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1. A coin feeding apparatus comprising:
a rotating disk that is inclined at a predetermined angle relative to a vertical direction, and is configured to be rotated in an inclined posture; a cover member forming a coin storing space for storing a coin with a surface of the rotating disk; a transport projecting member disposed on the surface of the rotating disk on a side of the coin storing space, the transport projecting member disposed on a position near a peripheral portion of the rotating disk, and the transport projecting member configured to catch a coin on the surface of the rotating disk and to transport the coin in a lower area of the rotating disk to an upper area of the rotating disk by rotating of the rotating disk; a guide member disposed to be opposed to the upper area of the surface of the rotating disk on the side of the coin storing space, the guide member configured to guide the coin transported by the transport projecting member by rotating of the rotating disk and present in the upper area of the surface of the rotating disk such that the coin is fed to an outside of the rotating disk; and a coin elimination unit disposed on the rotating disk, the coin elimination unit configured, when two coins are caught by the transport projecting member and the coins are guided by the guide member in the upper area of the rotating disk, to cause only one of the coins caught by the transport projecting member not to float up from the surface of the rotating disk and to cause the other coin to float up from the surface of the rotating disk, so that the other coin is caught by the guide member to be dropped to the lower area of the rotating disk. |