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| How prone are slot machines to being filled with counterfeit tokens or coins? I have myself received a few in the payouts that I received, but statistically few given how much I have played.
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| I would imagine it would depend on the age of the machine just like vending machines. Older machines aren't able to determine a real quarter from a fake one or a similar foreign coin as much as the newer ones that can tell immediately if its not a true American quarter.
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| How do they tell? Most go on size and weight alone, and you would think that it would be pretty easy to fake them on that basis alone. So how do newer ones do it?
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| I'm not really sure how do the slot machines identify the fake coins but from my readings, the basis of the slot machines is through the size and the weight. Although some slot machines also have some kind of electromagnet that gets only the real ones with some kind of magnet. The fake coins will just pass through and go straight out.
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| Coins are not of a-ack, I can't remember the name! But they don't get attracted by magnets! So I don't think it could be based on that.
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| My hubby used to play in an arcade station using our local coin instead of the token. The machine accepted the coin and he did it almost every day. It's a genuine money of our though but of a lesser value than the token.
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| That's the kind of thing I would worry about. As long as the coins are the same size and the same weight as the real thing, then generally they will be accepted. You could end up with almost anything in there.
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While this may not be the most perfect information it does back up what I know to be true from working in high volume food services for many years. paper counterfeiting is the only avenue left. Odd coind get pulled by the weigh counters for coins.
Counterfeit detector machines are used to find out whether or not a piece of currency is counterfeit or legitimate. Many of these devices can be found in vending machines as they accept payment and then dispense a product to a customer. However, they can also be found in many other machines such as change machines and slot machines in a casino.
The counterfeit detector machine uses a process that looks at the bill being inserted into the machine and running various tests to help determine if the bill is counterfeit or not. Since both paper money and coins have their own counterfeit parameters each machine needs to be individually programmed to check for the currency it is accepting.
If the currency is found to be legitimate the machine retains the bill in a storage device and provides you with your product. If the currency is found to be counterfeit then the machine will return the currency to you.
There are counterfeit detector machines designed specifically for paper currency which are called bill validators or bill acceptors. These types of machines scan the paper currency using both magnetic and optical sensors to check for counterfeit bills. There are various interfaces that can be used with these machines. Often times wrinkled or creased bills are returned to the customers because they are regarded as being counterfeit.
Then there are also specific counterfeit detector machines that are used to find counterfeit coins. These machines test the physical properties of the coin placed in the machine against the current coin composites. Most of these tests are performed using either a laser or electrical current, which has helped to eliminate the problem of people creating coins out of a cheaper metal and having them weigh the same as a legitimate coin. This is why many of the counterfeit currency today is paper and not coin, it is virtually impossible to create a counterfeit coin today.
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