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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Blasty, post: 6835198, member: 38375&quot;]This is interesting because it crosses two hobbies of mine, audio/music and coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is a token used in a &quot;phonograph salon&quot;. I found a blurb about this online, though the original source website seems to be gone.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>&quot;Another money-spinner for the Pathé Frères company was the Salon du Phonographe in the Boulevard des Italiens. In this plush, up-market set-up, one could sample any of the current audio delights - for a fee of course! Rows of comfy easy chairs faced polished wood cabinets each fitted with hearing tubes, a dialling device and coin slot. A coin was inserted, the desired choice dialled and within ten seconds the tune was heard. The first juke-box? Not exactly, for underneath this opulent room was a cellar stacked with cylinders and dozens of fleet footed staff to locate and play the required tunes!&quot;</i></p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m not sure the date or&nbsp; value of this token, but it would have to be 1905 or later based on the depiction of a disc record, which Pathe did not manufacture prior to 1905.</p><p><br /></p><p>I found this among a family coin accumulation that was passed down to me. Unfortunately, there&#039;s quite a bit of crud around the devices. I&#039;m hesitant to do anything&nbsp; (ie: acetone soak) as I don&#039;t know what the metal under the crud looks like.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/pathe_token_o-jpg.1272474/?temp_hash=2f0d1ae3b56564e00381d45e47c3c169" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/pathe_token_r-jpg.1272475/?temp_hash=2f0d1ae3b56564e00381d45e47c3c169" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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