Telephone Tokens: The Forerunner of the Telephone Card

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Telephone Tokens: The Forerunner of the Telephone Card
by Christopher Batio for the January 10, 1995 issue of Numismatic Review. All rights reserved to Numismatic Review.

Before there were telephone cards to collect and use, telephone tokens were a widespread medium of exchange for people wanting to talk with someone across the ocean or across the street.

These brass nickel-sized tokens were once widely used in Europe, Japan, and South America, and are still used today in places such as Turkey, Hungary, and Israel.

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An Introduction to Telephone Tokens with a flavor of Canada
(An article as it appeared in The Canadian Numismatic Journal, September, 1995) By Robert Gilbert

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