Chigurh’s coin flip

I don’t know why exactly but after reading the book No Country for Old Men the little scene with the coin toss at the cash register is still in the back of my head. I just think it’s totally crazy how he determines the fate of someone’s life based off a coin toss, even when that person didn’t bother or trouble him in anyway. I also thought about how much people take things for granted because when that guy won the coin toss he didn’t seem to care as much. To be fair, he probably didn’t think if he lost that coin toss he was going to die because he doesn’t really know Chigurh but I kind of agree with Chigurh on the fact that people take so many things for granted. Also one more thing confused me on the coin toss, I didn’t really understand why Chigurh was obsessive over this coin. I understand why he insisted on the guy keep it in a safe place, because it spared his life, but I got a little confused when he started talking about like the date of the coin. He said something like, “this coin dates back many years and it is a very valuable coin,” maybe he is making up something for him to keep it safe with him because the guy doesn’t know how significant that coin flip was for him. I believe Chigurh is just making up something for this guy to keep this coin, otherwise I don’t know why he brought that up.