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Same both sides above tokens

 

Went to Washington's Crossing yesterday. It was a perfect day not too hot and low humidity.
I did buy a bottle of water but for got to take a photo of it.
Also I took a photo out the window of my Jeep

 

From a question from somebody PM'd I thought that some others may find the info interesting. The widest brand is the Nik-o-lok Still going strong! (couldn't resist ) here is their site http://www.nikolok.com/lokinfo.html even a page on Wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pay_toilet And even a broadway musical about them Not to mention in GB and Europe Here is the other large player in the game http://www.standardchange.com/company-history And a sucessful for a time group or movement(sorry couldn't resist again ) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_to_End_Pay_Toilets_in_America



Here is one custom from a hospital, that I have.





The above is probably more then most want to know



And here is a great site for tokens of all types meter tokens for gas that were used in GB along with a list of his other sites. look for the toilet token page in the heading.https://sites.google.com/site/malsweights/contact
Attention Jwt 708 check out his pages for military tokens, all his pages are listed on the home pages.

 

Hey @Circus - Think you left something out...are you talking about token manufacturers? I haven't checked out the links yet as I'm typing this...

Looks like Mal's tokens are British? I don't think I would mind adding a British token but I've got my hands full right now just with the U.S. That is a pretty cool site, thanks for sharing!

 

Was referring to my post of the Nik-o-lok toilet token #3382 this morning. Yes they are the two major players still making the door lock machines for either coins or tokens. I thought that his site would be a diversion for you. It might work if you were stationed there.

 

This one's a lot newer than most of the others posted here, but here's mine:




(Pardon the crummy images)

 

Here's another of my acquisitions from my Europe trip:

(nickel inserted for scale, its about 2 1/2 inches or so in diameter). I got this in Copenhagen at the same shop as the Italian Columbian Exposition medal. For details on the subject, see

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Brønnum_Scavenius_Estrup

 

I'm glad coin clubs still do this.

 

Great medal!

 

New old makes no difference, they are what we come to see. There are plenty of new ones in this thread!

 

That's a really fine medallion from Copenhagen

Here is a reasonable if fairly common ironmaster token from 1790






We are more 'hands on' round here.

 

Lovin' it afantiques! Know it's diameter?

 

It is te size of an American 50 cent coin, and the same size as other 18th C halfpennies. The edge is embossed with the names Willey Snedshill Bertham Bradley.

 

Thanks!

 

This token is locally minted in Dublin by Edward Stevens. Dated 1816, it has Wellington on one side and the Irish harp on the other, giving an appearance similar to official coins. This one has a rather dug up appearance, probably metal detected somewhere.

 

I finally got one of these:



United States American Arts Gold 1984 John Steinbeck Medal
Obverse:
John Steinbeck facing
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA / JOHN STEINBECK / 1984
Reverse:
California farm house, barn, and fences
AMERICAN ARTS COMMEMORATIVE SERIES / ONE HALF OUNCE GOLD
Gold, 28mm, 17.32gm, 0.900 fine, 1/2 ounce gold

 

I bought about five Vatican-related medals on my trip, mostly in Germany. The bronze one was purchased at an antique store in Copenhagen, I saw a bowl of medals in the window. The other was purchased in Kiel, at a secondhand store that had a nice number of medals, all for under ten euros. The bronze is a Pius X canonization medal from 1954, reproducing the obverse of Pius's annual medal for his first year in office (the Vatican has issued a medal annually with the pope on it and the year of his reign since I think the 1500s). The reverse shows it to be from the canonization, or at least I think so (I checked Wikipedia and 1954 was when Pius was canonized) The other is a fairly standard medal that they sell by the thousand in the shops around Saint Peter's Square, with the current pope on it (you can also get Benedict and JPII in some shops). Usually the reverse has a view of Saint Peter's Square, but this was issued during the Holy Year, 1975 (every 25 years) and shows a view of the doors that are only opened during that year. The symbolism of where the doors lead is pretty clear I think!