coin boxes

Currency storage vessels

Coin boxes are containers designed to hold coins, typically for collection, storage, or payment.

The term appears most often in contexts involving pay telephones, parking meters, laundry machines, and other coin-operated devices: Someone broke into the coin boxes on the washing machines.

Coin boxes may also refer to collection boxes for charitable donations or hobbyist storage for coin collections.

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meters · pay phone · piggy bank · registers · depository · savings · tills · penny arcade · toll booth · laundromat · laundry room · washing machine · collection · donation · parking meter · parking garage · cash drawer · change

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Opposites
currency form stored

coin boxesbillfolds

Flat money carriers

wallets · money clips · card holders · purses · checkbooks

payment method era

coin boxesdigital wallets

Virtual payment storage

contactless payment · cryptocurrency wallets · Apple Pay · Venmo · Google Pay

storage vs. dispensing function

coin boxescoin dispensers

Mechanisms releasing metal currency

change machines · vending machines · parking meters · coin slots

Family

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Top 200,000
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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G