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Message:: [QUOTE="cladking, post: 109384, member: 68"]This is a good reference but will list very few of the types of tokens in the described accumulation.  Old tokens tend to get separated from newer ones.  Rulau also wrote US trade tokens 1866-1889 (1983).  There's "A Catalog of Telephone Tokens of the World" Targonsky (1968).  These are small bronze nickel sized discs issued in the early part of the last century for use in telephones.  They have slots and grooves with very little lettering which is usually incuse.  Most were issued in Illinois.  This book will prove very elusive. On the same subject is Frank Earl's "Slotted, Grooved, and Punched" 1979.  This will be nearly as elusive as Targonsky. There are various Franklin Mint catalogs.  These can be very helpful even if you don't collect this material.  They can be found at yard sales and book stores.  "Video Arcade, Pinball, Slot Machine, and Other Amusement Tokens Of North America" is a good book.  Alpert- Smith (1984).  This shouldn't be too hard to find.[/QUOTE]