How much is this worth?

Gr4yson0306

I got this coin as change and wondered how much it is worth

Thanks in advance

-Grayson

Gr4yson0306

Btw it has no mint mark

CommemKing

its worth 25 cents. spend it.

AUandAG

25¢

It is painted red to be used in jukeboxes. There is no value to a red painted quarter from 1974, numismatically.

Do you know what a jukebox is?

lol

bob

Gr4yson0306

Oh well that’s disappointing thanks anyways

-Grayson

carabonnair

Welcome to the forum. And , it looks like the mintmark is that blob behind Washington's hair ribbon.

jafo50

@AUandAG said:
25¢

It is painted red to be used in jukeboxes. There is no value to a red painted quarter from 1974, numismatically.

Do you know what a jukebox is?

lol

bob

The establishment owner would get the music started by inserting a painted quarter and pick a song. The marked coin would later me removed from the coin box and returned to the owner. This would let him keep track of how much money the jukebox actually made. I think they used nail polish to mark the coin.

Joe

Jimnight

It worth a quarter.

DBSTrader2

"The establishment owner would get the music started by inserting a painted quarter and pick a song. The marked coin would later me removed from the coin box and returned to the owner. This would let him keep track of how much money the jukebox actually made. I think they used nail polish to mark the coin."

Couldn't they just count the actual # of quarters in the machine to determine how much money the jukebox made, without needing to insert any colored coin? Or put in an unpainted one & subtract 25 cents from the total haul to determine the same? Not sure I understand what significance or usefulness the painted coin represented.......

coinpalice

why would you think a clad, common date quarter to be worth more than face value?

TurboSnail

Red painted quarter belonged to an old arcade machine or laundromat, so a game of Pac-man or 5 mins of drying machine?

Treashunt

25 cents, technical term for it:
a spender or loose change

WoodenJefferson

The finger nail coated quarters were usually owned by the waitress at a bar or pub. She'd feed the juke box a quarter to play some music to get the patrons to dance, drink and basically get the party going. This would also encourage other patrons to stick their quarters into the machine. The vendor would 'give back' any finger nail coated coins to the establishment to use again and again. It was a win, win situation, the vendor made money, the bar keep made money, the wait person made tips from tipsy patrons.

Spend the quarter.

ricko

@Gr4yson0306....Welcome aboard...Yep... juke box or game quarter... no numismatic value.... Keep looking at your change though... there are good one's out there. Cheers, RickO

Hydrant

Now I know. Interesting.

jwitten

Very interesting, I never knew this. I am only 33, and only remember one place with a juke box that was actually played/used.

vplite

Priceless?

JBK

I got one in change that I held onto as a relic of an earlier time. Worth only face value, but nothing wrong with that,.

BuffaloIronTail

"What's it Worth?". The eternal question. Coins like the OP specimen draw questions all the time from new or non-collectors. It's only natural. People want to learn.

This is the place to come to submit your questions. Most times you will not like the answer. We do give good advice.

Pete

pocketpiececommems

Back when I was in high school when the clad 65’s came out you would get a “Red” one one occasion. We called them Commie quarters. Got this one in charge today.

Mr_Spud

So I could have secretly tipped the waitresses by painting my own quarters red and using them in the jukebox 🤔

lordmarcovan

And nail polish was probably used because different waitresses had different shades of fingernail polish, enabling them to sort out whose quarters were whose, at the end of the day. Or so I've heard it.

lordmarcovan

My dealer mentor called them "hokewaters". I had no idea what he was talking about.

Turns out he meant "ho' quarters", and in his version, there was a jukebox and nail polish involved, but the ladies weren't waitresses.

1630Boston

Used by pay phone repairmen ?
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Used to protest highway toll increases ?
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https://youtu.be/aS-Lv_sRzDU

PerryHall

Those red quarters were used by bar owners in the juke boxes. When there was no music being played by the bar patrons, the bar owner would "prime the pump" by playing a couple of songs. When the juke box owner emptied the coins out of the juke box, he'd give the bar owner back his red quarters so they could be used again to "prime the pump".

Fraz

I would grade a nailpolished quarter if they put —Ho Quarter— on the label.

Cougar1978

Face value. I just throw in my change wallet for Burger King.