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<p>[QUOTE="cwtokenman, post: 2084004, member: 2100"]If your token matches the one you linked to, both in design and metal, then yours would have the same id. number. The one in the link is correctly identified. My 1996 Atwood-Coffee values that token at $0.25. 400,000 of those tokens were struck 7/24/68 and they were placed into service on 8/1/68.</p><p><br /></p><p>CRT was chartered in 1945 and operated the system formerly operated by the Virginia Electric and Power Co. In the beginning, they operated 47 streetcars over 23 miles of track in addition to 107 buses over 96 miles of route. However, the streetcars were a short lived part of the company, being abandoned on January 13, 1946. </p><p><br /></p><p>Tokens were put into use by CRT on August 15, 1948. This first style of token was used from 1948 to 1961, and 900,000 tokens were struck over six orders during that time. The third (and final) variety of token issued by CRT, such as the one in your link, was used from 8/1/68 until 1975. CRT did not exactly close down, but was taken over by Peninsular Transportation District Commission (PENTRAN) on April 1, 1975.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="cwtokenman, post: 2084004, member: 2100"]If your token matches the one you linked to, both in design and metal, then yours would have the same id. number. The one in the link is correctly identified. My 1996 Atwood-Coffee values that token at $0.25. 400,000 of those tokens were struck 7/24/68 and they were placed into service on 8/1/68. CRT was chartered in 1945 and operated the system formerly operated by the Virginia Electric and Power Co. In the beginning, they operated 47 streetcars over 23 miles of track in addition to 107 buses over 96 miles of route. However, the streetcars were a short lived part of the company, being abandoned on January 13, 1946. Tokens were put into use by CRT on August 15, 1948. This first style of token was used from 1948 to 1961, and 900,000 tokens were struck over six orders during that time. The third (and final) variety of token issued by CRT, such as the one in your link, was used from 8/1/68 until 1975. CRT did not exactly close down, but was taken over by Peninsular Transportation District Commission (PENTRAN) on April 1, 1975.[/QUOTE]
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