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<p>[QUOTE="Circus, post: 7941502, member: 51195"]It is a slot machine token 1890's to 1940's. The tokens with thousands of different numbers, from 0 to 50,000 or above. to get around the gambling laws of the various locations some machines had gum or mint vending components attached to them The numbers refereed to either the machine it self, machine operators, or the businesses. The tokens with the holes in the center when replayed would not vend additional gum,mints or candy.</p><p>The above is from Alpert and Elman Tokens and Medals book.</p><p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/142038282@N02/b2uR58" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/142038282@N02/b2uR58" rel="nofollow"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/1761/41719546380_d31f337262_z.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Circus, post: 7941502, member: 51195"]It is a slot machine token 1890's to 1940's. The tokens with thousands of different numbers, from 0 to 50,000 or above. to get around the gambling laws of the various locations some machines had gum or mint vending components attached to them The numbers refereed to either the machine it self, machine operators, or the businesses. The tokens with the holes in the center when replayed would not vend additional gum,mints or candy. The above is from Alpert and Elman Tokens and Medals book. [url=https://www.flickr.com/gp/142038282@N02/b2uR58][img]https://live.staticflickr.com/1761/41719546380_d31f337262_z.jpg[/img][/url][/QUOTE]
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