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Message:: [QUOTE="kevin McGonigal, post: 5453397, member: 72790"]Here's a direct connection with a shill and a coin. Once upon a time diners and restaurants had minature juke boxes on the tables. Put in a quarter, select you songs (three for a quarter) and from a central location your choice of music would play throughout the entire eatery. When someone put in a quarter at their booth, everybody would hear theirs favorites. Owners and managers soon realized that if just one person did that ten others would join in. When things were slow the owner/manager would put in his own quarter and start the ball rolling. Over the course of a day's work he might have put in a couple bucks worth of HIS quarters. To make sure he got his money back he marked his quarters. A very common marking circa early 1960's was red nail polish around Washington's shoulders similar to the red capes that Cardinals of the Catholic Church wore. We use to call them "Kennedy quarters" for JFK who was the first Catholic president. So, those quarters were actually shill coins to get the patrons to start using those jukeboxes. Not too many originals around now as those were 90% silver quarters and most were melted down long ago.[/QUOTE]