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United Coin Machine Co. is a 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== United Coin was founded in 1958. 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. Advanced Patent Technology purchased the company in 1979.〔 〕 In 1980, Advanced Patent reached an agreement to sell United Coin to Bristol Silver Mines Co. for $13 million in cash and stock.〔 〕 Advanced Patent withdrew from the offer three months later, though, saying that United Coin was now "more desirable".〔 〕 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. Alliance canceled the deal a year later due to increased profits at United Coin. In 2004, Century Gaming bought United Coin for $100 million cash plus $5 million in assumed debt.〔 〕 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. In July 2014, the company dropped the United Coin name and rebranded its operations in Nevada and Montana as Century Gaming Technologies. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「United Coin Machine」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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