Dual Priced coin drops

[laundryBoy]

Does anyone have experience with the quarter and dollar coin - coin drops?

I'm looking at a new changer that dispenses both quarter and dollar coins. I have seen the set-o-matic mechanisms and thought it would be more convenient to deal with less coinage.

I'm still not sold on the card systems.

[Anonymous]

How many dollar coins do you see in circulation? People hate them and don't use them. I think I read recently that the government has stopped producing them for general circulation and is only supplying them to the casino industry.

[mike]

Nobody used them in canada either, until the government stopped printing 1 dollar bills. A couple of years after that, they stopped printing 2 dollar bills, and gave us a 2 dollar coin, I guess the fives are next.
Of course in canada our government doesn't listen to the people ! (they don't have to, we don't have guns :-)

[Ken]

ESD has doul coin mech for a long time.I know a laundromat chain
use SBA coin and quarter in Chicago for a long time.They painted SBA coin blue.SBA coin is the same size as new gold dallor coin.
I don't like the system since I can not weight the coins,have to run through the coin counter.

[buddy]

Wouldn't you spend more time separating quarters and dollars when you empty machines. How about Dryers would they take dollar coins also?.

[pete f]

I have looked into this a little. Some Rowe changers, the double hoppers, can make them give say, $5 quarters, $5 dollar coin for a ten. Dexter has told me thye are working on a dual drop. IPSO has one, but at $175 ea not in the game. IPSO and dexter use the same coin drop. I had not seen the set-o-matic drop. I wil look into it. Part of my thinking was I was going to use tokens for the $1 payout. That way I could use a credit/debit card system at the coin changer. Still bulky, still looking.. 25k for cards will end up in a new boat first..