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 Posted 12/01/2012  4:21 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add Angielczyk to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
I have just come across this token

It has the symbol of the Israeli Postal Authority on one side.

The other side is completely worn flat

At first I thought it was an old telephone token but it is not like any that I have known

Can anyone help please?

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Looks like a John Deere token.
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In most renderings of the John Deere logo, the deer's front legs are flexed; in some they are extended, like on this token, but in all, the deer's antlers angle forward. The swept-back antlers suggest an antelope, which made me think of the logo of the Chevrolet Impala. In that logo, though, both old and new versions, the animal's front legs seem always to be flexed.
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Nothing runs like a Deere.....and the women I approach.
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The modern Israel Post logo has a mcuh more stylized gazelle, as seen on their website. But older tokens do indeed bear this symbol, as seen on the one in this thread.

But with no markings on it except for the logo, it's not necessarily even anything numismatic. It could be from a piece of telephone machinery, or have been originally encased in something else entirely, with just the little gazelle badge intended to be visible.
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Hi. This is a telephone token used in the 50's... given to postal employees to use for calls...
There are some versions, one in red brass, this one with regular imprint and another with shallow imprint. Nothing out of the ordinary. It has a value of about 10-15 dollars.
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