United Coin Machine
Subsidiary
Industry	Casino games
Founded	1958
Headquarters	,
Key people	Bernard Shapiro
Parent	Century Gaming
Website	unitedcoin.com

United Coin Machine Co. is an American slot route operator based in Paradise, Nevada. It operates slot machines in locations such as bars, convenience stores, and grocery stores. It is owned by Century Gaming, a Montana-based slot route operator. For many years, United Coin was the largest slot route operator in Nevada.

History[edit]

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United Coin was founded in 1958.^[1] Bernard Shapiro, who had owned a coin machine business in Northern California, and a small stake in the Royal Nevada casino, started the company after the Royal Nevada went out of business.^[2]

Advanced Patent Technology purchased the company in 1979.^[3]

In 1980, Advanced Patent reached an agreement to sell United Coin to Bristol Silver Mines Co. for $13 million in cash and stock.^[4] Advanced Patent withdrew from the offer three months later, though, saying that United Coin was now 'more desirable'.^[5]

In 2000, United Coin's parent, now known as Alliance Gaming, agreed to sell the company for $112 million in cash plus $6 million in preferred stock to gaming developers Michael Luzich and Daniel Kehl.^[6] Alliance canceled the deal a year later due to increased profits at United Coin.^[7]

The machines are called gray machines because they operate in a gray area of the law. The games look and play like slot machines, though the manufacturers say there is an element of skill involved.

In 2004, Century Gaming bought United Coin for $100 million cash plus $5 million in assumed debt.^[8]

The company sold off its operations in Northern Nevada to another slot route operator in 2013, but then returned to the region in 2015, placing machines at a chain of sports bars.^[9]

In July 2014, the company dropped the United Coin name and rebranded its operations in Nevada and Montana as Century Gaming Technologies.^[10]

References[edit]

^Liz Benston (July 3, 2003). 'New owner to retain United Coin employees'. Las Vegas Sun. Retrieved 2014-06-01.
^Tex Maule (April 29, 1963). 'Players are not just people'. Sports Illustrated. Retrieved 2014-06-01.
^Robert Metz (September 3, 1980). 'Advanced Patent's future'. New York Times. – via Factiva (subscription required)
^'Advanced Patent says Bristol Silver Mines gets option for a unit'. Wall Street Journal. April 4, 1980. ProQuest134383954. – via ProQuest (subscription required)
^'Advanced Patent says SEC seeks information on stock sales'. Dow Jones News Service. July 2, 1980. – via Factiva (subscription required)
^'Las Vegas-based slot route operation sold for $118 million'. Las Vegas Sun. July 10, 2000. Retrieved 2014-06-01.
^David Strow (June 26, 2001). 'Financial turnaround prompts cancellation of slot route deal'. Las Vegas Sun. Retrieved 2014-06-01.
^Kevin Rademacher (July 1, 2004). 'Shake-up under way at Alliance'. Las Vegas Sun. – via Factiva (subscription required)
^Howard Stutz (March 3, 2015). 'Century Gaming wary of proposed new slot machine tax'. Las Vegas Review-Journal. Retrieved 2015-03-09.
^Howard Stutz (July 14, 2014). 'United Coin Machine changes name to Century Gaming Technologies'. Las Vegas Review-Journal. Retrieved 2015-03-09.

External links[edit]

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Slot machines hit jackpot in stores around Va.

Jeremy M. Lazarus | 7/12/2019, 6 a.m. | Updated on 7/12/2019, 7:37 p.m.

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Dr. Joann Henry plays at a bank of slot machines at the Quick N Easy convenience store in the 4100 block of West Broad Street. Jerermy Lazarus/Richmond Free Press

Andrea R. Hill is a self-confessed “slot machine grinder,” but she still hasn’t visited the new Rosie’s Richmond Gaming Emporium in South Side to try her luck on the array of slot-style machines.

Instead, the Richmond resident prefers to get her daily “gambling fix” at a convenience store near her job, the Quick N Easy in the 4100 block of West Broad Street.

Inside, past the chips and snacks and close to the coolers of beer and sodas, Ms. Hill has her choice of seven cash-operated, computer-controlled machines that mimic the push-button slots of Atlantic City and Las Vegas. The symbols revolve on the screen like slot machines.

Every now and then when the symbols line up right, a player can hit for a jackpot of $2,000.

The store has an arrangement that allows players to get their winnings almost immediately from a clerk.

“It’s fun and I win occasionally. Just the other day, I got a $120 jackpot, but it looks like I’ll be giving that back to the store,” said the 39-year-old pharmacy technician.

“Virginia has come a long way. When I was younger, I used to have to drive out of state to play. Now, these machines are everywhere.”

The convenience store, near Thomas Jefferson High School, is just one of the locations in which these machines have popped up in the past two years. Across the Richmond area and around the state, more than 4,000 similar machines can be found in gas stations, bars and mostly locally owned convenience stores eager for a new stream of revenue.

In a state that has long frowned on gambling, the Virginia Is for Gamblers movement is clearly moving beyond the state-run lottery and parimutuel betting on horse races.

The movement got a big boost two years ago when the General Assembly, seeking to revive horseracing, cleared the way for a $1 billion-plus operation involving machines like the ones at Rosie’s. Instead of random numbers, equipment at Rosie’s with slot-machine faces rely on the results of old races to fuel their results instead of random numbers that typical slots use, according to the regulatory Virginia Racing Commission.

But even before that action, ambitious private companies began exploiting a loophole in the anti-gambling laws in various states, most notably Duluth, Ga.-based Pace-O-Matic and its Richmond-based subsidiary, Queen of Virginia Skill and Entertainment, and Coleman Music and Entertainment of Jacksonville, Fla.

Those companies have been closely reading state laws on gambling to find a way to bypass them. In Virginia, they noticed the law only bans slot machines with three factors — a wager, the offer of a prize or cash and a win based solely on chance. Knock out one, and a machine can be legal.

And that’s what these companies say they are doing — creating machi

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