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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;NeonBlurb, post: 2320552, member: 74855&quot;]Electronics being what they are, it is a lot easier to design a module for vending machines that can authenticate coins of varying sizes and denominations now than it used to be.</p><p><br /></p><p>These days, you can have a module the size of a deck of cards which can measure, thickness, diameter, inductance, mass, albedo, and a myriad of other parameters of every coin that passes through it.</p><p><br /></p><p>And such a coin authentication machine can be remotely programmable.&nbsp; It really doesn&#039;t matter what size or composition coins Uncle Sam comes up with.&nbsp; Just program the necessary parameters into the coin authentication module.&nbsp; All modern vending machines have a lot of electronic connectivity anyway because they are set up for credit card transactions.</p><p><br /></p><p>Coin authentication really isn&#039;t a giant conundrum.</p><p><br /></p><p>I could go 30 years between redesigns but let&#039;s not go for a century with the same couple of dudes leering back at us when we pull change out of our pockets.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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