Abstract: A coin counter and return device useful in automatic vending machines, amusement devices and slot machines, consisting of a fixed base upon which there is a rotating body and a plurality of projections. The rotating body has at least one contact face and has a plurality of recesses each of which is positioned to receive one of the projections. To remove a coin, the contact face knocks a coin against the projections and presses the coin against the projections at contact points separated by a distance less than the coin's diameter. This impels the coin towards the outside. In this way, coins of any dimension may be counted and returned.