontaneous reaction of the lady was “oh nice!”
They have no problem with cash and coins, on the contrary. It’s just the impatient people behind you who might have. Sod them, we invented self-check out for them, no?
I will definitely take this new knowledge into consideration from now on.

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I give mine to charity, I bung them all in the collection plate the Three Wise Men in Basel have every Christmas. They’re Rotary Club I think, the collection gets divided between 2 or 3 local charities every year.

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Same, and I don’t consider it passive-aggressive if I’m using a self-service till. There are usually plenty of them for others to move past me while I’m depositing a mountain of coins. :slight_smile:

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