interesting find.. alternative to quarters and no mech adjustment required

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interesting find.. alternative to quarters and no mech adjustment required

i was cleaning out an Atari system 1 cabinet and found 3 coins in the waaay back.. one was a 1989 quarter and the other two were Japanese 10 yen coins. i held them up to each other and they are damn near the same size. So i tossed one to my wife for the gumbally machine (which doesnt take tokens and it worked flawlessly.

now is there any place to buy 10yen coins dirt cheap? would be good for the games so i dont have to mod any mechs.. and the kids arent likely to put any in thier pockets because they arent quarters..
 
I found a 50 centavos coin from Peru in my token bin, same darn size. I use .900 tokens. I imagine those would be much cheaper than a quarter.
 
Looks like you can get them for about 10 cents a piece at the airport or something.
 
Coin mechs in video games are much pickier than coin acceptors in gumball machines. Try them in the video and see if they work.

That said, they probably will work - there are a fair number of foreign coins that work OK in old video game coin mechs. Newer ones are more accurate and less easily fooled.

Gumball machines, on the other hand... as long as it's roughly the same size as a quarter, it'll work just fine. In fact, if you take the top off a soda bottle, and cut the sides off with a pair of dikes, it'll work in a gumball machine.

-Ian
 
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