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Currency exchange booths entirely reject coins

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You saved up all the loose metal jingling in your pocket to swap back into your home currency at the end of the trip. Surprise: exchange booths violently refuse them. Because heavy coins cost too much to ship back to their origin country, the clerks treat them like useless metal discs. Your leftover change is now a permanent, heavy souvenir.

Currency exchange booths entirely reject coins
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