"The Medway Handyman" wrote in message
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Colin Bignell wrote;

Mind you, if they do accept payment this way, which they don't have
to, they will probably have an automatic coin counter, which would
take between 30 and 60 seconds to check the lot.


Of course they have to - all the coins will be below the maximum for legal
tender.

Unless you know something I don't?

If you had read and understood my original reply to your post, you would
know the same. The Bank of England used to have a good explanation of legal
tender and its very limited meaning, but that link no longer works.

To put it simply: nobody, at any time, under any circumstances is under any
compulsion to accept any form of payment, simply because it complies with
the definition of legal tender.

In a settlement of a debt, which does not include the payment of a fine, an
offer to pay the exact amount in legal tender will protect you from future
civil action for non-payment, but there is still no requirement to accept
the payment.

Colin Bignell