Help Identifying An Israeli Token | Telephone Token 1983

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weavus135 Pillar of the Community United States 539 Posts	Posted 05/20/2010 12:02 am not even sure where I got this. I know it is Israeli and it is a token of some type. I would love some additional info on it. Is it a transit token? from a specific town? any help is greatly appreciated thank you Identified - moved to Tokens forum - Sap Report this Post to the Staff

wd1040 Pillar of the Community United States 3098 Posts	Posted 05/20/2010 12:05 am Ha! I thought it was this when I read the title. It's an Israeli phone token from around the 60s or 70s. Report this Post to the Staff
thai-vic Pillar of the Community Thailand 1509 Posts	Posted 05/20/2010 12:33 am Reminds me of the good old bakelite phones they had in public call boxes when I was a kid (in Britain 1960s-70s). Basic cost of a call (in my time) was 4 pennies (pre-decimal) but (and please don't report me for fraud) if you dialled the number and, while the dial was returning to its original position, you tapped the (single) cradle up and down as many (or more) times than the individual number just dialled and, if you did it right, you'd get the call for free! When they were replaced with plastic dial phones the cradle had a left and right hand side and you just could not tap them at exactly the same time to get the free calls. Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16832 Posts	Posted 05/20/2010 01:51 am These tokens are actually dated, using the same Jewish calendar system you can find on the coins. The date is to either side of the running deer logo. This token dates from the year (5)743, which translates to 1983 AD. I understand that it's possible to collect a whole date series of them from the 1960s to the late 1980s. This website depicts three different dates. 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 Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16832 Posts	Posted 05/20/2010 02:03 am To add: this blog shows one of the telephones they were used in, and reports the local name for the telephone token is "asimon". 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 Report this Post to the Staff
weavus135 Pillar of the Community United States 539 Posts	Posted 05/20/2010 12:18 pm thank you all, especially for the 2 web pointers. Your knowledge and willingness to share it is, as always, fantastic. Report this Post to the Staff
Conder101 Bedrock of the Community United States 17884 Posts	Posted 05/21/2010 11:34 am I guess it has been so long now that people don't recognize a phone dial anymore. Report this Post to the Staff
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