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Silver in Slot Machines

obleftobleft Posts: 72
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Anyone have any idea how much silver is used to manufacture a slot machine?

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  • AUandAGAUandAG Posts: 24,760 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Zero in antique slots.

    Maybe a bit in the greenboard in modern slots but probably not enough to mess with on
    a small scale. On a large scale you have other issues with pollution and complying with
    gov't regs.

    bob
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  • OPAOPA Posts: 17,119 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Most likely more gold than silver, but nothing to get excited over.
    "Bongo drive 1984 Lincoln that looks like old coin dug from ground."
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    More likely gold on the printed circuit contacts, but not any silver. Silver tarnishes too fast and causes electrical problems. Cheers, RickO
  • MsMorrisineMsMorrisine Posts: 33,019 ✭✭✭✭✭
    how many do you have? and do you have photos? image
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  • FullCameoFullCameo Posts: 492
    I heard a story once of a guy who purchased 10 old slot machines filled with silver coins. But that was just a story. image
  • AUandAGAUandAG Posts: 24,760 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yep, I know the stories too about old silver in old slots.

    There is an old drugstore here in Nevada (won't disclose location!) that has the upper floor
    as a warehouse and has stored all their old slots there when they were replaced. Now the
    silver coin was taken out, I'm sure, but there might be a few just rattling around loose
    inside the boxes.

    bobimage
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  • mrcoin3mrcoin3 Posts: 384
    I buy and sell old mechanical slots. The most silver I ever found was $10 face in quarters in one of them.
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  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 28,307 ✭✭✭✭✭
    ive gotton silver in payouts before on the slot. most of them now went to paper so that eliminated plenty image
  • pontiacinfpontiacinf Posts: 8,915 ✭✭
    slots in CT pay out on paper now image
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  • AuAgPtAuAgPt Posts: 100
    It would be cool to see any old slot machines in a Vegas casino (know it won't happen, but the thought is nice). It would be even better to see some that accepted old silver dollars (I'm presuming those did exist 1960's and before?). I've read that the near reintroduction of the 1964 Peace Dollar was initiated by the casinos. --aap
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