Comments on: Are Dollar Coins Forcing Costly and Useless Vending Machine Changes? https://www.coinnews.net/2007/12/04/are-dollar-coins-forcing-costly-and-useless-vending-machine-changes-3859/ CoinNews delivers the latest World and US coin news Tue, 10 Jan 2017 22:30:44 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: CoastalMaineiac https://www.coinnews.net/2007/12/04/are-dollar-coins-forcing-costly-and-useless-vending-machine-changes-3859/#comment-194280 Tue, 10 Jan 2017 22:30:44 +0000 http://www.coinnews.net/2007/12/04/are-dollar-coins-forcing-costly-and-useless-vending-machine-changes-3859/#comment-194280 All the focus on dollar coins these days, why does the 50¢ piece get no loving? A soda from the machine at work costs exactly $1.50. The machine will take a $1 bill or coin and two 25¢ coins, but it will not take a 50¢ coin! It’s just plain silliness, if you ask me. Every item in that machine is $1.50, but the machine will not accept the coin and dispenses two quarters whenever someone pays with $2.

I wonder if it has occurred to them that they wouldn’t have to refill the coin tubes as often if they used halves instead of quarters when making change.

]]> By: Mr. M https://www.coinnews.net/2007/12/04/are-dollar-coins-forcing-costly-and-useless-vending-machine-changes-3859/#comment-336 Sat, 08 Dec 2007 16:49:29 +0000 http://www.coinnews.net/2007/12/04/are-dollar-coins-forcing-costly-and-useless-vending-machine-changes-3859/#comment-336 I can understand Coca Cola’s concern. In a way this law for them and similar vendors would be a sort of a step backwards in common sense. They’d have to fill their machines with more money than they had before, making the machines a more worthwhile target for vandals and thieves.

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