What happened to all the coins in casino slot machines when the casinos went to tickets instead of coins?

Question

a normal slot machine would hold atleast 1,000 nickles or quarters, plus whatever they had in the cage and you've got millions if not billions in coins in the casinos.

Answer 1

Most of the slots were simply reworked to accept only paper bills and tickets; the old classic coin hopper system now scrapped and made into scrap metal.  I'm sure the gaming industry got a HUGE metal recycling return for their efforts.

Years ago, a lawsuit crazy Civil Court nutjob tried to take on the gaming industry.  Their wackjob argument:  Casinos were negligent in the spread of disease by casino guest and employee handling coin currency. The lawsuit was laughed out of Nevada.   I heard the plaintiff was a recently fired casino employee; now he's nowhere to be found.

Nonetheless, casinos now find it not only sanitary to use coin free machines---it also makes counting $$$ much quicker as well.

Answer 2

I have also wondered why the casinos took away all of the coin machines. My guess is that they did it in order to save money. The casino floor staff is reduced a lot by eliminating the people that used to go around with the change carts, the entire crew of workers that used to go around emptying the machines, and a lot of the workers that would cash in the coin cups. The casino was able to replace those workers with a large bill change/ticket redemption machine.

Answer 3

scrap medal worth a lot more

than the coins

Answer 4

RECYCLED into metal. Lots and Lots and Lots of recycled metal. Probably the one good thing the casino industry has done. I miss the tinkling sound of the coins even though I dont play slots.