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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 2296355, member: 68&quot;]AVA members are very helpful to new members.&nbsp; You may get a few free tokens but you&#039;ll get numerous offers to sell inexpensive tokens and to trade.&nbsp; They hold frequent auctions for better tokens ($1 to $20).&nbsp; Trading can be a very effective way to build up a collection though it does take a little time to build up enough desirable duplicates to trade.&nbsp; There are about 50 excessively common transportation tokens and another 500 very common so getting started is inexpensive.&nbsp; The next thousand will cost about a dollar each and after that many people begin to specialize.&nbsp; While catalog prices of scarcer tokens are quite low&nbsp; they usually trade at auction for three or four times catalog on average. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Prices and costs may be a little higher than when I was active because of postal rates and inflation but most people will find it very inexpensive to put together substantial collections.&nbsp; These tokens don&#039;t get the kind of attention they deserve so it&#039;s not too unusual to find misidentified tokens as well as rare varieties or common ones in unusually high grade.&nbsp; Tokens were produced in batches of 1000 and then the dies were discarded. Each reorder resulted in a distinctly different variety.&nbsp; Often the earliest varieties are quite scarce and typically highly worn.&nbsp; These often trade back and forth as 15c tokens. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I specialize in Indiana and Washington DC tokens as well as a few other states.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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