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I came across this curious token in a box of 1980s/1990s tokens from an auction in Adelaide Australia. It's for the Dazzeland Myer Centre amusement complex at the top floor of the mall in Adelaide. It was opened in 1991 and closed in 1998. The ride token is for the rollercoaster on the top level. It was very noisy and drove away shops from the top floors, and was eventually closed down. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DazzelandWhat makes this token interesting is "Myer" is spelled incorrectly as "Myre". I cannot find this error on Google, and ChatGPT knows nothing about it either. Is this an early prototype? Is it an error? Is it a counterfeit? It would be unusual for someone to go to the effort of counterfeiting tokens for a rollercoaster in the 1990s, but not impossible. These tokens are very common so they don't have enough value for a counterfeiter today to make copies. My token is brass instead of copper, and a few grams lighter than in Numista's catalog: https://en.numista.com/411295My token is 26mm diameter, 5.7g. The photos are a tad too bright. Comments please. Thank you.    |
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The Dazzeland tokens with the mis-spelling "Myre" instead of "Myer" are a well-documented variety - the only Dazzeland token I own is the one with the mis-spelling. They were presumably the first batch of tokens ordered, an error which was corrected in subsequent batches. I'm not sure which of the varieties is the more common, but if they ordered more than two batches of tokens, then the "correct spelling" variety is probably the more common one.
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The Dazzeland tokens with the mis-spelling "Myre" instead of "Myer" are a well-documented variety - the only Dazzeland token I own is the one with the mis-spelling. Thank you for that Sap. I searched online but couldn't find a reference or image for the incorrect spelling. It's probably catalogued in books that are not published online. I have run into this problem before when looking for a mid 19th century Crystal Palace medallion: Those with access to paper catalogues found it instantly, yet online there were no references to it (until my thread on Coin Community was created). |
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The April 2012 issue of the Queensland Numismatic Society magazine has a brief article outlining the major varieties of Dazzeland tokens. There are three listed in the article: the two under discussion here, and a third made of gold-coloured plastic where "Dazzeland" is written twice in spiral form.
The specifications given in the article do indicate that the "Myre" type is slightly smaller and thinner than the "Myer" type. Both types are listed as being made of "brass", but are probably actually brass-plated copper - which was a fairly normal composition for Australian arcade tokens, and which is why many surviving tokens (of both types) have a very coppery appearance. The author speculates that the "Myre" type, being smaller and lighter, might actually be the later of the two issues.
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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Heh, I said I couldn't find a reference to a Myre token online, but after some more digging I found one on Reddit. I cannot post the link here as it's banned for some reason.
It doesn't help that the title of the Reddit post has the correct spelling in it...
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Very interesting!  |
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Interesting find! Errers and Varietys.
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The April 2012 issue of the Queensland Numismatic Society magazine has a brief article outlining the major varieties of Dazzeland tokens. There are three listed in the article: the two under discussion here, and a third made of gold-coloured plastic where "Dazzeland" is written twice in spiral form. Thank you for that info Sap. Very interesting. The token I have is thinner and lighter than the properly spelled version. I also had a blue plastic Dazzeland token that I sold earlier this year on ebay, but I can't find my photo of it at the moment. It looked really cheap and was probably used towards the end of Dazzeland's life. It had no paint on it, but that could have been removed by someone. Edited by ClusterCoin
11/20/2025 9:54 pm
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Posted 11/20/2025 07:15 am
