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2. Currency detector - Wikipedia

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   A currency detector or currency validator is a device that determines whether notes or coins are genuine or counterfeit.These devices are used in a wide range of automated machines, such as retail kiosks, supermarket self checkout machines, arcade gaming machines, payphones, launderette washing machines, car park ticket machines, automatic fare collection machines, public transport ticket ...

3. Vending machine - Wikipedia

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   A snack food vending machine made in 1952 Gashapon vending machines Newspaper vending machines in Munich, Germany An automobile parking ticket machine in the Czech Republic. A vending machine is an automated machine that dispenses items such as snacks, beverages, cigarettes, and lottery tickets to consumers after cash, a credit card, or other forms of payment are inserted into the machine or ...

4. Gashapon - Wikipedia

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   Gashapon machines are similar to the coin-operated toy vending machines seen outside grocery stores and other retailers in other countries. While American coin-operated vending toys are usually cheap, low-quality products sold for a few quarters ( US$1 or less), Bandai's gashapon can cost anywhere from ¥ 100 ( US$ 0.91) to ¥ 500 ( US$ 4.56 ...

5. Multi-Drop Bus / Internal Communication Protocol - Wikipedia

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   MDB originated as a proprietary bus used by CoinCo for their coin-acceptors in the late 1980s and was deployed in high volume in vending machines for Coca-Cola.Coke forced CoinCo to open-source it in 1992 to increase competition, and NAMA released the first version of the standard in 1995, allowing other vendors to compete for the coin-acceptor portion of the vending machines (CoinCo and Mars ...

6. Capsule toy - Wikipedia

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   There are also other types of vending machines where coins are inserted, just like regular vending machines. These boxed toy machines with mechanisms like pulling a lever, kiddie rides , game machines (guaranteeing a prize of equivalent value), and in the past, there were even life-size hero figure machines (with theme music playing as capsules ...

7. 50 Inventions From The Past That Were Amazingly Innovative - AOL

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   Yep, people back then would insert a coin and receive just the right amount of holy water from temples in Egypt.While the vending machine might seem like a fairly modern invention, it’s actually ...

8. Bulk vending - Wikipedia

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   Bulk vending machines are susceptible to fraud. Unlike other vending machines, most bulk vending machines do not read coins' "metallic signature," and a worthless token of the same size as a coin (e.g. a wooden nickel or a washer) can, in most cases, operate a bulk vending machine equally as well as a coin can.

9. 10 Rare Coins Expected To Soar in Value in the Next Five Years

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   Most of these double dies (basically a misaligned striking of a coin, resulting in a duplicate image) from 1955 were distributed as change from cigarette vending machines. Doubling on the numbers ...