Hi, I have a coin that has what looks like a rotary phone on one side and a deer/antelope on the other. This is the only coin I have that I cannot ID on my own. Any ideas? Thanks!
The only thing I can think of is that the symbol resembles the Impala (Chevrolet) symbol that was on their cars.
its a telephone token, I have one dated 1966. From Israel. http://www.privateline.com/TelephoneHistory5/telephonetokens.htm has more information on it..
Me too - I have one from Israel and some from Italy (the latter mainly because they were actually used in lieu of coins to some extent). Both are depicted on the page that Jim M referred to. Interesting, by the way, how quickly things change: That privateline.com article is from 1995 and says somewhere "especially since telephone cards are gradually replacing the tokens". Well, here in Germany we did not have phone tokens, just coins and then also cards ... and nowadays those cards are on the way out as well. Christian
