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It is common to confuse the terminolgy when discussing coin acceptor products, here we discuss to clear the confusion by explaining some of the common terminology in detail. Coin Acceptor, Coin Selector, Coin Validator: These are all common terms to describe a device that reads and validates a coin (or token) and reports it's 'finding' via an interface (pulse/parallel, USB, MDB, etc) to a controller. The more simple of these devices will only validate 1 specific coin or tok