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<p>[QUOTE="scottishmoney, post: 1773363, member: 12789"]Hmm - I can remember slipping dollar bills into vending machines at work back in the late 1980s. Frankly I don't know why they even bother tooling the machines for nickels and dimes since practically nothing is priced in other than quarter multiples these days. I can even use Ukrainian hryven bills to buy small cups of coffee or tea, since hryvnia coins are very unpopular like the US dollar coin. </p><p> </p><p>The tech is there, but the vending machine industry would lead you to believe that it would be the ruin of them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="scottishmoney, post: 1773363, member: 12789"]Hmm - I can remember slipping dollar bills into vending machines at work back in the late 1980s. Frankly I don't know why they even bother tooling the machines for nickels and dimes since practically nothing is priced in other than quarter multiples these days. I can even use Ukrainian hryven bills to buy small cups of coffee or tea, since hryvnia coins are very unpopular like the US dollar coin. The tech is there, but the vending machine industry would lead you to believe that it would be the ruin of them.[/QUOTE]
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