Found these while sorting to decide which to keep or deposit at the bank. Do they qualify for "toned"? Is there any way I can store these that might continue the process? I'd love to have the colors fill out the rest of the coins. Thanks, Bill.
If you want to have the color "fill out" the rest, you might as well just paint* them as that's the cause of what you see. So, no... unfortunately this is not toning, sir. (*or the like)
If you dip them in acetone, you'll probably find that the color will dissolve. It's not toning. Spend them! Chris
Thank you for the info. That's why I concede to those who's knowledge vastly exceeds my own. Keep them, or buy half a cup of coffee? I'll cash in the others and hold these as is, because Dad had apparently liked them. Bill
I agree. Some places used to color coins for free plays, so they knew how much money was made and how much used to entertain the drinkers. Probably just a marker and will probably come off with acetone.
Nothing special. Someone had spare time on their hands and painted them. Some of the paint has worn off in circulation. Sorry.
Then they are, in fact, something special and you're fortunate to have something owned and liked by your father.
Yep. The "family" coins and collected "stuff" are being liquidated, but anything that had a special appeal to him will be kept by me. (Unless it's something like a 1992 Lincoln Close AM MS.) Learn something new every day. I have done DJ/KJ at bars for 20 years, and never heard that term. Thanks to everyone for enlightening me. Bill
Well, it's probably not nearly as common today, but if you go back a bit further than that .......... I first saw jukebox coins in the '50s, and continued to see them until I quit going to bars, which was over 20 years ago. Chris kind of explained it. If you were in a bar and things were slow, and nobody was pumping money into the jukebox, the bartender would call a patron over to the bar, hand him a couple coins and say go play something. The idea was that music encouraged people to stay as opposed to getting bored and leaving. But since all the money that goes into a jukebox is split between the bar owner and the jukebox owner, those free play coins didn't count. To keep them separate they would be painted, usually with fingernail polish, but sometimes paint. So when the jukebox guy would come once a week to collect the money, the first thing he did was dump the coins on a table (usually a pool table because he owned those too) and separate out any marked coins. Those he gave to the bartender. Then he'd count the rest from all of the machines, tally it up, make his split with the bar owner, and go on to the next bar.
They are either jukebox coins, as previously mentioned, or they could be leftovers from a kids pants that went through the wash with a crayon. The crayon melts, and gets all over the coin. Either way, it isn't toning.
I would never have thought of that scenario, but I'll bet my mother could relate to it. Oh, the wrath of ruined clothes.
Coin-op laundry... used to put colored coins in the change machine as a warning that it was getting low.
Folks tend to forget that inflation has tainted the perception of the value of coins in a "juke box" or other coin operated medium. Back in the "50's", a quarter was a LOT of money for a bar owner to slip into the music machine. Beer was $1.25 a 6 pack and stayed at that level until the mid 70's. A silver dollar could put a kid into a sugar induced coma and STILL have 45 cents left over for a second visit to "the Corner Grocery Store" the next day. As for the OP's coin, I've never heard of a "half dollar" being used in a juke box which has always taken either nickels, dimes, or quarters. Plus, given the date, I'd have to believe that the coin was tagged for some other reason but it does not change the fact that it's not toning, it's just been painted for whatever reasons. Does anybody KNOW of a coin operated machine which takes Half Dollars?
