A grape-purple Planchet is revealed by my A-peeling 1979 Quarter ?!

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Welcome Senior saver! I believe the coin was painted and the paint is peeling off! Notice how there is still a faint hue of that color remaining where the paint has peeled! Not sure why people do that but I often find painted coins when looking through coin rolls! Nothing in the composition would create that color IMHO! Scratch an area with a tooth pick to see if it will come off!

 

^^^^^^^^^Agreed^^^^^^^^^^^

 

The owners of places where there were juke boxes, mostly bars, would paint coins and occasionally give one to a customer to play the juke box. When the coin box was emptied the owner got his change back.

 

Exactly.

This way the owners could separate their actual earnings from their promotional handouts. Red quarters pop up often, but mostly 70s and 80s from what I've found.

 

I did scratch a small part of the grape area and it revealed a silver planchet!
So, a portion of the coin Was Painted(?) Grape by someone. "That Person"
must be some kind of a "crazy detailed artist"! The details are so small it can
hardly be seen without the magnification...Just looks like a little red tone.
PS: I do like that grape color... Thanks, 1stSgt22, Semper Fi !

 

Did you read the info above?

 

Quarters because the older coins have been worn down or collected. At one time they used nickels - for the "Nickelodeon".

 

Have never seen a nickel painted that way. Or if I have I didn't put two and two together. Interesting.

 

My best man worked for his uncle’s vending company from early 70s to mid 90s. I used to travel his route with him from bar to bar to bowling alley to golf club. I’d always get to talk to the owner since the money was being counted. I’ll verify the painted quarters being separated and returned 100% to the businesses. Couldn’t be used in cigarette or food vending or vendor kept them

 

Philadelphia and Denver did not use silver planchets in 1979. They are clad (cupronickel).

Yes, many bars used the painted coins, often using nail polish. A friend of mine had a small tavern in Ft. Myers, and his wife painted these quarters purple because that was her favorite nail polish.

Most of the tavern owners could not afford to buy all of the pool tables, juke box and other video games, so they had a profit sharing arrangement with a vendor. The painted coins were removed before the proceeds were divided.

 

1964 was the last year Silver was used in circulation for quarters. It was very common back then to paint a early sixties quarter, especially a 1964 with red paint to keep you from spending it. Yours is a 1979 so it was either thought to be silver or it was used regularly in vending machines, which Chris explained well just above my post.

 

Sorry, I made only a small scratch ... looked silver like ... not grape-purple
Obviously Not Silver...
Interesting, the background on these coins... who knew...

 

Who knew? We knew. Lol and welcome to CT.