Red cent received in change (1934-D)
I received this cent from a grocery store change machine last month (December 2015):

United States Cent 1934-D
It had been painted red at one time.
I had heard a long time ago that travelling circuses and carnivals would paint pennies
and put them into circulation as a form of advertising.
Has anyone else heard this story?


United States Cent 1934-D
It had been painted red at one time.
I had heard a long time ago that travelling circuses and carnivals would paint pennies
and put them into circulation as a form of advertising.
Has anyone else heard this story?

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They got those quarters back
why.... just thought some kid was screwing around with a coin... Cheers, RickO
Interesting.... I have seen red painted coins (quarters, cents and nickels)... never knew
why.... just thought some kid was screwing around with a coin... Cheers, RickO
I've been told that vendors (mainly car washes, and laundromats) painted their change with fingernail polish to put in the "change" machines, as a way of "tracking" how much was going back to the business at hand.
Sounds plausible to me.
If the take was small and there were few or no marked quarters in the machine the guy emptying the machine would remind the proprietor that he was supposed to be promoting the juke box.
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 sounds plausible 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."
http://lenpenzo.com/blog/id192...s-are-painted-red.html
It might be time to revive this "fad" when we are slow at the...perhaps I have said too much already.
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