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Is there anyway of determining if a silver dime was ever spent in a juke box?
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I can assure you I spent some silver dimes in juke boxes....So check for my fingerprints....
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Easy, ask it.
See if it smells like alcohol, or a milkshake.
Ahhh! The bouquet of stale cigarette smoke permeates the coinage. Peace Roy
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I remember silver dimes in jukeboxes and silver dollars in slot machines! 🙂
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Sure ... if you find it still in the old Jukebox!!
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Finger prints don't lie.
Actually - yes. The story is told that for years cents, nickels, dimes, etc; were painted with finger nail polish by waitress staff so that when the repairman or owner of the juke box, cig machine, etc., opened it up they would get their money back. This was done by staff to keep the records spinning or helps customer out who's change was eaten and no product delivered.
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This.......
I can't tell you how many 'red' quarters and dimes I bought back during the boom of 1979. I asked one of my customers, who happened to have a greater percentage of them in his stash. He was a bar owner and told me the fingernail polish story......
Ahhh. . . my curiosity and thirst for knowledge within this topic arena is quenched.
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Dang! I know she was convicted of shoplifting or stealing from a laundry mat? Such a sad end of story for what was a budding acting career.
Same here.
Back to the OP:\
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To find out, easy:
Put the coin to your ear & listen for the music
BHNC #203
A painted coin doesn't guarantee use in a juke box as the process was also used in casinos.
In the late 70s, the arcade in the mall used to give a free plays if you went to the theater next door. Those coins were painted green
Sing a bunch of jukebox era songs and wait to see if the dime joins in on one of them?
Jukebox or similar, not sure
However, mechanical parking meters. the kind where you had to turn a lever to drop the money and energize your time, these left sometimes some scratches on the coins due to mechanical friction.
What, no reference to "I love rock & roll" by Joan Jett?!
"...pirate another dime in the jukebox, baby..."
I recall a jukebox that took coins as well as banknotes but the coin return was on the side down low near the back. Was always worth checking.
Jukeboxes and pinball machines. I saw a GENUINE slabbed PCGS coin that had been marked as having machine (?) damage. Possibly from one of these machines?
(Or a counting machine, yet I prefer to think the coin lived a life a bit more romantic than that.)