Anyone Know If It's Possible To Convert Moldovan Leu To Stirling In London?

[Oiverbotel]

Hi!

Might anyone know where I could convert some Moldovan Leu in London? I have a handful and I'm hoping I don't have to travel back to Moldova in order to convert it!

The typical places: bank, post office, Travelex can't do it!

Thanks!

Ollie

[Buenchico]

I doubt that it's possible to change it but it might be worth asking their embassy staff. (After all, they may well have encountered the same problem themselves!). Contact details here:
http://www.rbkc.gov.uk/az/az.aspx?searchletter=G&orgid=5355

[Oiverbotel]

Thanks for that Buenchico. Actually, that was about the 4th place I checked. That is where I learnt that it's a restricted currency and ought not to have been taken out of the country. Mea Culpa!

I was just hoping someone might know one of those 'local' chaps somewhere around London where they more or less deal 'off the books' as it were, in sorting these things. I had a place to go to many years ago when the same situation applied to the old Polish złotych.

Thanks again!

Ollie

[Buenchico]

Try an email to [email protected]
That's the address for the Romanian & Moldovan Society at University College London. Their members might know of a way of exchanging their currency outside Moldova.

There also used to be a Moldovan café on Willesden High Road but I'm not sure whether it's still there or not.

[Oiverbotel]

Thank you SOOOo much Buenchico! I'll give them a shot. That was excellent sleuth work! Kudos and a few other salutations of gratitude!

Ollie!

[Peter Pedant]

yeah I was gonna say it is a typical soft currency and once changed youre stuffed.

In the country, they commonly say, change back at the airport and then when you get to the airport they say....

I still have some Hungarian Forint from god knows when

[Oiverbotel]

Thanks Peter! Indeed! I've written to the email addy Buenchico so kindly located for me and I'm waiting to hear back. As it was the bank holiday I suspect no one was around to reply. In the meantime, if you're interested, short of heading back to Budapest, I'd be delighted to recommend a charity where you can sent the Forint to where it would be wisely used. Thanks again!
Ollie