Does Chigurh believe what he says in "No Country for Old Men"?

I was just rewatching the film and noticed that, while Chigurh stresses the importance of the coin flip to the man in the service station, later on at about the 52 minute mark, he checks his pockets for something to open the vent cover in the motel with, and we can see a quarter stained dark red (presumably with dried blood) on the tails side.

It seems to me that this means two things: he's done the life or death coin toss before (with less happy results for the other participant), and that he did exactly what he told the service station owner not to do: he mixed the coin in with the rest of his change. Eventually the blood will flake off and the quarter will get lost.

In the novel, it seems Chigurh has a strange moral framework, but not only that, it's one he believes everyone else is aware of and simply neglects out of weakness or fear. In my mind, his being injured randomly late in the film is a sort of refutation of his ideology, and universal ideologies altogether (a frequent Coen trope). But seeing that quarter in his pocket makes me wonder how much he actually believes what he says about his world beliefs... is he genuine and inconsistent, or does he just like to terrorize by any means possible? Or is there some other interpretation?

Submitted August 28, 2016 at 09:08PM by Rappaccini http://ift.tt/2bZ7LSF