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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Billy Kingsley, post: 788569, member: 19456&quot;]I&#039;m working slowly on a collection of tokens, and on the rare occasion, coins and currency with automobiles on them. What can I say, I am a car guy through and through, and even my only non-automovie hobby is now car related. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>There are a TON of mint medals of early automobiles. I know of over 100. I have 25, I found them in a framed display in my closet. A few years back at an antique shop I saw a TON more but didn&#039;t have enough money for them. I did purchase, that day, a Pontiac token that likely dates back to the 1920s. 30s at the latest.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>It&#039;s slow going so far (I have no money to actually BUY anything most of the time) but I have gotten a few. My favorite is, however, a train token. I like trains, I think they are neat but I am not obsessed with them as I am with cars. However, this token actually has my home town on it. It&#039;s not the only numismatic item with the name of my hometown clearly spelled out, we had a National Bank that issued notes, but those are well out of my price range as there are 4 on the census only. The token I nabbed on Ebay for six dollars, most of which was shipping. One of these days I will try and take a picture of it, but I don&#039;t know how that will come out as it is smaller then a dime. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I have some Garden State Parkway tokens that my dad brought back from various trips. The cool thing is that they are bi-metallic. When he brought them back, that was pretty novel as I had only seen one other thing at all like that, a coin from Russia. I have seen a lot more bi-metallic issues since then but those are important to me because of the fact that my dad gave them to me. I lost my dad to cancer in 2002...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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