[PRCo] Re: 1922 Tokens

Bob Rathke bobrathke at comcast.net
Thu May 27 20:06:19 EDT 2004


Yes, large numbers of these 1922 car checks ("token"?) seem to be available.

I've told this story before, but in 1964, while wandering around downtown on
my lunch hour, I saw that the Banner Coin Shop on Fourth Avenue at
Smithfield had a bowl of foreign coins in the window with a sign, "Your
Choice - 5 Cents". I noticed that one of the coins was actually a PRC 1922
token, so I went inside, picked through the bowl and found about 20 more
tokens.  I bought all the tokens in the bowl for about $1.  The next day
when I went by the coin shop, I noticed that the sign on the bowl had been
changed to read, "Your choice - 25 cents."  But by that time, no tokens were
left.

A couple of years ago, the GM of the McKinney Ave. Transit Authority in
Dallas told me that at a DART scrap sale they bought a 55 gallon drum full
of 1950's Dallas trolley tokens.

Okay, who has the 55 gallon drum full of PRC 1922 tokens?

Bob 5/27/04

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Matt Barry" <mrb190+ at pitt.edu>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 11:19 AM
Subject: [PRCo] 1922 Tokens


> There must have been an enormous surplus of Pgh Railways tokens
> manufactured in 1922.   This is the only year I ever see on these coins
> posted on eBay and also the only coin I ever possessed, a gift from my
> Dad years ago.
>
>
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=3455&item=3914357377&
rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW
>
>




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