While Roll searching i came across a few 1960s nickels/quarters/halves painted in red/blue/yellow... i heard here before here that they represented rise in parking meter prices although i really don't remember. Anyone here knows ?
Many bars and taverns lease equipment like jukeboxes, video games and pool tables. Sometimes coins will not register when dropping through some of the old (non-digital) mechanisms. Other times, the bar owner will put money into the jukebox as a way of encouraging customers to play it. Since he is splitting the profits with the owner of the equipment, he uses coins marked with nail polish so they can be removed before the split. Chris
At one station I worked at there was a local car wash nearby. We had water issues at this station. The owner of the car wash offered to let us wash our ambulance for free. He suggested we get a roll of quarters and paint them red. That way when he emptied the coin box, he would pull the red quarters out and return them to us, so we could use them again. Same principle as noted with the bars above.
All of the bar owners and bartenders I've ever known, used these painted quarters for the pool table and the juke box. I don't think they contributed to the little vending machines in the rest rooms. But, who knows? It was a strange crowd. Bruce
