Cash-handling specialist Azkoyen used this autumn’s FER-Interazar expo in Madrid to showcase what it called the “machine of the future”, combining multiple technologies to automate the checking and processing of cash paid into amusement systems.

A recycler is used to count and store inserted bank notes before paying them out again as prizes. An electronic scale provides the operator with real-time information on the value of coins held in the machine’s hoppers, while digital processing improves and speeds up the process of verifying denominations and ensuring that cash is not counterfeit.