Three Red Colored Pennies

Wow I couldnt belive how many times I had to crop thoose pictures. Well there they are hope someone knows.

I'd spend the memorial ones. No extra value for them. The 1940 is a Wheat cent. I'd keep that one.

I had come across alot of red painted wheats... all different years and wondered if there was a reason? I was gonna make a post actually! Anyways maybe it had some significance in the same ways as the quarter? I was reading about red painted quarters and someone had some good points of why they existed.

Here are a few of the more plausible answers why quarters were painted red: (fingernail polish - red)

They're old test coins. In the past, repairmen used them to check out the coin-operated pay phones, vending machines, and laundromat washers they were fixing in order to avoid being accused of stealing. That makes sense to me.

They were "house" money. Red quarters are sometimes used by business owners as perks; they give them to their preferred customers for free plays on the coin-operated pool tables, pinball machines and video games. Red quarters were also used by waitresses to "prime" otherwise quiet jukeboxes in order to encourage other patrons to add their own quarters and keep the music coming.

Somebody painted it as a sign of defiance. According to Answers.com, the red coins were part of a campaign in the 1970s to protest New Jersey officials' decision to increase the toll on the Garden State Parkway from 15 cents to a quarter.

They were once used for free laundry.For some apartment managers, free laundry is apparently a fringe benefit. Landlords will often give their building supervisors red quarters for use in the apartment laundromats. The managers would get their quarters back when the owner or laundromat vendor removed the cash from the machines.

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