[xefer]

I believe there is a reference to this law in the movie “No Country for Old Men”.

The movie was set in 1980. In the famous coin toss scene Anton Chigurh explicitly states that the date on the quarter is 1958 and that it had been traveling for 22 years. That means it was a silver coin. The US Coin Act of 1965 changed the make up of coins from 90% silver to cladded nickel and zinc. The old silver coins very quickly disappeared from circulation. Any remaining ones were snatched up especially when the price of silver skyrocketed when the Hunt Brothers in Texas tried to corner the silver market in 1980, right in the time period when the movie was set.

So basically Chigurh had no business having a 1958 silver quarter in his pocket.

I think Cormac McCarthy was implicitly showing Chigurh was a dispassionate force of evil driving out the good.

[nickthemagicman]

Ive interpreted Chigurh as an agent of chaos much like the Joker. We've given our lives all this order and civilization but underneath is ultimately chaos.