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Valued Member
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Hello, Today I went and bought a couple roll of quarters and found this. Your thoughts would be interesting, THANK YOU!   |
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Valued Member
United States
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Rest in Peace
United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Moderator
 United States
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Marker, like Sharpie.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Paint, or marker. It is not worth more than 25 cents.
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Rest in Peace
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Looks like the one I roll searchedcabout a month ago, I remember the red obverse. Would have been sent to fed in central US (from MO) for "recycling". Maybe why its Green!  |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Years ago Bars would spray paint Quarters to identify them that are used in the juke box to get them back from the vendor when they collected the coinage. They would give them back to the bar owner when the machine when the machine didn't work properly. So the customer would not be upset when it didn't work correctly. If that did not fix the problem, then they would put an out of order sign on the machine and call the vender to fix the problem. So that is why you sometimes see them in change. (The machine are probably owned more now by the bars themselves now, or take credit cards.
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Rest in Peace
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coop, I'd never heard that before! Interesting. It does make sense. Back in the late 60's there were vending machines where I worked and customers would complain that their dime or nickel got stuck. I would have to go and unlock the machine and give it a nudge or swap the coin. Marking a set of problem-free quarters to use over and over would make good sense.
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Valued Member
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Thank you everyone, I thought someone might have used a marker also. But having said this, I have been buying coins for just a few months now and still learning I just needed another opinion.
Interesting info about the coins in the vending machines.
Thank you again.
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New Member
United States
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I just found one in my stash painted Blue! I imagine it was for the same reasons Red quarters exist, but it's cool to find a different color.  |
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How about you posting up an image of your blue quarter in its own topic for us to view?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I worked in an arcade back in the 80's. The owner would mark coins with paint and load a few of them in the change machine each day. If you found one with paint that matched the design that he put on the coins that day you would win free games, hotdogs or a soft drink. He stopped doing it when he found a kid with model paint out in the parking lot copying his design from a coin they found and then giving them to his friends. ANA ID: 3203813 - CONECA ID: N-5637 Clean a coin that may be worth collecting? Please DON'T! When in doubt, leave it dirty!! 
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