While slugs are sometimes passed off to cashiers and other unwitting human recipients, they are more commonly used in automated coin-operated devices such as a vending machine, payphone, parking meter, transit farebox, copy machine, coin laundry, gaming machine, or arcade game. The object substituted may be an inexpensive object such as a washer or a coin from another country with far lower purchasing power than the coin it is being passed off as.
Object used as a counterfeit coin A plain metal washer, if of the correct size and weight, may be accepted as a coin by a vending machine.Ī slug is a counterfeit coin that is illegally used to make purchases.
