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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2214921, member: 112&quot;]Well, it&#039;s probably not nearly as common today, but if you go back a bit further than that .......... I first saw jukebox coins in the &#039;50s, and continued to see them until I quit going to bars, which was over 20 years ago. </p><p><br /></p><p>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&#039;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&#039;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.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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