"shreadvector" wrote in message
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By the way, do the vending machines have stickers on them indicating
that customers can use the Golden Dollar? Are the coin slots adjusted
open larger than a quarter to allow dollar coins to be inserted? Many
older machines were set to block anything larger than a quarter from
entering and they often had the micro rocker switch set to "$ NO
ACCEPT" instead of "$ ACCEPT".

Why don't the vending machines have 4 coin tubes to accommodate 5c,
10c, 25c and $1 coins and have a bill validator set to accept $2, $5,
$10, and $20 bills and give change in dollar coins? That would help and
probably increase sales quite a bit. How many folks walk away from a
vending machine without making a purchase because all they had was a
$20 they got from the ATM????


How many folks walk up to a vending machine and can dig a dollar coin out of
their pocket? I'd bet you could stop ten people on the street and none would
have a dollar coin on them, whereas at least two thirds would have at least one
dollar bill crisp enough to be fed accepted in a vending machine. (No fair
doing it multiple times. I'm not that daring.) I still can't see these dollar
coins as anything more than Mint-produced tokens, if the only public place they
seem to be found is in some coin-op machines.

Bruce