where can I buy US currency in the form of coins?

[Elaine]

We'll be visiting Florida soon and have heard that you need lots of quarters for tolls.  Can i buy quarters in the UK to take with me, and if so where from?

Elaine

[desertrat]

Don't worry too much about quarters until you get there. Once you start shopping you will have a surplus of them. I usually just head into a shop at the airport and buy a bag of sweets to start of my small change collection. Most toll areas on the major routes I have gone through have at least one where you can hand over cash and get change. Although I would recommend that you request small denomination notes when getting your dollars. The toll operators are not keen in getting $20 notes from all the tourists coming out of the airport.

[Jules001]

when we went we flew into Sanford Airport not Orlando International Airport and being a smallish airport - I can't remember even seeing a shop, luckily my son had been to States with school on a skiing trip and had brought home some small change - although as we got lost and ended up going on more toll roads than we should have, the small change ran out fairly quickly, but as Desertrat said I suppose you could stop and buy something when you see a shop

[rekstout]

You should only need about $3-4 dollars in change and almost all toll plazas on between Sanford/Orlando International and the Kissimmee / International Drive / Lake Buena Vista tourist resort areas have staffed booths.  As suggested, ensure you have some singles in your hoilday money and buy gum or a paper in the iarport and you will soon have enough quarters.