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| I once worked in the lab for a company that made the coin acceptors. They're very sophisticated nowadays.
This company had a room full of every single coin from every country in the world, and also had common blanks and a wide variety of fake coins, it's pretty rare this sort of thing happens nowadays. All sorts of things are tested, weight and size are the obvious ones, but also conductivity and other measures. But with so many coins some occasionaly get through, and someone always finds out.
I once held back an entire new line after figuring out a clever way to jam the mechanism, but I have no tips on defeating these things. | |
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would that have been mars? I used to own a games machine company in the uk, and spent many hours re-programming coin mechs everytime a new coin came out or was retired. re the fake £1 coins, they where easy for the mechs to spot, they where usually lead for a start, never had one fool any of our mechs, we did used to get some french francs get through but the dumb **** who stuck em in the machines didn't release they where worth more then the coin they where copying, so that didn't bother me at all
