Post your Subway Tokens

They have been used in several countries. This web page shows several but they come from other countries as well. I don't collect them so I can't be any more specific
http://www.anythinganywhere.com/commerce/exo/telephonetokens.htm

There is, or at least was five years ago an organization dedicated to collecting them , the International Telephone Token Association. If it is still around it can be contacted here

The International Telephone Token Association, dedicated to help world wide collectors. It works informally, only via E-Mail. Please contact: Jose Luis Rubio at RUBIOJL@ADINET.COM.UY

Another country not on the earlier list is Zambia. No groove in it though

Here are some more locations http://members.home.nl/ronmunt/TelephoneToken.htm

 

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Good thread on the transits. Many of these have a number of minor die variations, and can be difficult to id even with pics and a description of the differences. I have a couple of thousand transits from all over the U.S. Some are still in original rolls, and I have a small collection of the token dispensers that were mounted to one's belt. Coffee's set of transit token references consists of three volumes - The Listings, Die Variations, and History and total nearly 3000 pages.

 

I used to have one of those for the subway. God, they replaced the tokens with that stupid card and that card sucks.

Ruben

 

Dan - it arrive today! Thanks

Ruben

 

I have one just like that..it is very small, smaller than a dime and looks new.


RickieB

 

subway card

i got and kept a lot of earlier metrocard from new york. the reverse were so cool. like the new york rangers hockey champion team on it. i will sell them for $250.00 each.

 

It it looks new it is serious business, almost unheard of and higher sought after.

Ruben

 

yeah ... and


"Tell me more tell me more did you get very far..."

Ruben

 

Since you missed it the first time Dan - I got your token in the mail a few days ago! Thanks!

Ruben

 

Check this Out!

http://data.numismatics.org/cgi-bin/showobj?accnum=1981.128.2



Serious Business!

 

BTW - when I was at the Ancients Show at the Waldorf David Hendin gave me this beauty ... Aint she purty?

 

I assume this is a subway token for DC. :thumb:

I originally thought it was a bus fare token. no idea = P

 

that is pretty cool

 

I took the NY Subway all my life until 1971. I know I've had a few NYC subway tokens stashed away somewhere around but it's been so long since I lived there, I'm not sure where they are. I'll ask my brother who is still in NY to check and save them for me.
I remember the San Francisco tokens I had then and still may have some of them.

Now, I've gotta look for them and post them all.

Bruce

 

By the way, Ruben,...Great Thread.

Bruce

 

This is one of the more fun threads in cointalk

Ruben

 

San Francisco Municipal Railway:

San Francisco Transit (16mm)
GOOD FOR ONE FARE / SAN FRANCISCO
Samuel Kahn PRESIDENT / MARKET ST. RY. CO.

I like this one because of the Pasadena Rose image:

Pasadena Transit (22mm)
PASADENA CITY LINES, INC.
GOOD FOR ONE FARE

I have some other tokens displayed at:
http://www.brianrxm.com/mardir/tokena_transit.htm

 

Well, I guess somebody wants pictures of that L.A.Token here...
All I know about it is I got it from my granpa in a bag with a a bunch of other coins. This was the only token in there.

I think it is either a subway or streetcar token.

 

It's CA-450J. 16mm white metal and first issued in 1946. These were used for some period of years and there were a few reorders of tokens meaning there are numerous varieties. To my knowledge all the varieties are common.

I can't help much with other information. I believe it was a street railway token but don't know.

 

This one is not a SUBWAY token, it is a bus token... But, somebody may find it interesting....