Vintage Coin-Op Machines

Coin-operated machines, toys, and games (also known as coin-op or just coin op) range from cash registers and pinball machines to piggy banks and jukeboxes. Today, most monetary transactions occur with the swipe of a card, but in the early part of the 20th-century, the coin-op industry was so powerful, it briefly delayed the design of the Liberty Head nickel. The simplest coin-operated machine is not even a mechanical one. It’s called a Continue Reading