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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;hontonai, post: 649067, member: 4703&quot;]Pogs in the sense of military exchange &quot;change&quot; have been around for a long time, but the name is believed to have originated in Hawaii early in the 20th Century from POG, a brand of juice made from passionfruit, orange and guava.&nbsp; POG bottle caps (the old milk bottle style <a href="http://www.angelfire.com/mi/bottle/page6.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.angelfire.com/mi/bottle/page6.html" rel="nofollow">paper caps</a>, not the metal Coke bottle type) were used to play a kids game.</p><p><br /></p><p>Much later the game was commercialized, and companies like Knotts Berry Farm issued sets, which (mostly) middle school aged kids collected and traded.&nbsp; There were even national and international tournaments in the 1990s.</p><p><br /></p><p>Both the game-type and the PX-type pogs are collected as exonumia.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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