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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 164839, member: 66&quot;]You could possibly get away with that with the cents since no vending machines take cents anymore.&nbsp; But you would have some problems with the five cent.&nbsp; these coins would have to work interchangably with the current coins in vending machines.&nbsp; The coins are normally passed through a magnetic field&nbsp; and the electromagnetic properties of the coin would distort the field in known ways resulting in a specific signal.&nbsp; One other function of the field is to reject steel slugs.&nbsp; This would cause them to reject a copper clad steel coin.&nbsp; Another problem is that the new coin needs to be the same size and weight that the machine expects the nickel to be.&nbsp; A copper clad zinc or copper clad steel&nbsp; would be lighter than the current nickel and would be rejected.&nbsp; Or if they were reprogramed to recognize the new coin, the old nickels would be dumped to the coin return.&nbsp; Of course it would be possible to design and program a coin mechanism that would work with both, but it would mean that every vending machine in the country would have to have their coin mechanism replaced.&nbsp; Just wait for the screams over that one.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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