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Applicant\s invention includes a cash-alternative transaction processing system and associated methods based on the use of coin cards, purchase point coin card reader/writer transaction register systems, and clearing center processors. Also includes are elements relating to use of coin cards in vend

Applicant\s invention includes a cash-alternative transaction processing system and associated methods based on the use of coin cards, purchase point coin card reader/writer transaction register systems, and clearing center processors. Also includes are elements relating to use of coin cards in vending machines.

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A method for processing transactions comprising the steps of: interfacing a plurality of coin cards with a plurality of coin cards reader/writer, said coin cards having electronically recorded in coin card memory means primary card data which, according to a protocol and at least until said interfac

A method for processing transactions comprising the steps of: interfacing a plurality of coin cards with a plurality of coin cards reader/writer, said coin cards having electronically recorded in coin card memory means primary card data which, according to a protocol and at least until said interfacing, represents a monetary equivalent of an alpha card value, said reader/writer having card data reading means for, upon said interfacing, reading said primary card data, said reader/writer further having card data writing means for replacing said primary card data with secondary card data representing a beta card value, less in monetary equivalence than said alpha card value by a transaction amount difference; inputting said transaction amount into a purchase transaction register, said purchase transaction register being interfaced with said reader/writer whereby, following said inputting, said card data writing means records said secondary card data into said coin card memory means, said transaction register having register memory means for cumulatively recording purchase point cumulative data representative of a monetary equivalence of the sum of the total of all transaction amounts entered into said transaction register during a recording period, said transaction register further having clearing center interfacing and cumulative data dumping means for interfacing said transaction register with a clearing center processor having clearing center processor memory means for storing said purchase point cumulative data, communicating said purchase point cumulative data to said clearing center processor memory means as clearing center data and thereafter modifying said purchase point cumulative data in said transaction register memory to represent a monetary equivalent of zero monetary units; at the end of said recording period, actuating said clearing center interfacing and cumulative data dumping means.