Please identify these two | Israeli telephone tokens

They look like Israeli telephone tokens to me.

It does make absolute sense...until we consider the apparantly arabic script and the John Deere tractor logo...whats that all about I wonder ?

Any idea what it says Biokemist?

I cannot read Hebrew, I can just recognize it but another thread addresses that subject. As for the symbol, that belongs to the Israel Postal Company.

This is the modern logo of Doar Israel. I am not quite sure of the postal service connection to payphones but the mail and phone service both fall under the Ministry of Communication so there may be some governmental connection.

These tokens are also dated, using the Hebrew calendar; the date alphanumerals are on either side of the deer logo. As it turns out, both of these have the same date: Year 5741, equivalent to 1981 AD.

Despite being the same date, they're clearly different die varieties; the size and shape of the numerals on the "dial-side" and the size of the spacing between the two Hebrew words are distinctly different.


In many countries, the government-owned telephone system was initially established and operated by the government-owned postal system, both telephone and post being government-subsidized forms of communication. In most such countries, the two systems have now been split, with the telephone systems now operated privately (and often owned by large multinational telcos) with the government maintaining control of the postal system.