Silver_Fox
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I found this coin detecting in a park. It is a little smaller (28 MM) than a half but as thick. Shiny. Non ferrous. It has an A in a circle. It has 3 v cut grooves. Anyone have any idea what it is? Thanks in advace.
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It's bigger than all the other arcade tokens I have found unless it is proprietary to a specific one. Thanks.EDDE said:
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I've used similar style tokens (with the groves) in machines that dispense golf balls at driving ranges. . . although I would think they could also be adapted for arcade game machines as well.
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Just tidying up some blasts from the past (including some very ancient ones), largely for the benefit of anyone searching the site for information.
It’s a patented ‘high security token’, although I don’t know who filed the original patent and I believe it has now expired such that any one can make them. A number of companies sell them, including ‘e-service’ in the UK, for any kind of machine vending operation where a higher level of protection against fraud is desired (and note that they won’t sell to members of the public). That’s what the slots provide, by uniquely engaging with a mechanism in the coin-slot.
https://e-service.co.uk/product/27-8mm-high-security-token-000-keyway/
Suppliers can produce custom versions for particular uses and they have a wide variety of use, including for golf-ball vending machines like these from Wittek golf supply, who have them with coded letters from A to E:
https://www.wittekgolf.com/range-supplies/tokens?page=1
Here’s another, from Italy:
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/exonumia31972.html
It’s a patented ‘high security token’, although I don’t know who filed the original patent and I believe it has now expired such that any one can make them. A number of companies sell them, including ‘e-service’ in the UK, for any kind of machine vending operation where a higher level of protection against fraud is desired (and note that they won’t sell to members of the public). That’s what the slots provide, by uniquely engaging with a mechanism in the coin-slot.
https://e-service.co.uk/product/27-8mm-high-security-token-000-keyway/
Suppliers can produce custom versions for particular uses and they have a wide variety of use, including for golf-ball vending machines like these from Wittek golf supply, who have them with coded letters from A to E:
https://www.wittekgolf.com/range-supplies/tokens?page=1
Here’s another, from Italy:
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/exonumia31972.html
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