Is this what I think it is?

orion3311

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So I went to the Jersey Shore Saturday and finished off the night in the Gateway 21 arcade, playing some games and some Pokerino. Anyhow I got a roll of quarters and put a stack next to the coin slot for easy inserting. Eventually I came to this quarter...which immediately brought up the question - could this be a former Space Port "employee" quarter?
 

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An employee quarter was a painted quarter used to test machines or issue free games. This way the amount of free games could be tallied vs. the real paying customer quarters and compared to the coin counter to account for everything.
 
Yep I believe they were painted blue. There's some Space Port training vids on youtube that someone posted a while back - hence how I knew about it. I kept that one btw.
 
I miss Space Port. When I lived in South Jersey back in the 80's. We would hit the Spaceport in the Shore Mall all the time. Then right across from the arcade was "Sound Odessey" record store. AHHH memories.....
 
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