This information provided via the courtesy of Vintage Slots of Colorado, Inc.

If you have an antique coin machine and want to sell it, please send me an email. If I am not interested in it, I will forward your email to a collector who probably is.


The following information is the web version of Coin Op on CD which was a book all about antique coin machines and it was distributed on a CD-ROM. This book was written in 1995 and sold in 1996. Please take this into consideration when reading the articles. There are no plans to come out with version 2. However, we do plan on periodically updating the information on the web version.
The CD version of the book has pricing information as well as a dealer directory. Since the prices are out of date and many of the dealers/collectors may no longer be collecting the machine we have purposely left this information out of the web version. However, we do keep in contact with many dealers and collectors who are actively buying and selling machines and would be happy to put you in touch with one if you have a machine you are looking to sell.

If you are looking to purchase an antique coin machine you may also send me an email and I will put you in touch with a reputable dealer. Odds are, I will not be selling the machine you are looking for (since I rarely sell any machines).


The Mills Futurity is a great gimmick machine that actually has a built in cheating mechanism in it. If the player loses 10 times in a row he will get all of his money back. However, the machine was designed at the factory to "almost" guarantee that 2 cherries will come up on pulls number 5 and pulls number 10. Click here to see the reel strips for the Futurity. Pulls 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9 use the position 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 ... 20 and pulls 5 and 10 use position 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 .. 19. If you look closely you will see it is impossible to get a jackpot except on pulls 5 and 10 (there is no bar on the even positions of reel strip number 2). The same is true for the Gold Award jackpot.

I have been told the Futurity is the only slot machine banned in Nevada because of the way it cheats.

Other neat gimmick machines are the Pace Kitty and the Mills Horsehead Bonus.

Click here (warning, video files are very large, do not view if you are connected with a slow dial-up connection) to see a video of this machine being played.
More information can be found on page 162 of Marshall Fey's "Slot Machines" book and on page 49 of Bueschel's "Collector's Guide to Vintage Coin Machines" book and on page 136 of Bueschel's "Slots 1" book.