Are you hoarding a bag or jar of coins at home and don’t know what to do with them? Hong Kong Free Press has partnered with Coin Dragon to allow readers to donate Hong Kong coins to support our operations.

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Coin Dragon’s rapidly growing network of exchange machines convert physical coins into Octopus card credit, bank deposits and non-profit/charitable donations. Click here for a map of kiosk locations.

How does it work?

  1. Select Hong Kong Free Press under the charitable donations button.  Read and accept the ‘Terms of Use’.
  2. Pour in your 10c, 20c, 50c, HK$1, HK$2 and HK$5 coins into the machine and watch the Coin Dragon kiosk count them. Accept/reject your final count.
  3. View/send your receipt.

Coin Dragon charges HKFP a 10 per cent admin fee. Visit the Coin Dragon website for more information, or follow them on Facebook.

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