[PRCo] Re: 1922 Tokens

[Bob Rathke]

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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>