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Message:: [QUOTE="Randy Abercrombie, post: 24671738, member: 92655"]In another thread [USER=89213]@Inspector43[/USER] made reference to an establishment painting a red spot on coins going into a jukebox or pool table as "seed" money to get the patron interested. When the jukebox was emptied by the vendor, he would return the red painted coins to the establishment..... I thought this was a very cool little piece of trivia and thought a thread to recount similar sorts of trivia & tidbits may be fun.... Here's mine: I cannot recall where this came from, though I have to be honest and say that I have done the obligatory "Google" research and have not been able to pin down a source..... Red painted cents.... The story goes that in the days before mass media, a traveling circus would send people ahead to the next stop on their route with bags of red painted cents to inject into the local economy. If you received a red painted cent in change then you knew that the circus would be coming to town soon..... Now again, I cannot pinpoint the source of that story but it always intrigued me. Please add some interesting coin tidbit.[/QUOTE]