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Harry213 Pillar of the Community United States 1126 Posts	Posted 09/15/2012 2:47 pm This is a metal detecting find from years ago in a New York City park. Someone told me it might be a parking meter token but the meters here have always used coins. I know it might just be junk, from an arcade or coin op laundromat, but I am posting it here in the off chance someone might actually know what it is from... Report this Post to the Staff

Sap Moderator Australia 16850 Posts	Posted 09/16/2012 04:45 am Quote: I know it might just be junk, from an arcade or coin op laundromat... Yep, it's a "generic" or "stock" token. If you had a token-operated machine (arcade game, laundromat, car park boom gate or whatever) that needed a supply of tokens but were too cheap to have your own personalized tokens designed and made, you'd order a batch of these. As an example, I acquired a token with exactly this same design - obverse eagle with crudely-rendered American shield, reverse inscription COIN METER TOKEN with two stars below - from the token-operated laundry at the Club Med resort on Tahiti, in 1984. The resort sold the tokens for 100 francs. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis Report this Post to the Staff
Harry213 Pillar of the Community United States 1126 Posts	Posted 09/16/2012 07:30 am Thanks for the confirmation.. For one fleeting moment right after I dug it up and first saw the eagle and stars, I thought I had found something really good.. Then I read the lettering, but I wondered if at least it was an antique one. So I kept it in my junk box.. Looking at the crudely formed shield and eagle under magnification, was perhaps the biggest clue to me that it was junk.. I just wanted to be sure. Thanks again for the reply. Report this Post to the Staff
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