VENDING MACHINE AND VENDING MACHINE SYSTEM

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To minimize the spread of damages by making the damage to a single vending machine small and preventing damages from spreading to other vending machines, in the case of illegal insertion and output using counterfeit coins and the like. SOLUTION: This system is equipped with a decision part 42, which decides whether illegal insertion/output operation for money is made, according to the detection results of a coin processor 2 and a bill processor 3, body control part 41 which varies the money discrimination levels or reception kind level 21b or 31b of discrimination software 21a or 31b of the coin processor 2 or bill processor 3, when illegal insertion/output operation for money is performed by the decision 42 or when illegal insertion/output operation is reported from other vending machines a transmission processing part 46 which notifies other vending machines of illegal insertion/output information when the decision part 42 decides that the illegal insertion/output operation for money has been carried out, and a reception processing part 45 which receives illegal insertion/ output information for money from other vending machines.