Server Left Perplexed After Customer Leaves Mystery Coin Instead of Paying [Video]

A server was left puzzled after a customer left a restaurant without paying the bill and instead left behind a mysterious gold-colored coin.

Reddit user u/Martoshka shared the experience on a subreddit called, “mildly infuriating,” where it gained 42,000 upvotes. They explained they work in an upscale steakhouse, and the bill totaled $35.

“A guy left this on the table of the restaurant I work in and left without paying,” they wrote.

Alongside the post, they included a photo of the coin left by the diner, which is gold with an engraved Bitcoin “B.” Text around the coin reads: “Bitcoin. Digital. Decentralized. Peer to peer.”

Jesse Kraft, assistant curator at the American Numismatic Society, told Newsweek about the origins of the mystery “bitcoin.”

“That is a ‘Bitcoin.’ I use quotes because real bitcoin is, of course, a digital cryptocurrency, while this is something that someone created as a gimmick to make a buck.

“There is such a thing as physical …