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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;CaptHenway, post: 4954838, member: 13813&quot;]Somewhere around the year 2000 the CTA switched to readable passes and stopped taking tokens, though for a while the busses continued to take exact change in coins. We found out that their central counting room was going to be selling off its accumulation of rejects, and on a lark we bought a ton of it cheap which they delivered in 50 pound bags. I used to go through it during slow times, pulling out coins that were still good exchange and making up poundage lots we could sell. </p><p><br /></p><p>Nothing really good but we probably made money on the lot. Found two or three small Mexican gold coins (the 2-1/2 pesos was about the same size as the small token) and a 1694 Polish silver coin about the size of a nickel. About half of the lot by weight was those German one pfennig pieces. We bagged them up and for all I know they are still sitting in the safe where I used to work![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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