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Valued Member
Colombia
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Recently I got this piece in Colombia ,and I think is a well known token that has been " refurbished" to act like another token ( maybe with no clear or legal intentions ) Has somebody seen another example of this kind of metamorphosis ? Could you share information or thoughts with me ? Thanks a lot   |
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Valued Member
Canada
496 Posts |
Looks like an amusement arcade token that fits into a grooved push-in style of coin slot.
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Moderator
 United States
34397 Posts |
"If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
-----Ghanaian proverb
"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
-----King Adz
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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LUCHO, could we please see a view from the side? I think it has probably been made to fit a machine or a telephone. It has happened in a few countries that someone has set up a press to turn old tokens into telephone jetons.
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Valued Member
 Colombia
185 Posts |
Hello Alganbagerap : first at all, I have to tell you that you have very nice material at your ebay place .I include ,as you ask for , a side view of the " Refurbished " token .(Sorry Spence ,I donīt believed it was " waffled "....).Best  |
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Valued Member
Colombia
185 Posts |
The guy that sold me the bunch of coins and tokens where I found this " R " token was living in Ecuador and came recently to live in Colombia ( in Colombia ,as I know ,never were used telephone tokens with the final shape of this " R " token ) Best
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
2490 Posts |
Perfectly symmetrical, so almost certainly done by machine, and you don't set up a machine to form just one piece. It is made from a U. S. commercial token with no attempt to disguise it or give it a value. My first thought is that is a copy of an existing token meant to defraud a telephone or vending/gambling machine. And there is the problem, for although fichas Colombianas are a specialty of mine, I've never seen anything like this token.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Looks like the tokens used at driving ranges and golf courses around here to dispense range balls.
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
2490 Posts |
Yes, and those tokens probably have something like XYZ DRIVING RANGE stamped on them, so that the operators can check that nobody is using tokens from ABC DRIVING RANGE. It's the anonymity of the token and the re-use of an existing design that makes me wonder if it's a copy.
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