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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Burgess, post: 4483234, member: 105098&quot;]What I believe that is, is a General Services Administration, Motorpool Aluminum token, Region 3 is D.C. Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia.</p><p>there was Aluminum token $0.30, Red Token $0.60, and Green Token $0.90 worth of fare.</p><p><br /></p><p>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. </p><p><br /></p><p>The government motorpool didn&#039;t take any cash, couldn&#039;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.</p><p><br /></p><p>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&#039;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.</p><p><br /></p><p>and If you don&#039;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.</p><p><br /></p><p>I could be way off base here, but I think she&#039;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. </p><p><br /></p><p>She could be wrong, she&#039;s old and repeats herself a lot. but she lit up a little when she looked at the picture like she&#039;s seen it before, was a whole story. LOL. She may be right.</p><p><br /></p><p>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&#039;t cheap to get around D.C. agency offices back then.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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