Your average mechanical coin mech looks at size- thickness and diameter, weight, metal properties, bounce - US coins are struck multiple times and sound different if dropped on a flat surface than tokens stamped once. etc. etc.

Some can be slightly adjusted but usually not much. You need the same size cradle as a token you'd consider.

Everything it looks at is critical. Or it jams, or gets rejected.

Check out Suzo-Happ for tokens and mechs. You'll find them other places too.

LTG : )™

You'd have to try and see.

LTG : )™

You can buy IOMEX mechs and adjust them for coin diameter. Suzo happ mechs require more adjustment but it can be done.

check this out:

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/how-to-adjust-a-coin-mech

http://www.rotheblog.com/2008/11/arcade/tutorial-change-your-coin-door-to-accept-tokens/

Sometimes you can get quarter mech lots cheap on Ebay, or elsewhere, so you can save some money by modifying them to take your tokens.

I ended up modifying mine. I bought some small nuts, bolts and washers, and cleverly placed them on my Quarter mech, all without permanently modifying it. I was able to make it accept pretty much any size of coin larger than a dime and smaller than a 1/2 dollar.

Coin mechs are super cool. Love taking things apart and playing with them. I spent probably an hour tinkering with mine to just figure out how it worked.

You'd have to replace or modify the slots and chutes on all your machines to use tokens that large. Most people probably don't want to deal with that, especially if they have a lot of games.

The largest token you can get away with without enlarging the slots and chutes is probably the QST (.984" quarter size tokens), although they are slightly larger than a quarter, and some games may need slight slot or chute enlargement to pass the token.

The QSTs also work in pachislo slots, and are the size Chuck-E-Cheese uses.

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