Help with a Yugoslavian piece. I don't even know if this (quarter sized) is a coin. Any takers? Thanks Ben
A quick tour through the pages of the 2007 20th Century Krause finds several coins with similar obverse legends - including the double spelling of the country name - but no matches, and no coins lacking a denomination.
Looks like a Yugoslavia telephone token. One buys the token from a kiosk or shop, then uses it in a coin-operated public telephone. ZAVOO ZA IZRADO NOVCANICA Yugoslav Institution for printing and issuing paper money and coins PTT Post, telephones, telegraph (initials used in a lot of places)
Thank You Sir, for the effort. I too have an older (2006) Krause and could find nothing... Much Appreciated:thumb: Ben
Here is one for sale on Ebay :thumb: http://cgi.ebay.com/FIVE-Telephone-...60514665QQihZ006QQcategoryZ3182QQcmdZViewItem De Orc
For your information: As you see this "coin", you will notice the word "Megaplast". If you google, you will see that Megaplast is one of the leading Yugoslavian makers of token, medeallic issues and other metallic materials.
Phone tokens are very popular collectables.They are certainly more collectable than phonecards are,that's for sure! We used to have a booming phonecard market in which prices ended up going through the roof & up into the stratosphere.Some people were making huge money just in dealing in phonecards.Eventually,prices started coming down during 1994.Prices for phonecards are now through the floor & into the ground.There are very few collectors of phonecards over here in New Zealand now. Aidan.
Yes, it is a telephone token. As inflation drove up prices, and even the costs of a phone call increased, these tokens were replaced by a second series followed by yet a third series (C). The C series are less common, due to limited usage as PTT began converting public telephones to use cards instead of tokens. Slovenian telephone tokens:
