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Valued Member
United States
336 Posts |
Anyone out there transit token collectors? I have been for a number of years. My interest perked by a collection left to me by my Grandfather. He had about 5 tokens hidden among a bunch of foreign coins that I liked their design.
About two weeks I was given about 15 more tokens by my neighbor who was going to throw them out. In there was a tax token from the World War era, very cool. Its neat to see these tokens and they all have their own story to tell.
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Rest in Peace
United States
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EconBrony, there is a big interest. If you can post a picture this would help.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
4227 Posts |
I've always found them interesting, but never delved too deeply into collecting them. I know I have more than a few floating around though, especially local (Atlantic Canadian) tokens.
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Valued Member
 United States
336 Posts |
Ahh very cool chequer, if you get a chance you should snap a couple pictures of them. I'd love to see them.
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Valued Member
United States
336 Posts |
@ bpoc1 I have already identified and have a good idea of value of my current tokens. Their all pretty common. Just trying to get a discussion, get pics rolling, and see who else collects them on the forums like the Wood Grain Toned post I did :P
I will post some pics of my tokens soon :D
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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 Tokens once used by motorists to pay their way across the Harbour Bridge in Saint John will soon be helping school children learn arithmetic. The 250,000 tokens, no longer in use on the bridge, will be handed out to schools in Charlotte County where they will serve as counters for elementary school children. The Saint John Harbour Bridge Authority stopped accepting tokens in January, after 40 years of motorists using them to pay their passage across the bridge. Drivers now toss 50 cents into the basket or buy an electronic pass in order to cross the bridge linking West Saint John to the rest of the city and communities to the east. Ken Anthony, the bridge authority general manager, said he wasn't sure what to do with the stacks and stacks of obsolete tokens. There was talk, he said, of selling the tokens for scrap and also proposals from local artists to use the tokens in artwork. "Most [proposals] revolved around making some kind of sculpture or mural, or some kind of lasting tribute to the token," Anthony said. But, he said, there was a cost tied to those proposals. Grade 1 teacher Debi Adams at Milltown Elementary School in St. Stephen suggested the cheaper option of giving them to the schools to help children with their math lessons. "You can use them, obviously, for counting. If you're adding or subtracting, or estimating, or measuring the mass of things, or how long something is — it's just endless, the ideas that I'm sure teachers can come up with," Adams said. Anthony, who grew up in nearby Campobello Island, loved the idea. So a one-tonne truckload of tokens was dropped off at the Charlotte County School District this past spring, and the tokens will make their way into children's hands in the fall. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-b...ols-1.751484 |
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United States
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@ Harmonica
Very cool story! Thanks for sharing! Very nice token too :)
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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This piece was introduced in '68 & retired in '08. It was demonetized in '11.
I cant really think of an instance where retired pieces have been used in this fashion. I believe they have a rarity value of 96-98.
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Canada
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I believe they have a rarity value of 96-98. The Numista rarity scale of 1 - 100, based on the number of Numista users who own a particular object, is worthless for exonumia. If nobody owns something, the rarity index is 100. If one person owns it, the index jumps to 97. If two, it jumps to 95, if three, 94... it's logarithmic, so only when the number of coin/token owners is in the double or triple digits does that rarity scale have any meaning. (A rating of 96 or 98 is actually impossible.) So, a Numista rarity index of "97" means one thing - "I've just entered this token in the Numista catalog, and nobody else lives in New Brunswick." For the record, I am one of the four people who have this token logged in their Numista collections. http://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces59319.html |
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United States
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Having worked in schools, for 35 years. You can beat on one sure thing. as soon As the kiddies and teachers get their fingers on them, (one tonne) they will be flooding the market!
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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At the end of one of my visits to my LCS I asked if he had any BU bridge tokens for sale - he went behind the counter and handed me these no charge - I want to crack them, but the paper roll is neat too.  |
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United States
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At the end of one of my visits to my LCS I asked if he had any BU bridge tokens for sale - he went behind the counter and handed me these no charge That's a neat gift from the LCS, it appears that after passing them out to the teachers that wanted some they dispersed the rest.  |
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Valued Member
United States
336 Posts |
very cool chequer! I don't think I'd be able to break the roll open either. the roll is very cool :) I'll have to watch ebay for these tokens |
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Rest in Peace
United States
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I've got about a dozen or so railway tokens. I tried to take some photos but they refused to cooperate unless I free them from their 2X2's.
I hope to be able to free them so I can share some pics sometime soon.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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If you want to hold off EconBrony one will eventually show up here for nothing and I will mail it too you, it may be a wee bit as the second I start looking for something is the second the whole province dries up with it.
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Valued Member
United States
336 Posts |
@ Harmonica
That would be amazing :) I am in no rush, I will gladly wait:D
@Buddy
We look forward to seeing your pics :)
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