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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Fire Lad, post: 1244814, member: 32621&quot;]Wow, First day on and I actually get to help someone. I worked in the vending industry for 5 years full time and about 6 years part time. Had my own repair business for about 4 of those. Mostly ammusements, PINBALL was my fave- to work on and play. Back to your topic though, here is a web site to check out, <a href="http://www.coinco.com/coin/news/couponcraze.asp" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinco.com/coin/news/couponcraze.asp" rel="nofollow">http://www.coinco.com/coin/news/couponcraze.asp</a>, </p><p>hope the link works. also try google and more will come up. Bill Acceptors are able to accept $2 after programing. The Coin Mechanisms that are manfactured have never taken halves to my knowledge, though i did get a few that i dug out after some stubborn person insisted on jamming into the chute!(my gain!) The common rendition takes two quarters. There was a huge push back in 79 during the SBA release and just prior to push the current $ coin as well. it never took off and we are faced with what we have now millions of coins that no one spends. No doubt the paper company and some lobbiest have allot to do with that( sorry no <font size="3"><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Calibri">Politics!) </font></span></font>. I spent some time in Germany back in the late 80&quot;s (army) for a few years and the $2 bill was a main staple from the US GI&#039;s. Germany also utilized many coins in lieu of paper. They had a 5 mark bill but it was scarce. the coins really caught on over there. Hope I helped! PS- Be careful the vending industry is a difficult one to thrive in and will take you broke at the blink of an eye! there is a hughe amount of overhead and good accounts are hard to come by. GOOD LUCK!</p><p>Newer electronic coin mechs in vending/snack/soda/cold food can take $ coins but like stated above some switches need to be turned on.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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