Abstract: A coin-receiving drum can be used to carry coins, and also can coact with a support to orient those coins so those coins can be introduced into a coin-dispensing unit. That coin-receiving drum has a number of spaced-apart, coin-receiving recesses therein; and those spaced-apart, coin-receiving recesses open to the exterior of that coin-receiving drum. However, a closure member, which is pivoted to the coin-receiving drum, acts at any given time to close the majority of those spaced-apart, coin-receiving recesses. The support has a driving member and a stop; and that driving member will rotate the coin-receiving drum and the closure member until that closure member engages and is held by that stop; and then that driving member will continue to rotate that coin-receiving drum.