Posted 09/24/2018 7:53 pm
It's for a public (outdoors) elevator, rather than an elevator in a building. The Lacerda Elevator in the city of Salvador has been a for-profit elevator since it was built in 1873, connecting the upper and lower parts of the city. It still charges 15 centavos (about 3½ US cents at current exchange rates) per trip. Presumably they used these tokens in a turnstile to control access to the elevator.
Here is a different-designed token from the same company for the same purpose, so they presumably used tokens for quite some time. Tokens would have been particularly handy during Brazil's inflationary period (roughly 1970-1995), when the price would have been constantly changing.
Here is a different-designed token from the same company for the same purpose, so they presumably used tokens for quite some time. Tokens would have been particularly handy during Brazil's inflationary period (roughly 1970-1995), when the price would have been constantly changing.
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