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Valued Member
Australia
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Pillar of the Community
Netherlands
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I don't have any information on this token.. But it doesn't look German at all.. I really can't imagine that they use English on tokens..  I guess it's from the UK.. |
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Valued Member
 Australia
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Hi Sander the only information I was able to find on Bajazzo tokens was on this webpage http://www.jetons-monnaie.net/a/ajeton108.html , which clearly says Germany at the beginning of 1900. I'm not entirely sure what it all means! |
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Google: "The Bajazzo is a small, privately run hotel located in a quiet street in the historic center of Vienna."
But, I agree with Sander, everything other than the word "Bajazzo" appears to be British.
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Valued Member
Australia
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Fair enough guys, thanks. I will do some more research on this one. Great input, thank you.
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 Australia
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The denomination on this piece, "4 D" is British; the D is shorthand for the predecimal pence - so it could have been used in Britain itself, or in any one of the British colonies or dominions that also used pence. I just asked one of the token experts in my coin club about it. He said it's a fairly common "amusement machine" token, made overseas (apparently in Germany, if the websites are correct) but used extensively here in Australia, in "trade stimulators" and similar devices during the period such machines were legal here (roughly 1920-1950). The website you linked to shows a "Bajazzo" trade stimulator machine the tokens were originally made for, though whether it was exactly such a machine it would have been used on here in Australia, or something completely different, is impossible to tell now. This website shows another such machine, which the website author had refurbished and restored. Bajazzo was a "game of skill", rather than a "game of luck". The aim seems to have been to use the little control dial at the bottom of the box to move the clown back and forth, catching the tokens as they fell and dropping them down the prize chute. The stamped number "1210" on the token would have been used by the token manufacturer to identify the token's physical properties if replacements were required. 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
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Australia
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To clarify, this token was indeed made for use with the German made machines called "Bajazzo" or often for the English market as "Clown". Starting around 1912. The machine is played with a ball that if caught releases such a token, with various different amounts showing on the reverse. The stamped serial numbers were matched to each machine, so that the particular store the machine was being operated in knew that the tokens (being exchanged for cash) had been won from their machine. Very few Bajazzo or Clown machines have survived in Australia but a small number would have been operated here. They were a very popular machine in Europe and particularly in England where huge numbers were operated and many survive. I have about 100 Clown and Bajazzo tokens, at least 60 serial numbered with numbers as low as 666 up to 8001. Would love to find machine number 666, though imagine it was probably destroyed in some unexplained inferno!?
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New Member
Australia
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I've had three of the machines and was able to find a token in my collection just one serial number from a machine!
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Very cool. What would the cost to play have been? 1 pence?
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United Kingdom
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United States
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I thought I was the only one who had a Bajazzo token. But I am not.  Germany Bajazzo Game Token Obverse: BAJAZZO 7288 Reverse: The number "20" Brass, 17mm, 1.79gm  https://www.brianrxm.comThe Mysterious Egyptian Magic Coin Coins in Movies Coins on Television
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New Member
Canada
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I have a Bajazzo coin "7667" value 10 overstamped "2" as well as a "clown" coin w/ "2" can we assume that both these coins were for machines made in Leipzig Germany ?
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United Kingdom
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I thought I was the only one who had a Bajazzo token.
But I am not. I have found a few recently: Bajazzo 22 mm diameter Denomination 20 Vendors 1992, 7682 Denomination 2d Vendor 2098 Denomination 30 Vendor Blank Clown 22 mm diameter Denomination 2 Vendors 3473, 4917 |
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