Has anyone ever come across this coin. Searched it. Can’t find it online.

Please help identify. If any value at all opinions are welcome.

 

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All i can find is a transport token for Area 3 (Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Virginia)

 

thank you

 

What I believe that is, is a General Services Administration, Motorpool Aluminum token, Region 3 is D.C. Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia.
there was Aluminum token $0.30, Red Token $0.60, and Green Token $0.90 worth of fare.

This is the smallest unit, a shuttle bus ride would cost you this for a short distance, up to 4 of them for a longer distance, or 2 red or 1 green and 1 aluminum, for a longer shuttle bus ride ect.

The government motorpool didn't take any cash, couldn't in fact, the offices you worked for were either billed for cars for longer term, or had to buy tokens to dole out to employees to get around from office to office on the shuttles, (no email or fax) and these tokens represented the prepaid money for the costs for wear and tear fuel ect. for the vehicles.

Can you post a picture of the other side of it, is it coin flip, or medal flip? my problem with it is it was 1950s. and that doesn't look like it has the history of the 1950s and I feel like it could be a reproduction, then again these tokens might have been short lived and sat somewhere a long time.

and If you don't mind how did you acquire it? This is quite a bit before my time, but my mother worked in DC for many years in her early life before marrying and having children.

I could be way off base here, but I think she's likely on the mark with this after me knowing the acronym GSA, and connecting the dots and asking her about the picture you provided. Curious why it looks so good though.

She could be wrong, she's old and repeats herself a lot. but she lit up a little when she looked at the picture like she's seen it before, was a whole story. LOL. She may be right.

On another note, Adjusted for inflation, that $0.30 aluminum token would have the buying power of $2.70 or so today. So it wasn't cheap to get around D.C. agency offices back then.

 

Both sides of the coin are identical. Seems like they have some historical value. They were in an auction lot that I purchased at the local auction house. They are light so aluminum makes sense. I appreciate the input. I could not find a single picture of them online.

 

Medal flip. If I understand the question properly

 

This is likely what they are then!
Now as far as information goes.... I don't find anything either on the internet.

Not sure how to go about getting more information but to try tokens experts or a letter or email to the GSA itself and see if they can shed any light on them. Not sure how long they used these tokens (how many years) or if it was short lived and too much of a pain to continue it.

I think what you have is pretty rare and in nice condition. No idea how rare as tokens are a niche collectable especially transportation tokens like bus, subway, train as an example, or if it's valuable or collected by anyone.

Do you have more than 1 from that auction lot and did you get any of the red or green ones?

It's interesting to me. Glad I could help and wish I could help more but I'm at a dead end from here. I'm surprised I got this far actually lol. Should be from before 1960s I think but not sure when they were made or how long they were used.

Up to you if you go further on it. If you have more than one maybe put one on ebay for the price you paid for the lot and see if anyone bites and the rest are free? I dunno. Maybe the buyer, if there is one, will know more.

 

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If anyone has any idea how much any of these are worth, feel free to share your opinion with me.

 

I really appreciate all the insight you have provided. I have 8 of the tokens. They were part of a 100 random coin lot I purchased. I got all silver ones. All in excellent condition. Maybe I’ll see if an email will get me a response. Gonna Lee trying time get info. Might even search for a forum that has dedicated token threads. Again. Thank you

 

All of those are either damaged or just regular old coins worth face value. Some of cents are starting to rot, I’d spend them quick.

Also, you should learn the minting process so you don’t waste your time on obviously damaged stuff.

Best of luck and happy hunting.

 

Thanks for the advice!

 

I didn’t realize you are not the original poster... next time start your own thread because what you did was hijack someone else’s thread.

welcome to CT

 

All damaged!

 

Regarding the GSA token, yours has an id of DC 500 AFa (serif on the "G", small letters) and is listed in Atwood-Coffee's Transportation Token reference. If any of your other tokens do not have the serif on the "G" and have large letters, the last character of the id would be a "b". This is an obsolete token. In my 2007 reference, value is listed at $1.00. Too bad they weren't the red or green plastic varieties as those listed at $100.00 each.