Why no Dimes?
December 1st, 2012 at 9:55:00 AM
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Why do casino coin counters not do dimes? The simple answer that there are no dime slot machines doesn't work for me. Why would casinos ask the machine companies to make a special machine just for them? It would cost more. Also, if I go to a casino with all the loose change I have been accumulating, wouldn't they want to make it easy for me to convert it into a more spendable form? Especially all those dimes I can't use in their machines anyway. Just wondering.
December 1st, 2012 at 10:10:16 AM
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Huh? The two times I have had casinos convert my coins (as recently as August), they included dimes, and I had no problem.
December 1st, 2012 at 10:28:55 AM
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Maybe things have changed. A few years back I took in a bunch of coins and they gave me bills for everything else but gave me back my dimes and one Canadian quarter.
December 1st, 2012 at 11:26:28 AM
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It's not so much that the had coin counters especially designed to not accept the dimes. It's an option of the machines what types of coins it is expected to count. The same machines could easily be configured for foreign currency.
As such, they simply were set up to accept nickels, quarters, dollars, and whatever other coins/tokens they use for higher denominations.
The reason they do this is simple: Since they don't use dimes, they don't want you bringing them in from home to be counted. That would just create more work for them to send them to the bank, etc.
As such, they simply were set up to accept nickels, quarters, dollars, and whatever other coins/tokens they use for higher denominations.
The reason they do this is simple: Since they don't use dimes, they don't want you bringing them in from home to be counted. That would just create more work for them to send them to the bank, etc.
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December 2nd, 2012 at 1:35:59 AM
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I looked at my general gambling notes. The best reason I can come up with is that during "the impressment" era two "facts" seemed to stand out above others.
1.) The physical coin is small and thin, and could jam machines more easily, quite the tactic for a PO'ed slot player... but generally a source of pay-in coins causing trouble. Once the coin gets to impressment, culls can be weeded out. In a word expensive.
2.) The denomination itself falls under the unwritten "chip rule" in that you generally don't see any $10 chips on the tables, when the "de facto" standard is 1-5-25. Here the coinage follows the same principle. Just an unnecessary denomination.
Now having said that, and knowing we're dealing with physical coins being played, paid, and impressed, I see absolutely no reason for TITO machines not to be denominated 1-5-10-25-50-$1. I view this as carry-over from the impressment era. I note that my "Play for fun" experiences at on-line sites almost always include a 10c denomination for slots, and oddly, NOT video poker.
Cheers!
1.) The physical coin is small and thin, and could jam machines more easily, quite the tactic for a PO'ed slot player... but generally a source of pay-in coins causing trouble. Once the coin gets to impressment, culls can be weeded out. In a word expensive.
2.) The denomination itself falls under the unwritten "chip rule" in that you generally don't see any $10 chips on the tables, when the "de facto" standard is 1-5-25. Here the coinage follows the same principle. Just an unnecessary denomination.
Now having said that, and knowing we're dealing with physical coins being played, paid, and impressed, I see absolutely no reason for TITO machines not to be denominated 1-5-10-25-50-$1. I view this as carry-over from the impressment era. I note that my "Play for fun" experiences at on-line sites almost always include a 10c denomination for slots, and oddly, NOT video poker.
Cheers!
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