Collecting vintage coin-operated systems can add up to lots of fun. Here’s what you need to get started.

The noise is unmistakable, though it’s heard at fewer and fewer casinos these days. Clank-clank-clank-clank-clank. That’s the sound of money — metal coins hitting a metal tray — signifying slot or ...

A well-maintained coin-operated laundromat can provide its owner with many years of nearly effortless income. Not only can the business generate income from its coin-operated washers and dryers; it ...

Circus Circus has expanded on its status as the only Strip casino still offering coin-operated slot machines by installing $5 coin machines to go alongside its $1 machines. The slots are a throwback ...

Coin-operated machines have a longer history than you might think. Ancient temples used them to dispense, for example, holy water to the faithful in return for their coins. Old payphones rang a bell ...

Morphy Auctions, the Denver-based auction house, will host a three-day auction May 4-6 featuring more than 2,100 19th-century and early 20th-century antique coin-operated arcade, music, gambling, ...

If ever-improving technology couldn’t make coin slot machines extinct in Las Vegas, a pandemic wasn’t going to either. Because of a nationwide coin shortage brought on by business closures out of ...