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The History Of Slot Machines
Slot machines or fruit machines, as they are known in England, have been around for over one hundred years. This is because of the excitement that they bring to the player. With each individual pull or game, there is a chance of hitting the life changing jackpot. The first slot machine was the liberty bell which was invented by Charles fey a German immigrant who worked as a mechanic in San Francisco in 1899. All slot machines both at land based and online casinos have descended in some way from the original liberty bell machine.
The Liberty Bell slot machine had three spinning reels. Diamond, spade, and heart symbols were painted around each reel, plus the image of a cracked Liberty Bell. A spin resulting in three Liberty Bells in a row gave the biggest payoff, a grand total of fifty cents or ten nickels. Calculating odds in those days was easy. 3 reels with 10 potential stops give the following odds: 10 X 10 X 10 = 1000 combinations. Only 1 of those combinations yielded the big jackpot.
In 1902, Slot machines were banned in many states. Charles Fey then had to get creative. He changed the symbols on his machines and started offering candy, drinks, and gum as prizes. The owners of the machines that were already out redecorated the wheels with pictures of the gum and fruit instead of the card suits. Cherries have remained a constant on slot machines even today, and the sticks of gum eventually changed into the bars that you still see on a lot of common slot machines.
Slot machines were not really popular until the 1970’s in casinos. The older machines were limiting, because the biggest reels had only 25 different stops, which gave 15,624 to 1 chance of hitting a jackpot. The jackpot had to pay out less than that in order for the casinos to make enough profit for the slot machines to warrant that kind of floor space.
Then the pinball machine company Rally, invented a new slot machine that had both electronic AND mechanical parts. The newer machines also allowed for bigger bets and larger hoppers which could hold larger payouts. This made slot machines more profitable.
The random number generator became popular in the 1980’s and everything changed. The random number generator is basically a mini computer that simulates the sinning reels from a computer program. This changed the entire face of casinos. The reels could be much larger than the actual reels, since they were powered by a computer program instead of a mechanism. The spin arms became unnecessary, because the spin button activated the random number generator program and the machines paid out a preset percentage.
The new technology has made it possible for the machine manufactures to produce virtually a unlimited number of attractive and entertaining slot machine games. Slot machines now take up over 80% of many casinos’ floor space. It’s eye candy of the highest order, and gamblers gobble it up as if it were popcorn.
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 1890 Liberty Nickel PCGS MS 64 $265.00 (11 Bids) Time Remaining: 3d 20h 19m |
 1894 Liberty Nickel PCGS MS 64 $400.00 (12 Bids) Time Remaining: 3d 20h 24m |
 1905 Liberty Nickel PCGS MS 64 $102.50 (9 Bids) Time Remaining: 3d 20h 29m |
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 1886 LIBERTY V NICKEL KEY DATE VERY NICE WELL CIRCULATED COIN $10.52 (10 Bids) Time Remaining: 2d 20h 14m |
 Lustrous Nice Almost Uncirculated 1884 V or Liberty Head Nickel Better Date $27.00 (10 Bids) Time Remaining: 1d 19h 30m |
 1910 LIBERTY HEAD V NICKEL NGC MS64 $38.00 (3 Bids) Time Remaining: 3d 10h 19m |
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 NobleSpirit NO RESERVE DESIRABLE KEY DATE 1912 S Liberty 5c FULL VERY GOOD $102.52 (6 Bids) Time Remaining: 19h 21m |
 1894 Liberty Nickel F cleaned $35.00 (1 Bid) Time Remaining: 22h 17m |
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 1899 Liberty V Nickel NEAR GEM BU++ NICE $124.73 (33 Bids) Time Remaining: 4d 22h 17m |
 1885 Liberty Head Nickel Key Date Catalogue over 400 $21.05 (6 Bids) Time Remaining: 4d 21h 18m |
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1913 Liberty Head Nickel $70.1 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles The 1913 Liberty Head nickel is an American fivecent piece which was produced in extremely limited quantities without the authority of the United States Mint, making it one of the bestknown and most coveted rarities in American numismatics. In 1972, one specimen of the five cent coin became the first coin to command a price of US100,000; in 1996, another specimen would become the first to break the milliondollar barrier. It is also rumored that if one were to be found in perfect condition, it could be worth over 20 million dollars. In 2003 one coin was sold for almost US3 million. In 2010, the Olsen piece sold for US 3.7 million at a public auction. Only five examples are known to exist: two in museums and three in private collections. Author: Miller, Frederic P./ Vandome, Agnes F./ McBrewster, John Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 100 Publication Date: 2010/07/19 Language: English Dimensions: 5.98 x 9.01 x 0.23 inches |
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American Coin Treasures Titanic Nickel-1912 Liberty Head Nickel $37.4 This American Coin Treasures coin represents a tribute to that fateful day of April 12th, 1912 when the British luxury liner, the Titanic, hit an iceberg and sank. This commemorative coin is of the Liberty Nickel minted in 1912.Tribute to sinking of the TitanicCoin: Liberty NickelMinted in 1912 |
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