New polymer 50 and 100 baht notes coming in November

[Gaybutton]

I also have paper 100s that are obviously brand new. I think they have been around for quite some time, but did not get distributed until now.

To this day I have had a grand total of 2 of the plastic 100s and none of the plastic 50s at all. But I have had only two or three of the 50s in the past several months. I very rarely get them.

Regarding coins I haven't seen any satang coins in quite some time. I think it has been about 2 years, maybe more since I last saw any. Have they stopped making them? I would think so. They are essentially worthless. But I have hundreds of them. When they were common in change I used to put them in an old coffee can and never got around to cashing them in. I must have several hundred baht worth of them in that can and now I have no idea if I can cash them in anywhere. Who would want them? If I remember correctly banks won't even take them.

Maybe if anyone still has that can, perhaps a few hundred years from now they might be worth something as collectors items, kind of like any well preserved ancient Roman coins with the image of Tiberius or Augustus would be worth quite a bit now, a couple thousand years later. I wonder if 2000 years from now there will still be humans around to collect them. The way things are going, by then humans could easily have become extinct . . .

[Jun]

Regarding coins I haven't seen any satang coins in quite some time. I think it has been about 2 years, maybe more since I last saw any. Have they stopped making them? I would think so. They are essentially worthless. But I have hundreds of them. When they were common in change I used to put them in an old coffee can and never got around to cashing them in. I must have several hundred baht worth of them in that can and now I have no idea if I can cash them in anywhere. Who would want them?

I've been getting satang as change from Friendship supermarket.

As for getting rid of them, well Tops have a new store in The Royal Garden Plaza. There are 4 self service tills, two of which take cash. I successfully dumped about 5 trips worth of satang into those. I just emptied the bag into the coin chute.

They also work the other way, for breaking a 1000, without the machine ever saying "you have smaller?"

I assume there must be other stores with self service tills, although far from common.

[Gaybutton]

I assume there must be other stores with self service tills, although far from common.

A Tops near me has them. I suppose this is stupid of me, but it never even occurred to me they might take cash - and even if it did I doubt it would have occurred to me that they take coins too. I always pay by QR code.

I'll have to take a closer look next time. You said two out of the 4 you saw take coins. I hope the ones near me do. Only 2 machines in that store.

I wouldn't mind at all getting rid of my satang that way. Let them be the ones who have to worry about it. If whoever deals with those machines is lazy, they can take all the coins to another Tops and dump them into their machine . . .

[Gaybutton]

For the polymer 100 baht notes, so far I have received a grand total of 2. For the 50 baht notes, which I rarely receive in the first place, I have received none of the polymers, but in all this time since November I have only received 50 baht notes at all twice - both paper.

[Jun]

The self service tills are another productivity failure.

The Tops store has 2 which take cash and 2 which don't. I quite often arrive and find errors on all 4 machines, due to a combination of clunky software or error by previous users.
I wave one of the ladies over to fix it and after that they then start to scan my goods. On a self service till !

I have to point out that it's self service and send them away to fix the other tills, which should be their first priority.

[Montree]

I find the polymer 100 Baht notes tend to stick together if you get a fresh batch out of a machine. Several times I've nearly paid with two notes stuck together.

[Gaybutton]

I find the polymer 100 Baht notes tend to stick together

I have had the same problem with the 20 baht notes, even when they have been getting old. Polymer is fine for keeping these bills lasting a long time, but yes, you need to be extra careful handling them to be sure you're not unintentionally giving quite a tip. Maybe that's why they're not making polymer 1000 baht notes - at least not yet . . .