Currency exchange for coins around Berlin?

honestly coins are a pain here. if you know anyone with a berlin-based sparkasse account, they can dump them in the coin counting machines at a branch for free and then just hand you the cash. no account? they'll take a 5% cut or so. there's a wechselstube right next to alexa mall that might help, but i've never tried with coins there. your best bet is probably just finding a swiss tourist near brandenburger tor and offering a friendly trade lol

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The Swiss embassy won't do it, they deal in diplomatic stuff not pocket change. What you can try is the Reisebank inside the Hauptbahnhof, they have coin counting machines for a fee, about 5-7% last I checked. If you're near Friedrichshain, there's a little Wechselstube on Warschauer Strasse near the Spree that sometimes takes coins if you're friendly, but call ahead first, they're hit or miss. Otherwise, honestly, just use the coins at a Späti or kiosk for small purchases, it's less hassle than the fees.

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If you're near Friedrichstrasse, the exchange office inside the Galeries Lafayette basement is usually willing to count coins, especially if it's not a huge pile. Just be aware they take a small commission on coin exchanges, around 3-5% depending on the amount. Alternatively, some of the smaller Turkish-run exchange shops in Neukölln along Karl-Marx-Strasse are more flexible with coins than the big bank kiosks.

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Worth noting that Berlin street names have official umlaut and ß rules that trip people up, so a sign showing "Strasse" versus "Straße" is not actually a spelling error, just an older transcription. Same with "ue" versus "ü" (e.g. "Kantstrasse" vs "Kantstraße"), both are considered valid renderings and you'll see the ß version on the blue Schilder and the ss version on older plaques or in databases that predate Unicode. If the difference you're seeing is between those two forms, there's nothing to fix and both are technically correct.

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if the signs u mean are the old enamel ones on the house facades those are often protected as Baudenkmal so nobody's allowed to correct them even if the spelling is outdated. the binding version is whatever is in the Berliner Strassenverzeichnis plus the entry in the Liegenschaftskataster, so if u tell me the street i can point u to the right Bezirksamt Mitte or Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf page. tbh the merged district thing is real but the facade signs are a separate story, theyre basically museum pieces at this point

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honestly thats super common in Charlottenburg, the district offices were merged from older Bezirke and nobody ever fixed all the Schilder. if its a real street you can check the official strassenverzeichnis on berlin.de, that list is what the Burgeramt actually goes by. which street is it? some of the Kaiserdamm / Kantstrasse signs are notorious for this.

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