COIN-OPERATED machines like vending machines that dispense soft drinks or collect parking payments are commonly equipped with a mechanism to detect fake coins.
There will always be some who attempt to beat the system by using coin replicas but, in most cases, people are simply not aware that the coins they insert into the machine are fakes.
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