French Coins Counting Machine Restoration Uncovering the Mystery of a Rare Machine

In this video, I restored a coincounting machine made in France. More about the restoration, transformation process: I was the lucky winner of this piece on an auction site. I found it very interesting, and it was worth the effort because we don t see something like this every day. The seller told me that the Mint of Poland used this moneycounting machine, then he purchased it and used it for personal purposes, most likely to trust casino chips in the 90s. The restoration, transformation process was uneventful but painstaking. Many pieces were damaged due to water and time, especially the top. The whole project took almost three weeks. The disassembly alone took over 10 hours. I cleaned the rusted parts with a 2000watt laser. It was satisfactory, and everything went faster than with the traditional sandblaster. If I didn t have this laser, I would have had to clean the vast parts manually because many of them wouldn t even fit in the blasting cabinet. Then I would have had to cle